3001
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1939-12-19
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Letter
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Sending Breen correspondence (12-1928 to 12-1929) regarding travel films made about Washington -- a service has been don...
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3003
|
1939-12-11
|
Letter
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Regarding travel films made about Washington -- a service has been done for the state, could this information be used as...
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2977
|
1939-10-27
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Memo
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The Pennsylvania State Censor Board has radically increased its approval seal fees.
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1206
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1939-10-25
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Memo
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Several lawsuits testing the legality of PCA enforcement are pending. Hess wants to clarify the status of nudity in tra...
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3041
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1939-10-11
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Letter
|
Operation of American motion picture companies in the United Kingdom.
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1220
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1939-10-06
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Memo
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"Re: Statement of Mr. Schenck at your Tuesday meeting," denigrating Herron's work, suggesting he deals with "clerks" in ...
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3005
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1939-09-23
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Memo
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Sending Hays a copy of the resolution regarding nudity and the production code -- nudity of in the form of natives from ...
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3014
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1939-09-16
|
Letter
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Regarding Hays' recent letter on the importance of not allowing propaganda to be produced by the industry in relation to...
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1202
|
1939-09-15
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Letter
|
With the onset of war in Europe, Hays reiterates his position that the motion pictures are primarily entertainment and t...
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3015
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1939-09-15
|
Open letter
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With the onset of war in Europe, Hays reiterates his position that the motion pictures are primarily entertainment and t...
|
3010
|
1939-09-06
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Memo
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Fears concerning crime and horror films. Since explaining to the producers the seriousness of the situation of crime and...
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3011
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1939-08-07
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Memo
|
Current crop of productions classified as crime-horror films. In the first five days of August, eleven new crime film sc...
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3012
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1939-08-05
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Memo
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The breakdown of the number of crime-horror films submitted to the PCA -- Warner Bros. has submitted fourteen during the...
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3027
|
1939-07-11
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Report
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McCormick of RKO and Gillham of Paramount were not impressed with staging a celebration of the motion pictures' Golden J...
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2984
|
1939-06-30
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Memo
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List of distributing companies and the numbers of private screenings each held.
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3029
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1939-06-29
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Memo
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CBS and NBC are planning short wave broadcasts to Europe and South America. Considered to be an important asset to the m...
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1205
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1939-06-24
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Letter
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Hoover asks whether he should participate in a series of filmed interviews planned by Eugene Lyons.
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3031
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1939-06-20
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Memo
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Regarding meeting of the Advertising Advisory Committee -- for the purpose of discussing the upcoming short wave broadca...
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3032
|
1939-06-20
|
Memo
|
From W.T. Regards the upcoming short wave broadcasts -- industry excited about the publicity. NBC slightly more organiz...
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3173
|
1939-06-02
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Memo
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Asking for a further extension of MGM's agreement to the resolution of 3 July 1934 for the payment of a penalty for viol...
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2997
|
1939-04-13
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Letter
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Thanking Nizer for sending information regarding privacy rights.
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3019
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1939-04-12
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Letter
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In regard to the resolution on PCA fees for reissues -- Hays feels the fee should be set at $25.00.
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2998
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1939-04-10
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Letter
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Sending Hays pamphlet on privacy rights -- a new branch of law.
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3039
|
1939-04-06
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Memo
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Short wave broadcasts to Europe -- free time has been offered by NBC and CBS for a promotional show for the motion pictu...
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3062
|
1939-03-22
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Letter
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Twentieth Century-Fox is proposing to make a film about the life and work of Brigham Young -- the Church of Jesus Christ...
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1215
|
1939-03-10
|
Letter
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Harmon first suggests to Hays the separation of the administrative and advisory functions of the PCA, in order to clarif...
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2974
|
1939-03-01
|
Memo
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Reporting a radio broadcast discussion of censorship -- Harry Brandt denounced motion picture censorship as vicious and ...
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2991
|
1939-02-28
|
Letter
|
Sending information to the Board of Directors prior to meeting - motion pictures in education, program of the Advisory ...
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1203
|
1939-02-03
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Letter
|
Includes 2 memoranda re the pedagogic enterprises directed by Mark A. May: the history and development of the project us...
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2927
|
1938-12-20
|
Memo
|
Financial position of PCA -- there is a deficit.
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2311
|
1938-12-15
|
Letter
|
The Institute of Human Relations, Yale University, and its work on the educational values of short films. It expects it...
|
2908
|
1938-12-15
|
Letter
|
Arranging quarterly meeting of Board of Directors -- also wage and hour matter agreed upon (not specified).
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2909
|
1938-12-15
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Telegram
|
Arranging quarterly meeting of Board of Directors -- also wage and hour matter agreed upon (not specified).
