1563
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1930-08-06
|
Memo
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Concerning the use of stars in Old Gold cigarette advertising, considered to be an issue to due the recent scandal over ...
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1261
|
1930-08-05
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Letter and enclosure/s
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Encloses letter from Archbishop Hayes to Wilfrid Parsons, 07-25-1930, in support of the idea of the Code. Quigley sent ...
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711
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1930-08-01
|
Memo
|
Production Code violations by WB film Golden Dawn -- which had been passed without eliminations by New York and Virgin...
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712
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1930-07-31
|
Memo
|
WB non-compliance with Production Code in East
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2217
|
1930-07-10
|
Letters
|
Complaint from two newspapermen -- one in an editorial -- on the representation of newspapermen in pictures. Wilstach re...
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2190
|
1930-07-09
|
Memos
|
Several memos contain comments on the influence of the screen -- both positive and negative -- by a variety of people, i...
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2191
|
1930-07-08
|
Memo
|
Passing on favourable report on the movies' lack of influence on criminal behaviour from Edward J. Goff, candidate for C...
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1231
|
1930-07-01
|
Newspaper article
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Clipping -- "Sex movies give us Black eye Abroad." Hays memo following up, seeking to identify pictures referred to.
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714
|
1930-07-01
|
Telegram
|
'Sam Morris Warners rules unnecessary for us to see short subjects or scripts that they have situation in hand and Code ...
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1626
|
1930-06-19
|
Letter
|
Lilyan Tashman was quoted in an article in the San Francisco Examiner as saying that women who buy their own jewels are ...
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693
|
1930-06-10
|
Letter
|
They have been having a meeting on Advertising Code which will be ratified this afternoon by Board ... "I wish that you ...
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2226
|
1930-06-07
|
Memo
|
"Dangerous Business" retitled as "Play Girl"
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3336
|
1930-06-06
|
Letter
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Promoting the use of screen advertising, and suggesting that the industry cooperate with advertising experts Lennen and ...
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1243
|
1930-06-05
|
Letter and reply
|
Progress of the Code -- inevitability that material made before the implementation of the Code will slip through for t...
|
692
|
1930-06-05
|
Letter
|
Lord had missed Hays in New York -- has written to Father O'Donnell of Notre Dame a brief account of Mundelein connect...
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1557
|
1930-05-23
|
Letter
|
Regarding the advertising for the film Ladies of Leisure (although Markham refers to it as "Women of Leisure"). The repl...
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1627
|
1930-05-14
|
Letters
|
Responding to a criticism of Her Unborn Child and Montana Moon.
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1646
|
1930-05-06
|
Letter
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Inquiring about the laws preventing the exhibition or importation of fight films. Hess replies.
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690
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1930-05-05
|
Letter
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As yet Hughes had not signed the Production Code for Caddo, nor Christie for Christies Film Co, DeMille, Griffith, Roach...
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1571
|
1930-04-19
|
Letter
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Regarding The Little Accident and Strictly Dishonorable and the Formula. Joy inquiries as to whether either have gone th...
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1227
|
1930-04-17
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Letter, memo
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The difficulty of getting censorship repealed in Chicago in the face of bad and salacious advertising
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1280
|
1930-04-16
|
Letter, memo
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The difficulty of getting censorship repealed in Chicago in the face of bad and salacious advertising
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1249
|
1930-04-16
|
Letter
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Evidence of early studio cooperation with the Code; description of distribution and functions of personnel in early Code...
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1272
|
1930-04-11
|
Letter and reply
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Complaint that reference to an "electric ice-box" is pro-Frigidaire propaganda
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1250
|
1930-04-07
|
Letter
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Contrary to the public's impression, many movies have yet to be released that were made before the implementation of the...
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2200
|
1930-04-04
|
Letter
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History of exhibitors' organizations since 1917 - MPEAA, MPTOA, Allied States.
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1252
|
1930-03-28
|
Letter
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Re the misrepresentation of South America in US movies, and the use of South Americans as villains. Will the new Code m...
|
686
|
1930-03-26
|
Letter
|
letters with press release sent to 1900 daily newspapers in US -- more detailed letter sent to 677 editorial writers o...
|
685
|
1930-03-18
|
Letter
|
Letter on Production Code and AMPP: "the earnest purpose of the producers is obvious and the method of enforcement shoul...
|
1654
|
1930-03-18
|
Letter
|
Re profanity in motion pictures. Jack Warner replying to pleas from MPPDA to tone down profanity. Questions individual's...
|
1597
|
1930-03-11
|
Memo
|
DeBra informing Hays of various proposals for the preservation of films of historical value. Included with this memo is ...
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702
|
1930-03-08
|
Memo
|
New York eliminations on Party Girl
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1257
|
1930-03-04
|
Memo
|
Joy wants more foreign censorship information which has not been forthcoming to date. Hays urges Herron to get on with ...
|
1258
|
1930-03-01
|
Memo
|
Joy wants to stop giving financial support to the National Board of Review (NBR), but Hays reacts cautiously despite the...
|
1264
|
1930-03-01
|
Correspondence
|
Hays seeks the opinions of member companies as to whether to adopt Joy's suggestion to sever links with the National Boa...
|
683
|
1930-02-26
|
Telegram
|
Hays understands Quigley "very much hurt" over Variety publication of Code, and asks Lord to mollify him.
