1409
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1927-04-13
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Correspondence
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Concerns the problems inherent n percentage booking - the estimate of the distributors' percentage of ticket sales - and...
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1408
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1927-04-11
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Miscellaneous
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An nation-wide experiment in the use of motion pictures in classrooms is to be undertaken to discover the effect, if any...
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323
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1927-04-08
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Memo
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'Our effort to organize the interest of various nationwide groups, like the YMCA, parent-teacher associations, Women's C...
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334
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1927-04-08
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Report
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The secretary at Universal (signature unclear - possibly Hughes) sends DeBra a list of job descriptions of corporation e...
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1404
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1927-04-08
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Memo
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A memo stating that the new name of Famous Players is Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation. Note there is no hyphen.
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320
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1927-04-06
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Statement
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Triumphant statement by the lawyer responsible for prosecuting the company of "Sex," followed by a statement on the case...
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318
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1927-04-01
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Article
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'Motion Pictures and Their Censors," by Hays, in American Review of Reviews. This is followed by other articles from AR...
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363
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1927-04-01
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Telegram
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'Notice is hereby given that there will be a meeting of the Board of Directors at four o'clock next Wednesday April twen...
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2091
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1927-04-01
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Journal/magazine article
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"Motion Pictures and Their Censors" -- edited version of April 1927 article by Hays in American Review of Reviews
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342
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1927-03-31
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Letter
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The Pasadena clubs have taken a stand in favour of censorship. The California Federation contacts them to explain why t...
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1393
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1927-03-31
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Miscellaneous
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Information regarding a dispute between MGM and Monument Theatre Corp. Includes correspondence and court summons and co...
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329
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1927-03-26
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Letter & enclosures
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Business problems posed to Harvard business students, based upon the film industry, and specifically relating to Famous ...
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3378
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1927-03-25
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Miscellaneous
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Documents pertaining to meetings of Sales managers discussing zoning plans for the exhibition of first run films in St ...
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1386
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1927-03-23
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Essay/manuscript
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Entitled "Extra! Extra!". MacCulloch discusses the thousands of young men and women who besiege the studios every year h...
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314
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1927-03-17
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Memo
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"Questions in House of Commons Regarding Motion Pictures in Canada."
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327
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1927-03-16
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Press release
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'Youngest of the Arts Recognized by Oldest of American Universities." The Harvard film library is being established "in...
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330
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1927-03-15
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Transcript of address
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Hays' address to the Harvard Business School
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1382
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1927-03-15
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Report
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'Report for the year of the conservation activities of the Hays organisation" (1927).Like the other documents of this ki...
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331
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1927-03-14
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Transcript of address
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Joseph Kennedy's address to the Harvard Business School. He emphasises the fact that "motion pictures build buying habi...
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378
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1927-03-10
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Letter
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The National Board of Review (NBR) is putting together a picture which includes some German war pictures which the Consu...
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1396
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1927-03-10
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Various
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Several individual pieces on MPPDA membership issues. Inquiries about membership, association approaching organisations,...
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319
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1927-03-08
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Essay
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'The Theatre and the Law," by William Gibbs McAdoo. 26 pages for and against -- mainly against -- censorship, looki...
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328
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1927-03-05
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Press release
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'Motion Picture Course Inaugurated by Harvard." Harvard Business School is holding a series of lectures on the film ind...
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1398
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1927-03-03
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Memo
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Statement regarding the use of motion pictures in the Navy. Films are exhibited on Navy ships and also delivered to sold...
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1411
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1927-03-03
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Correspondence
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Correspondence regarding the problem (for distributors) of poster "renters" or exchanges. Distributors are losing motion...
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316
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1927-03-01
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Court documents
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This brief and argument of Vitagraph, which has been denied a permit to show a controversial film, musters all the resou...
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332
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1927-03-01
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Memo
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Instructions to speakers on the motion picture industry as to the type of material required, especially regarding case s...
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382
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1927-03-01
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Various
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There has been some insensitivity on Warners part in their relations with the War Department, which recently lent them s...
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1407
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1927-03-01
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Letter and reply
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Mr Purcell believes Vitaphone infringes his patent, which he calls Realistic Moving Pictures. Hess replies, instructing ...
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1413
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1927-03-01
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Correspondence
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The beginnings of a discourse on the acquiring of rights in regard to "talking movies." Should they be acquired and incl...
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348
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1927-02-28
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Letter
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The FTC seeks to clarify the status of the MPPDA in relation to "the inquiry into open price associations."
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1402
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1927-02-23
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Miscellaneous
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Information concerning the distribution of non-theatrical films following the topic's discussion at the Federal Trade Pr...
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1380
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1927-02-20
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Letter
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Letter to Hays concerning Famous Players-Lasky's failure to uphold the conditions of a contract with the H. Schoenstadt ...
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3238
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1927-02-20
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Memo
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Planning for negotiations with Authors League -- aim "to establish and maintain direct and ethical relations with author...
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2062
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1927-02-19
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Correspondence
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Correspondence relating to musical copyright issues in Canada
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307
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1927-02-12
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Memo
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'Bad Title and Advertising "Dynamite.'" A rational plea for a more restrained approach to titles and advertising in vie...
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1394
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1927-02-08
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Proposal
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A copy of the plan for, and purposes of, the Motion Picture Artists and Film Fans' Federation. Three page document outli...
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2055
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1927-02-03
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Minutes
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Minutes of three meetings of the organization committee of the Academy, held between February and March 1927
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1387
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1927-02-02
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Statement
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Statement concerning the first annual report of the Central Casting Bureau. Included a table of figures demonstrating th...
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356
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1927-02-01
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Journal/magazine article
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'The Compensatory Function of the Movies," by Harvey C. Lehman and Paul A. Witty, from Journal of Applied Psychology. T...
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374
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1927-02-01
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Correspondence
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The Protestants find the depiction of the depiction of a Protestant minister in Flesh and the Devil to be offensive. "I...
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1385
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1927-01-25
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Miscellaneous
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Fair amount of information concerning specific disputes over actors contracts. Included here are Sheridan Ross (and Path...
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1379
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1927-01-20
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Report
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Notes on the Industrial Relations Program. Major theme is the irregularity of employment within the motion picture indus...
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1422
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1927-01-15
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Correspondence
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Large amount of correspondence planning the Conference of the Committee of the Theatre Owners Chamber of Commerce in NY....
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357
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1927-01-07
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Report
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'Preliminary Report of Psychological Research on Motion Pictures Conducted in Columbia University in 1926." This resear...
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2059
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1927-01-05
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Miscellaneous
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Documents and articles on arbitration in the motion picture industry
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3227
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1927-01-05
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Pamphlet
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Pamphlet by Metzger on The Practical Operation of Boards of Arbitration in the Motion Picture Industry.
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380
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1927-01-01
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Miscellaneous
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A collection of articles by Lamar Trotti. Of special interest are his articles about the use of motion pictures in the ...
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1365
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1927-01-01
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Journal/magazine article
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"A Study of the Motion Picture Preferences of the Horace Mann High Schools" by Mary Allen Abbott, in the journal Teache...
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1421
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1927-01-01
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Correspondence
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The MPPDA is inquiring on behalf of the Wolverine Film Co. about a Mr F. Herrick Herrick, formally with Tec-Art Studios...
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