2839
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1937-09-07
|
Letter
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Relating to the issue of advertising and stars who are loaned out to other studios. These stars can not be advertised as...
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2841
|
1937-09-22
|
Letter
|
Sending a copy of the speech given by Abram F. Myers at the convention of Allied Theatres of New Jersey suggesting a sim...
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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...
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2859
|
1937-10-12
|
Letter
|
Sending the report of the Advisory Committee on Motion Pictures in Education to members.
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2860
|
1937-10-14
|
Letter
|
Presenting the report of the Advisory Committee on Motion Pictures in Education - all very positive.
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2866
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1937-10-15
|
Letter
|
Asking members to familiarize themselves with the enclosed information suggesting a similar Act to the Guffey Act for th...
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2882
|
1937-10-21
|
Letter
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Sending Breen yet another copy of the Resolution of Uniform Interpretation, Resolution regarding the submission of scrip...
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2850
|
1937-11-22
|
Letter
|
Acknowledging receipt of an upcoming article calling for the end to double feature screenings.
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2849
|
1937-12-09
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Letter
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Pollard has suggested that forty-five minute musicals should be produced (in the East) to accompany features -- in an ef...
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2895
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1937-12-23
|
Letter
|
Outlining the meeting of the Will Rogers Memorial Commission and the work undertaken by the Commission. Includes a file ...
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1180
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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 ...
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2846
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1937-12-31
|
Letter
|
Sending Hays the information regarding the situation with Charlie Chaplin and Fred Futter -- Futter intends to place Cha...
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2845
|
1938-01-03
|
Letter
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Regarding the situation with Charlie Chaplin and Fred Futter -- Futter intends to place Chaplin's old two reel comedies ...
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2898
|
1938-01-04
|
Letter
|
Benjamin Livingston has numerous arrests for indecent exhibition, staging indecent performances and allowing minors to v...
|
2844
|
1938-01-05
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Letter
|
Asking for any further advice regarding the situation with Charlie Chaplin and Fred Futter -- Futter intends to place Ch...
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2953
|
1938-01-06
|
Letter
|
The current standing of several RKO pictures in relation to PCA approval -- all films were produced in England.
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2904
|
1938-01-10
|
Letter
|
Advising companies about the work of the Advisory Committee on Education in Motion Pictures and the desire to establish ...
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2903
|
1938-01-18
|
Letter
|
Giving permission for the Educational Films pictures that have been approved by the Advisory Committee on Education in M...
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2902
|
1938-01-20
|
Letter
|
The Advisory Committee on Education in Motion Pictures want a list of Disney short subjects that the company is willing ...
|
1178
|
1938-02-10
|
Letter
|
Summary of boards of trade representing American movie interests in France Belgium Switzerland and Egypt.
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2949
|
1938-02-18
|
Letter
|
Sending Standard Pictures specific PCA regulations regarding crime pictures.
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2947
|
1938-03-21
|
Letter
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Regarding outstanding PCA fees to be paid by Gaumont-British Picture Corp. of America -- in relation to the film The Two...
|
2945
|
1938-04-06
|
Letter
|
The issue of PCA approved and non-PCA approved films appearing together in the one program.
|
2944
|
1938-04-14
|
Letter
|
Thanking Hess for his opinion on the matter of the film Moambi-Ikomba (King of the Gorillas). The association does not w...
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1182
|
1938-04-28
|
Letter
|
An angry letter occasioned by an article in the Chicago Daily Tribune (included) in which Goldwyn is quoted as denouncin...
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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...
|
2943
|
1938-05-02
|
Letter
|
Regarding the increase of fees for PCA services.
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2942
|
1938-05-05
|
Letter
|
Regarding the increase of fees for PCA services.
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2314
|
1938-06-14
|
Letter
|
There is a proposed film based on the Morro Castle disaster -- there is a fear this will harm the American Merchant Mari...
|
2913
|
1938-06-16
|
Letter
|
Arranging the continuation of a meeting of the Board of Directors.
|
2941
|
1938-08-01
|
Letter
|
The Magic Carpet of Movietone series (Fox Movietone News) is heartily approved by the PCA.
|
2955
|
1938-08-02
|
Letter
|
Reissues will only be given PCA approval if the titles have been cleared through the Title Bureau -- this is difficult b...
|
1188
|
1938-09-01
|
Letter
|
An official sponsorship deal, involving the financing of an entertainment film by Lucky Strike cigarettes, is proposed b...
|
2962
|
1938-09-03
|
Letter
|
Columbia is producing a serial called "The Spider" -- similar to the King Trendle radio broadcast "The Green Hornet". Co...
|
2963
|
1938-09-06
|
Letter
|
Copyright infringement fears for King Trendle radio broadcast "Lone Ranger" -- includes Palfreyman's advice.