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1259
|
1930-02-24
|
Memo
|
Joy seeks and receives clarification about several Code matters, especially guidelines that apply to material that has a...
|
684
|
1930-02-24
|
Memo
|
Questions on Code operation in relation to Formula; wants more information on foreign censorship; suggests withdrawing f...
|
682
|
1930-02-21
|
Letter
|
Writing en route to New York, Hays discusses the method of financing the immediate implementation of the Production Code...
|
681
|
1930-02-20
|
Letter
|
Hays writes from Hollywood, saying there should be no publicity about Code until it is adopted by MPPDA. "It is no doubt...
|
1236
|
1930-02-18
|
Memo
|
Interviews with prominent churchmen concerning the probable church reaction in the event of a successful prosecution of ...
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2194
|
1930-02-17
|
Journal/magazine editorials
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Editorials from The Churchman from June to August 1929
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1562
|
1930-02-15
|
Memo
|
In Chicago, advertisements for The Grand Parade are set out in such a way as to imply that it is actually an advertiseme...
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680
|
1930-02-12
|
Letter
|
"We [he and Lord?] have spent the day putting into final form the conclusions of the sub-committee reached on yesterday"...
|
671
|
1930-02-10
|
Record of meeting
|
Discussion of Production Code in its draft form. Stenographic transcript of a meeting between producers, Lord, Quigley,...
|
679
|
1930-01-24
|
Letter
|
Early letter emphasizing the necessity for a new code of practice with the coming of sound.Hays, writing in Hollywood, w...
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2201
|
1930-01-15
|
Memo
|
Discussing which account should pay for expenses of exhibitor organization members coming to conferences on the Uniform ...
|
678
|
1930-01-07
|
Memo
|
Hays memo on a conference with Wanger on Code -- negotiation over the viability of the old "Don'ts." Wanger wants a Co...
|
2193
|
1930-01-06
|
Journal/magazine editorials
|
Two editorials in The Commonweal, critical of Hays and Milliken, with memo from McKenzie to Milliken
|
2184
|
1930-01-04
|
Telegram
|
Publicity Directors' meeting discuses advertising, particularly of Party Girl. Several expressions of regret about laps...
|
703
|
1930-01-03
|
Memo
|
Party Girl not yet reviewed by Fisher. McGoldrick thinks no amount of cutting can clean it up
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536
|
1929-12-20
|
Letter
|
Documents on the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America (FCCCA) Commission on the Motion Picture and Drama in...
|
600
|
1929-12-20
|
Letter
|
'Previewing." Hays explains the whole concept behind previewing -- "We are not only making motion pictures but we are ...
|
601
|
1929-12-20
|
Typescript
|
'The Motion Picture Conference." Outline of the public relations function of the motion picture conference (including l...
|
1281
|
1929-12-20
|
Miscellaneous
|
Anticipating the forthcoming Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America (FCCCA) report on motion pictures, Millike...
|
1490
|
1929-12-03
|
Speech/address
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"Arbitration in Business" by Hays.
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3200
|
1929-12-03
|
Letter
|
Lichtenberg is requesting an essay by Hays on the general subject of arbitration in business for educational purposes. T...
|
2134
|
1929-11-22
|
Letter
|
Sending copy of award for exhibitors for "excellency in the reproduction of sound pictures."
|
639
|
1929-11-22
|
Memo
|
Summary of speeches at the Convention of the MPTO of Ohio in Columbus on November 19-20. Myers, Rembusch, Lightman, Pet...
|
2109
|
1929-11-15
|
|
Assessment of the arbitration situation in the industry, following the Thacher court decision. Includes 20 September 192...
|
510
|
1929-10-29
|
Letter
|
Reply to editorial suggesting Hays should operate an "iron hand," outlining need for self-regulation
|
539
|
1929-10-11
|
Letter
|
Violation of profanity Don'ts in The Lady Lies: "It is, indeed, most unfortunate that this cannot be corrected. Nearly ...
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548
|
1929-10-10
|
Letter
|
MPPDA Technical Committee and AMPAS Technical Bureau (members of both listed) working on standardizing the shape of came...
|
508
|
1929-10-08
|
Letter
|
Community conference -- complaints over vulgar short subjects. Wants First National to cooperate with Joy
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503
|
1929-10-04
|
Memo
|
Attendance at meeting on new Code of Ethics
|
505
|
1929-10-04
|
Speech/address
|
Re redrafting of formula to Code - Hays recites the history of the crises in 1924 and 1927, the problem of "the injectio...
|
2103
|
1929-10-01
|
Telegrams, letter
|
Routine -- thanks for earlier letters
|
565
|
1929-10-01
|
Letter
|
Hays takes up the case of The Last of Mrs Cheyney, which has been the subject of apparently unreasonable cuts, directly ...
