2646
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1935-06-24
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Letter
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Regarding reissues of films. They must be approved by the PCA.
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2645
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1935-06-26
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Letter
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Disagrees with the agreement (or disagrees that there was an agreement) that any film reissued before 1 August 1935 must...
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2482
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1935-07-01
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Letter
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Congratulating Hess on his memo to all member companies regarding the issue of representation of the dead in biographica...
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2704
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1935-07-08
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Letter
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MPPDA playing unofficial mediator between Warners and a disgruntled exhibitor -- the details of the situation are not gi...
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2693
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1935-07-16
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Letter
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MPPDA wants around fifty copies of the booklet "Moving Pictures and the Adolescent" -- social influence of motion pictur...
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2506
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1935-07-23
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Letter
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The Associated Theatre Owners of Indiana are working on a plan to eliminate double features; some theatre owners are str...
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2508
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1935-07-23
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Letter
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Paramount do not want to sign certain exhibition contracts in Indiana without the State agreeing to eliminate double fea...
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2505
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1935-07-25
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Letter
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Information regarding the banning of double features.
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2571
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1935-07-29
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Letter
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Canada Censorship Boards will not pass any more gangster films (G-Men pictures). Foreign.
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2504
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1935-08-02
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Letter
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Approximately ninety percent of theatres owners in Indiana do want to end the exhibition of double features but ten perc...
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2565
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1935-08-05
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Letter
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Sending Hays a list of the words and phrases that are unacceptable under the Production Code -- see the list 11-0276.
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2644
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1935-08-05
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Letter
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RKO are reissuing several films and the PCA has not had time to approval them -- RKO has been forced to reissue them wit...
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1112
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1935-08-23
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Letter
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A congratulatory letter from Fox's office in England praising the Advertising Code. Fox in England is having much less ...
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2544
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1935-09-03
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Letter
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MPPDA want Mascot to join the association. Nat Levine (Mascot) is not keen.
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1121
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1935-09-06
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Letter
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Although G-Man pictures comply with all the tenets of the Code, their excessive violence and brutality have been causing...
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2564
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1935-09-06
|
Letter
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The new list (or an additional list) of words not acceptable under the Production Code. Women shall not be referred to ...
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2471
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1935-09-25
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Letter
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Covering letter accompanying the dissemination of the Survey and Report on Screen Advertising (13 September 1935), plus ...
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2478
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1935-09-26
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Letter
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The wife of the late Senator Huey Long objects to a proposed Universal film about the life of her husband.
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2479
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1935-10-01
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Letter
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Hays assures the wife of the late Senator Huey Long that he would do whatever he could to aid her as Universal is planni...
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2540
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1935-10-01
|
Letter
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Sending Bright an up to date copy of the by-laws of the Association of Motion Picture Producers. Copy included.
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2481
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1935-10-03
|
Letter
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A letter that presumably contains copies of letters sent to the MPPDA regarding a film based on the life of Senator Huey...
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2641
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1935-10-06
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Letter
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What is the current state of She Done Him Wrong and I'm No Angel's applications for PCA approval? Breen is of the opinio...
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2640
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1935-10-07
|
Letter
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Both She Done Him Wrong and I'm No Angel are having great difficulty gaining PCA approval. Breen feels they should not b...
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2468
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1935-10-13
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Letter
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Regarding commercial advertising and the non-theatrical distribution and exhibition of entertainment films in competitio...
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2532
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1935-10-16
|
Letter
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Asking for opinion on the issue of enforced arbitration.
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2654
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1935-10-21
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Letter
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RKO film, Finishing School, was deemed inappropriate for release by the Alberta Board of Motion Picture Censors and it w...
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2496
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1935-10-22
|
Letter
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Issue of obscene shows being performed in theatres with motion pictures. In this case, Minsky's Burlesque is been perfor...
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2529
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1935-10-28
|
Letter
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Acknowledging the large memo "Trade Practices in the Motion Picture Industry" - an attempt to rework issues since the de...
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2497
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1935-10-29
|
Letter
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Thanking Kelly for passing on information relating to burlesque performances accompanying motion pictures in certain the...
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2563
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1935-12-04
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Letter
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A tentative certificate of approval (with number) will be assigned to all scripts approved by the Production Code Admini...
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2703
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1935-12-11
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Letter
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Regarding the title "High Hat" -- it is a registered title yet an upcoming film of the same name has been announced.
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2562
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1935-12-12
|
Letter
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The Vitaphone Corporation (Warner Bros. subsidiary) will send all of their short subjects made in the East to the West C...
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2561
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1935-12-16
|
Letter
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Acknowledging the receipt of a copy of the restraining order issued in the Associated Industries of Oklahoma vs. Oklahom...
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2759
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1936-01-01
|
Letter
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The Legion of Decency has a temporary home until the new headquarters are ready.
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2716
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1936-01-29
|
Letter
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Outlines certain responsibilities of companies under the Advertising Code. From 1 February 1936, a fine will be imposed ...
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2820
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1936-02-05
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Letter
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Regarding the situation of short subject series that are made up of news reel footage -- should they be submitted to PCA...
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2819
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1936-02-10
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Letter
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Thanking Schwartz for the copy of Columbia's Producers-Distributors Contract. Contract included here.
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2788
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1936-03-20
|
Letter
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Dispute with MGM over paying for films the theatre does not want to distribute -- Hess advises Somma to speak with MGM.
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2754
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1936-04-22
|
Letter
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In relation to the improvements of the quality and morality of motion pictures -- "I may say that they are moving in the...
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2752
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1936-04-23
|
Letter
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The Pope has praised the motion pictures and their improved moral decency.
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2731
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1936-04-28
|
Letter
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Asking for help for Warner Bros. nation wide survey on double features.
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2813
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1936-05-01
|
Letter
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Feels the PCA approval costs for distributors of foreign films within America is too high -- particularly when dealing w...
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2720
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1936-05-12
|
Letter
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Relating to the phrase (and therefore title) "Foreign Correspondent".
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2814
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1936-05-14
|
Letter
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A theatre in San Francisco is showing films that do not comply with the Production Code nor do they carry the PCA seal o...
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2818
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1936-05-17
|
Letter
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Breen wants Hays to instruct all companies that requests for the opinion of the PCA on potential production material mus...
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2812
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1936-05-18
|
Letter
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Acknowledging the position of Lenauer -- a distributor of foreign films -- in regards to the costs of obtaining the PCA ...
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2809
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1936-06-01
|
Letter
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Sending Hays information regarding the release of independent productions that have not received the formal PCA seal of ...
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2823
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1936-06-10
|
Letter
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Outlining, for the PCA records, the fees relating to obtaining PCA approval. Small file included relating to the issue o...
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2783
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1936-06-11
|
Letter
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Selznick International Pictures has become a member of the MPPDA.
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2784
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1936-06-11
|
Letter
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Selznick International Pictures has become a member of the MPPDA. Includes small amount of correspondence regarding thei...
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