2048
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1927-12-21
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Letter
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Reporting activities of the Academy: free-lance actors' contract completed, technicians examining improved methods of li...
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2087
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1928-01-01
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Journal/magazine article
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"Shall We Condemn the Movies?" An interview with Hays. No source identified.
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406
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1928-01-04
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Memo
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This document illustrates the ambitions that the MPPDA cherishes for the Church and Drama Association CDA before their r...
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1471
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1928-01-04
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Letter
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McGee, a friend of Hays, is developing a trackless train idea, like one recently done, that could be used for publicity ...
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1304
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1928-01-04
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Letter
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Harry Warner to Hays, denouncing advertising for Woman of Affairs and a few other companies as well. Hays writes to comp...
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415
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1928-01-11
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Miscellaneous
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The English picture Dawn (about Edith Cavell), produced by Wilcox, is offensive to the German government, so the MPPDA h...
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1458
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1928-01-17
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Correspondence
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Demonstrations of incandescent lighting by the Technicians Branch of the Academy. These demonstrations are of new techno...
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421
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1928-01-18
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Resumes
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"Memo for Mr. Hays" on the development of the SRC. Joy cites instances of his successes, and those occasions when the SR...
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392
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1928-01-30
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Pamphlet, letter
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'Memorandum in re Brookhart Bill." Pettijohn sent this to Hays for his opinion, saying it was imperative that something ...
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472
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1928-03-01
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Press release
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The MPPDA replies to charges of pro-Hoover political bias in newsreels, instigated by Frank Rembusch ('Mr. Hays operates...
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497
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1928-03-01
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Correspondence
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The difficulties involved in getting French approval of The Foreign Legion, and the necessity of achieving such approval...
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1488
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1928-03-06
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Miscellaneous
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Information regarding the introduction of cultural courses on motion pictures into colleges. The first such course, on p...
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494
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1928-03-23
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Letter
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Universal has doubts about aspects of the scenario of Grease Paint, which it proposes to film. They refer the question ...
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419
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1928-04-02
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Letter
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Lott, former Department of Justice official, is out for blood over block-booking and the Film Boards of Trade and "their...
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400
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1928-05-07
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Letter
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In part: "Concerted effort on the part of all in this office [the AMPP] to line everybody up solidly in order that there...
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3239
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1928-05-10
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Correspondence
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Walsh alleges plagiarism by Paramount Lasky in a Bebe Daniels film. Paramount denies it. Walsh persists, claiming he m...
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2084
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1928-05-23
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Letter
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Reporting meetings relating to a cameraman's code of ethics.
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428
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1928-05-24
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Memo
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Milliken notes tendencies in the kinds of censorable material currently being produced. Despite gruesomeness, offensive...
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493
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1928-05-28
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Correspondence
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Universal try to get an English ban on Phantom of the Opera lifted. Universal representative Bryson, friend of Herron, i...
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483
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1928-06-01
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Memo
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Specific censorship problems in the dialogue of the new talkies from Warner Bros.
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