|
665
|
1929-10-01
|
Memo
|
Attendance at meeting to discuss Code of Ethics in production should be Paramount: Lasky Wanger Salsbury; MGM: Rubin Orr...
|
504
|
1929-10-01
|
Memo
|
'We have a meeting at 11 o'clock here on Friday [04 October 1929] to recast the formula as to eliminations, as directed ...
|
1492
|
1929-09-23
|
Letter
|
Letter outlining the development of arbitration in the motion picture industry (requested of Hays by Sarnoff). Letter i...
|
2167
|
1929-09-22
|
Letter
|
Hays writes to straighten out an incident involving Warners cancelling the contract of a vaudeville player
|
549
|
1929-09-20
|
Letter
|
Activities of AMPAS Technical Bureau: "Our staff is now engaged in making a survey at the studios regarding those subjec...
|
1491
|
1929-09-09
|
Memo
|
Memo regarding the proposed improved arbitration statement. Wilkinson has met with Bernheimer (American Arbitration Asso...
|
646
|
1929-09-07
|
Memo
|
Hays summarizes factors currently causing change in the industry (including "censoring of dialogue with sound pictures b...
|
666
|
1929-08-30
|
Letter
|
Violations of profanity Don'ts in The Lady Lies. "The Company members have been very careful to avoid these definite vi...
|
2131
|
1929-08-23
|
Memo
|
Reporting Arthur Brisbane news item suggesting that talkies will influence the way people speak, in imitation of movie s...
|
2146
|
1929-08-23
|
Memo
|
Report on MPTO Missouri convention, at which W.A. Steffes was highly critical of Pettijohn. Transcripts of speeches att...
|
2107
|
1929-08-15
|
Letter
|
Asking for support for the Technical Bureau of the AMPP, which has a tentative budget of $35,000 per year. Also raises ...
|
2108
|
1929-08-15
|
Correspondence
|
Correspondence relating to a possible patents claim over the use of photographic miniatures in combination with full-sca...
|
1530
|
1929-08-14
|
Memo
|
Memo explaining attached survey of the memberships of affiliated theatres in State Exhibitors' Associations.
|
2162
|
1929-08-01
|
Letter
|
Letter complaining that Universal has stolen her story "Three rainy Nights," and asking for Hays' help. Hess replies su...
|
638
|
1929-07-30
|
Letter
|
Metzger details the complaints of the exhibitors against the arbitration system, the Standard Exhibition Contract, and t...
|
567
|
1929-07-20
|
Night letter
|
Trouble with Canadian censors who are all over 70, and may order eliminations and bans to justify their own jobs. The T...
|
1305
|
1929-07-11
|
Letter
|
Canada censorship. Censorship problems in Canada over MGM's The Big City -- recalled in Montreal and Quebec after origin...
|
2150
|
1929-06-29
|
Memo
|
Reporting convention resolution urging the MPPDA to set up a script censoring operation in Hollywood. Milliken replies ...
|
566
|
1929-06-14
|
Letter
|
Hays explains the efforts of the MPPDA to accommodate the sensibilities of other countries. Note: also copy following r...
|
1519
|
1929-06-12
|
Memo
|
Hess outlines the major differences between the standard form of actors' contract and the new one insisted upon by Equit...
|
3333
|
1929-06-12
|
Memos
|
Discussing agenda for Board of Directors Meeting, at which there will also be the heads of the distributors' theatre ch...
|
521
|
1929-06-11
|
Telegram
|
Chicago Council has refused to appropriate money for Censor Board to purchase sound equipment
|
555
|
1929-06-06
|
Letter
|
Hays emphasizes the extreme importance of eliminating salacious advertising, especially in the light of the Trade Practi...
|
1504
|
1929-06-01
|
Memo
|
"Isn't it interesting and gratifying to note that in the story about the Whalen Crime Commission in the Tribune of May 3...
|
1487
|
1929-05-17
|
Letter
|
Beetson informing Hays of the Academy's second annual meeting and their awards of merit. Included is relevant material a...
|
596
|
1929-05-16
|
Miscellaneous
|
Roger W. Babson has made widely-published statements accusing the movies of being responsible for the rise in the crime ...
|
529
|
1929-04-01
|
Letter
|
Newspaper editorial on censorship:'There is no doubt, of course, that in theory there is no defense for censorship. Yet...
|
3331
|
1929-03-19
|
Letter
|
Discussion of bill for legal services in Ohio
|
1496
|
1929-03-09
|
Book chapter
|
A reprinted chapter from the book "A Century Of Industrial Progress", written by Hays on the the history of the motion p...
|
2130
|
1929-03-09
|
Memo
|
Good news item from the Joplin, Mo., News Herald 16 February 1929 about someone confessing to a crime after watching a p...
|
558
|
1929-03-05
|
Letter
|
Concerns the introduction of sound technology and the problem of sensibly deciding upon a system when "sound itself is i...
|
2163
|
1929-03-01
|
Letter
|
Letter complaining about Universal in relation to a dispute with Rogers involving Ken Maynard. Metzger of Universal deni...
|