1941 The Film Daily Yearbook of Motion Pictures

1941 The Film Daily Yearbook of Motion Pictures ~ Hardcover Book,  The Film Daily, 1941 1064 pp with advertising illustrations throughout. Covers releases from every studio, academy awards, company personnel, players credits, international productions, labor organizations etc. Text is clean and unmarked. Burgundy embossed leatherette boards with gold raised titles , thick quarto, 16.5 cms x 24 cms x 5.7 cms, condition: as new.

Probably no 12-month span in the motion picture's history of more than five decades has been so replete with momentous developments at home and abroad, both within and without the industry, affecting its future as that which closed on December 31, 1940.--from the editor's foreword. 

The book covers trade news, film reviews, financial updates, information on court cases and union difficulties, and equipment breakthroughs.