ID Date Type Description Summary
2020 1923-03-26 MPPDA Board resolution Reaffirmation of purpose, passed at first Annual Meeting, noting rejection of state censorship in 23 states, as indicati...
3204 1923-03-26 Resolution Printed copy of Resolution of reaffirmation of determination "to establish and maintain the highest possible moral and a...
2019 1923-03-24 Memo Resume of CPR activities to date: has met 11 times; Joy's correspondence amounts to 35,652 letters; he has held 500 conf...
28 1923-03-23 Letter Summary of the work of the Public Relations Committee since its inception: in a brief resume prepared by Joy, he claims ...
81 1923-03-22 Report Committee has 78 members of 62 organisations with combined membership of 60 million. Executive Committee 29 members of 7...
80 1923-03-20 Record of meeting Preview of The Covered Wagon. Hamner claims that The Covered Wagon is evidence of the good work of the Hays office. Joh...
61 1923-03-17 Correspondence There is a body of correspondence concerning the appropriation of films for exhibition on shipping lines. This includes...
3259 1923-03-12 Newspaper article Typescript of newspaper report from Cedar Valley Times, Vinton, Iowa, March 12, 1923, reporting on a speech by Rev. W.G....
27 1923-03-10 Record of meeting Restatement of Declaration of Purpose; clarification of the role of the Executive Secretary; appointment of 11 new sub-c...
3205 1923-03-09 By-laws By-Laws of the Film Board of Trade Relating to Arbitration
3206 1923-03-09 Contract Uniform Exhibition Contract
26 1923-03-06 Letter The Committee of the National Education Association on Visual Education accepts the proposal of the Producers put forwar...
120 1923-03-06 Record of meeting Proceedings at the Joint Legislation hearing on the proposed repeal of censorship legislation in the State of New York. ...
3309 1923-03-03 Article on uniform contract. Non-MPPDA members, including American Releasing Corporation, are adopting it.
3308 1923-03-01 Correspondence Arranging meetings with exhibitors
3310 1923-03-01 Correspondence Correspondence with exhibitors in March 1923
37 1923-02-27 Letter Concern re proposed copyright legislation. Includes acknowledgements of earlier letters from Swarts in December 1922.
3304 1923-02-27 Memo suggesting that the reason for Cohens attack on the contract, and recruiting of state MPTOs protests against it, is that...
3305 1923-02-25 Letter complaint for a small Wisconsin exhibitor that the contract doesn't help him, since it does not require the distributor ...
3306 1923-02-24 Letter complaint from a small Wisconsin exhibitor that the contract doesn't help him, since it does not require the distributor...
3307 1923-02-24 Statement supporting the contract: "For the first time in the history of the motion picture industry, commercial relations betwee...
131 1923-02-15 Memo Response to criticism of the Uniform Contract which came to the Film Daily from the Minnesota Theatre Owners Association...
24 1923-02-09 Miscellaneous Summary of the various actions that members of the Committee intend to take about the Arbuckle affair. Most intend to is...
2018 1923-02-09 Memo Joy has not replied to letters about Arbuckle. FPL has reiterated its position that it is not going to release any Arbuc...
25 1923-02-08 Record of meeting Putting the Arbuckle case to rest; promotion of the motion picture as an aid to school instruction; international cooper...
23 1923-01-31 Letter Hays attempts to put the Arbuckle case to rest with the Committee: notifies Hamner of Arbuckle's decision not to appear ...
79 1923-01-31 Letter Arbuckle: Zukor confirms to Joy that Famous Players-Lasky (FPL) will not release pictures - Arbuckle to direct.
2 1923-01-04 Press release Press release concerning Public Relations Committee meeting, containing the resolution on the Arbuckle matter taken at t...
22 1923-01-04 Record of meeting The meeting takes place in a mood of crisis over the Arbuckle case, and progressively becomes a forum for statements of ...
76 1923-01-04 Record of meeting Hays retreats from his position on Arbuckle, suggesting he is merely removing himself as an obstacle to Arbuckle's worki...
77 1923-01-04 Record of meeting Arbuckle. Hays explanation of his position and intentions.
78 1923-01-04 Record of meeting Corrected copy of minutes of Committee on Public Relations meeting and press release of resolutions passed.
3256 1923-01-03 Statement ANNUAL MESSAGE OF GOVERNOR SMITH TO THE NEW YORK LEGISLATURE, JANUARY 3, 1923. "Censorship is not in keeping with our id...
3257 1923-01-03 Pamphlet Pamphlet protesting New York Clean Books bill
3283 1922-12-31 Memo Proposed contract formulated in England may prove suggestive here
3284 1922-12-31 By-laws Draft of by-laws on Board of Arbitration.
20 1922-12-23 Miscellaneous Summary of responses by committee members (including resignations) to Hays' report on Arbuckle case; miscellaneous perso...
21 1922-12-23 Telegram Hays explains his controversial statement on the Arbuckle case, which advocated Christian charity rather than outright c...
74 1922-12-23 Memo Public relations committee opinions on Arbuckle case - committee not consulted before Hays action to reinstate Arbuckle ...
75 1922-12-23 Resolution Committee on Public Relations advises Hays not to permit release of any Arbuckle picturesRESOLUTION on Arbuckle, circula...
3218 1922-12-23 Letter Hays has agreed not to permit release of any Arbuckle pictures.
3267 1922-12-23 Telegram RESOLUTION on ArbuckleThe Committee on Public Relations, having received from Mr. Hays a report on the Arbuckle matter i...
19 1922-12-22 Telegram Hamner expresses his concern that Public Relations Committee was not consulted before Hays commented on Arbuckle case.
73 1922-12-22 Telegram Joy advises release of statement saying Arbuckle will not re-enter industry until the matter has been discussed with Com...
72 1922-12-20 Report religious films -- "there is great need for improvement in the purely religious films designed for use in churches." M...
2017 1922-12-20 Report Report of Sub-Committee of Committee on Public Relations, makes proposals about adaptation, need for improvement in reli...
60 1922-12-16 Letter Concerns the successful introduction of movies on a train trip from Chicago to St. Louis. Contains a description of the...
18 1922-12-12 Record of meeting The question of classifying films following preview: sub-committee formed to consider what action to take. (Their report...
36 1922-12-09 Letter Seeks comment on the copyright legislation. Includes a copy of the bill itself.
35 1922-12-06 Letter Re new copyright legislation. If we become members of the Berne Copyright Union it would result in a tremendous saving t...
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