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2910
|
1938-12-15
|
Telegram
|
Wage and hours matter agreed upon -- no specific details given.
|
2928
|
1938-12-13
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Memo
|
Memo supporting the proposed resolution that the fee charged for submission and approval by the PCA will be the same for...
|
2958
|
1938-12-10
|
Correspondence
|
Letters informing member companies of the cooperation between the industry and educators regarding the use of motion pic...
|
1181
|
1938-11-30
|
Memo
|
Spyros Skouras has been complaining to Palfreyman about double-billing, which has escalated in some cases to 3 or 4 movi...
|
2933
|
1938-11-23
|
Memo
|
Almost all the studios now have a boys gang series -- this trend is worrying as they do not adhere to the general princi...
|
2922
|
1938-11-22
|
Memo
|
Reliance Pictures is finishing up but Reliance vice-president Ed Small is forming Ed Small Productions -- can MPPDA memb...
|
1201
|
1938-11-10
|
Memo
|
Re Motion Picture's Greatest Year Advertising campaign. While direct box-office results are hard to prove, this was eff...
|
2937
|
1938-10-20
|
Letter
|
The PCA charges will be waived for the MGM two reel short The World Is Ours -- the film was made as part of the industry...
|
2938
|
1938-10-18
|
Letter
|
Breen is suggesting that PCA charges should be waived for the MGM two reel short The World Is Ours -- the film was made ...
|
2901
|
1938-10-14
|
Report
|
Another copy of the 1937 report of the Advisory Committee on Education in Motion Pictures.
|
2924
|
1938-09-27
|
Memo
|
Hays has spoken with James Stahlman (publisher of the Nashville Banner) about the United Press service situation.
|
2925
|
1938-09-26
|
Memo
|
Informing Hays of updates in the James Stahlman situation -- includes the MPPDA file on Stahlman.
|
2940
|
1938-09-16
|
Memo
|
Regarding fees for PCA services -- should the fees for cheaply produced features be higher than they are and should ther...
|
1188
|
1938-09-01
|
Letter
|
An official sponsorship deal, involving the financing of an entertainment film by Lucky Strike cigarettes, is proposed b...
|
1189
|
1938-07-28
|
Miscellaneous
|
Concern about Selznick's plan to make a movie of the Titanic disaster (directed by Hitchcock) because of the probable Br...
|
2912
|
1938-07-19
|
Memo
|
Deciding on the Grand National picture -- does Hays want Herron to be there?
|
1216
|
1938-07-11
|
Various
|
The question has arisen as to how to deal with war-related films with ideological import. The question of PCA jurisdict...
|
2918
|
1938-07-01
|
Leaflet
|
"Film Industry Ever Seeking Improvement" by Will Hays -- there is no date or source but an obvious publicity push in wha...
|
2913
|
1938-06-16
|
Letter
|
Arranging the continuation of a meeting of the Board of Directors.
|
1208
|
1938-06-15
|
Miscellaneous
|
General alarm about the increasing number of movies featuring crime, horror, and violence generally. Analysis of this t...
|
2899
|
1938-06-14
|
Correspondence
|
Small file on the discussions between the Advisory Committee on Education in Motion Pictures and the studios regarding t...
|
3057
|
1938-04-28
|
Letter
|
Asking for the use of Paramount films by the Teaching Film Custodians, Inc. It seems the licensing agreement is not as e...
|
2945
|
1938-04-06
|
Letter
|
The issue of PCA approved and non-PCA approved films appearing together in the one program.
|
1196
|
1938-03-16
|
Correspondence
|
Hays asks Breen to separate the procedure of governing Code enforcement, which is enforceable, and advice on industry po...
|
3191
|
1938-03-16
|
Correspondence
|
Hays asks Breen to separate the procedure of governing Code enforcement, which is enforceable, and advice on industry po...
|
2897
|
1938-01-26
|
Memo
|
Relating to the Advertising Code Resolution (12 January 1938) -- Hess is reworking it. Included here is another copy of ...
|
2951
|
1938-01-20
|
Memo
|
Regarding the proposed resolution ensuring PCA approved and non approved films are not exhibited or advertised together.
|
2903
|
1938-01-18
|
Letter
|
Giving permission for the Educational Films pictures that have been approved by the Advisory Committee on Education in M...
|
2906
|
1938-01-12
|
Memo
|
Fox are concerned over the production of "Goofytone News" by Columbia as it bears too great a resemblance to "Fox Moviet...
|
2904
|
1938-01-10
|
Letter
|
Advising companies about the work of the Advisory Committee on Education in Motion Pictures and the desire to establish ...
|
2844
|
1938-01-05
|
Letter
|
Asking for any further advice regarding the situation with Charlie Chaplin and Fred Futter -- Futter intends to place Ch...
|
2846
|
1937-12-31
|
Letter
|
Sending Hays the information regarding the situation with Charlie Chaplin and Fred Futter -- Futter intends to place Cha...
|
1180
|
1937-12-31
|
Letter
|
Hays asks for assistance in his efforts to have the level of customs duties in Argentina reduced. There is an enormous ...
|
2895
|
1937-12-23
|
Letter
|
Outlining the meeting of the Will Rogers Memorial Commission and the work undertaken by the Commission. Includes a file ...
|
2851
|
1937-11-19
|
Letter, article
|
Sending Hays an article calling for an end to double feature screenings that will be published in an upcoming edition of...
|
3140
|
1937-11-15
|
Memos
|
Arising from a plan of Walter Lantz Productions (the company making Universal cartoons) to produce a one-reel picture fo...
|
2882
|
1937-10-21
|
Letter
|
Sending Breen yet another copy of the Resolution of Uniform Interpretation, Resolution regarding the submission of scrip...
|
2866
|
1937-10-15
|
Letter
|
Asking members to familiarize themselves with the enclosed information suggesting a similar Act to the Guffey Act for th...
|
2860
|
1937-10-14
|
Letter
|
Presenting the report of the Advisory Committee on Motion Pictures in Education - all very positive.
|
2834
|
1937-10-13
|
Correspondence
|
Twentieth Century-Fox is distributing the Principal Pictures' film Tarzan's Revenge and wants the company to ensure the ...
|
1163
|
1937-10-13
|
Memo
|
Revised procedure for handling appeals from decisions of PCA.
|
1164
|
1937-10-13
|
Memo
|
Rejection of the WB short "Clean Pastures" as a travesty of religion and the "deepest religious emotions in the hearts o...
|
2859
|
1937-10-12
|
Letter
|
Sending the report of the Advisory Committee on Motion Pictures in Education to members.
|
2862
|
1937-10-05
|
Memo
|
Outlines the situation of all member companies in relation to the motion pictures in education short subject programs - ...
|
2863
|
1937-09-29
|
Letter
|
Asking for attendance at a meeting with the Advisory Committee on Motion Pictures in Education - there are a couple of r...
|
2839
|
1937-09-07
|
Letter
|
Relating to the issue of advertising and stars who are loaned out to other studios. These stars can not be advertised as...
|
2852
|
1937-07-07
|
Memo
|
Reporting a Phoenix theatre owner who does not show double features -- his shows consist of a feature, newsreel and shor...
|
2837
|
1937-06-30
|
Memo
|
Relating to photographs of Joan Blondell taken by a 'candid cameraman' and printed in Modern Screen magazine. This break...
|
2876
|
1937-05-11
|
Memo
|
Harry Brandt wants to bring back the arbitration boards -- Hays says that the MPPDA is unable to involve itself in the m...
|
2877
|
1937-05-06
|
Letter and enclosure/s
|
Brandt wants to bring back the arbitration boards -- he has written an enclosed article on the subject.
|
2881
|
1937-04-07
|
Memo
|
The Production Code should not be used to further the circulation of films made for advertising purposes.
|
2893
|
1937-03-18
|
Memo
|
With the merging of subsidiaries and RKO, Hays wants to arrange for Leo Spitz to represent the company as member and dir...
|
2948
|
1937-03-16
|
Letter
|
Congratulatory letter to Warner Bros. for having very few references to liquor or drinking in their recent films.
|
2856
|
1937-02-24
|
Letter
|
Double feature screening of The Stowaway (with Shirley Temple) and At The Opera (Charlie Chan film) -- young boy was fri...
|
2842
|
1937-01-26
|
Memo
|
Calling for an informal inquiry into members of Allied States obtaining liability insurance from foreign companies -- in...
|
2870
|
1937-01-01
|
Letter
|
Regarding the title "Court House Square" -- MGM was in negotiations to buy the book of that name then bought a book with...
|
1168
|
1936-12-23
|
Memo
|
Summary of the development of the Production Code prior to the Trade Practice Conference of 1927.
|
3185
|
1936-12-23
|
Memo
|
Summary of significant modifications of the Production Code between 1930 and 1934.
|
2799
|
1936-12-18
|
Letter
|
Hays is concerned there may be a development of jokes concerning the abdication of King Edward VIII -- Breen assures him...
|
1145
|
1936-12-14
|
Letter
|
Hays is concerned there may be a development of jokes concerning the abdication of King Edward VIII. The importance of a...
|
2800
|
1936-12-14
|
Letter
|
Hays is concerned there may be a development of jokes concerning the abdication of King Edward VIII. The fear is offensi...
|
2790
|
1936-11-05
|
Correspondence
|
Regarding a theatre in Indianapolis connected to a circuit for Paramount-Fox pictures.
|
2770
|
1936-11-04
|
Memo
|
Independent exhibitors in Iowa are beginning to work together and lobby for reforms to exhibition contracts and tax laws...
|
2826
|
1936-11-02
|
Memo, press summary
|
Don Craig has written an article for the Washington DC News that criticizes the work of the PCA on the grounds that it w...
|
2725
|
1936-10-30
|
Resolution
|
Resolution on double features in Maryland -- no longer obligated to exhibited low grade films designed solely to be seco...
|
2771
|
1936-10-22
|
Memo
|
Exhibitors in Philadelphia have voiced an internal interest in working out local conciliation within their organisation ...
|
2802
|
1936-10-21
|
Letter
|
Sending out a copy of the Production Code, resolution for uniform interpretation, the memo on crime pictures and the res...
|