|
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 ...
|
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...
|
2939
|
1938-10-31
|
Letter
|
Paramount has been combining the PCA seal of approval and the NBR insignia -- there is a fear this will confuse audience...
|
2936
|
1938-11-09
|
Letter
|
Lists the prison films made by member companies in the last two years. Production Trends.
|
2932
|
1938-11-25
|
Letter
|
Sending Harmon the file on the film Angels With Dirty Faces.
|
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).
|
3054
|
1939-01-07
|
Letter
|
Issues of importing foreign films into Japan.
|
1214
|
1939-01-16
|
Letter
|
Advertising films are brought under the jurisdiction of the Advertising Advisory Council, finally solving the problem of...
|
1213
|
1939-01-17
|
Letter
|
Skouras is concerned about the double-feature situation, especially the poor quality of B-pictures and the prevalence of...
|
2973
|
1939-01-20
|
Letter
|
Regarding score charges -- Canadian distributors seem to want to wait and take the lead of their American counterparts.
|
1203
|
1939-02-03
|
Letter
|
Includes 2 memoranda re the pedagogic enterprises directed by Mark A. May: the history and development of the project us...
|
3051
|
1939-02-11
|
Letter
|
MGM having some difficulties in India obtaining a renewal of their theatre license.
|
3050
|
1939-02-24
|
Letter
|
Proposal to increase tax on American motion pictures in Canada for the duration of the war.
|
2991
|
1939-02-28
|
Letter
|
Sending information to the Board of Directors prior to meeting - motion pictures in education, program of the Advisory ...
|
3049
|
1939-03-01
|
Letter
|
Tax on excess profit for foreign business in Spain -- will be in effect for the duration of the war.
|
3020
|
1939-03-04
|
Letter
|
Asking about five Paramount films (reissues) Brandt is hoping to exhibit -- have they been PCA approved? Milliken replie...
|
1215
|
1939-03-10
|
Letter
|
Harmon first suggests to Hays the separation of the administrative and advisory functions of the PCA, in order to clarif...
|
3062
|
1939-03-22
|
Letter
|
Twentieth Century-Fox is proposing to make a film about the life and work of Brigham Young -- the Church of Jesus Christ...
|
3016
|
1939-04-06
|
Letter
|
Asking for information regarding Production Code -- everything necessary to obtain PCA seal of approval. Palfreyman resp...
|
3058
|
1939-04-06
|
Letter
|
Only three companies have signed the contracts with Teaching Film Custodians, Inc.
|
3063
|
1939-04-06
|
Letter
|
United Artists is attempting to collect money owed to them by United Artists A.S. which is a Czechoslovakian corporation...
|
2998
|
1939-04-10
|
Letter
|
Sending Hays pamphlet on privacy rights -- a new branch of law.
|
3019
|
1939-04-12
|
Letter
|
In regard to the resolution on PCA fees for reissues -- Hays feels the fee should be set at $25.00.
|
2979
|
1939-04-13
|
Letter
|
Charlie Chaplin has designed a movie sequence that is very new and exciting to him. He wants to leave the written copy o...
|
2997
|
1939-04-13
|
Letter
|
Thanking Nizer for sending information regarding privacy rights.
|
3018
|
1939-04-14
|
Letter
|
Hays feels all reissues should incur a $25.00 PCA fee.
|
3040
|
1939-04-27
|
Letter
|
Libel suit against Republic Pictures' film Man of Conquest.
|
3048
|
1939-04-29
|
Letter
|
Motion pictures in Buenos Aires -- no details provided. Presumably exhibition of foreign films.
|
2978
|
1939-05-01
|
Letter
|
Asking if the Independent Motion Pictures Producers Association is still functioning? Chadwick is forming a production c...
|
3064
|
1939-05-01
|
Letter
|
United Artists is attempting to ascertain the full financial details of its Spanish subsidiary.
|
3046
|
1939-05-17
|
Letter
|
Regarding the motion picture situation in the Netherlands -- exhibition of American motion pictures?
|
3047
|
1939-05-17
|
Letter
|
Regarding proposed bill in Japan relating to the exhibition of foreign motion pictures.
|
3024
|
1939-06-08
|
Letter
|
Sending the extended licensing agreement between Progressive Education Association and members -- there has been a delay...
|
3053
|
1939-06-18
|
Letter
|
Bill imposing restrictions on American motion picture interests in Denmark.
|
2981
|
1939-06-20
|
Letter
|
Sending Columbia a copy of the Certificate of Incorporation and the by-laws of the MPPDA.
|
1205
|
1939-06-24
|
Letter
|
Hoover asks whether he should participate in a series of filmed interviews planned by Eugene Lyons.
|
3045
|
1939-07-17
|
Letter
|
Concerning the ban of the Universal film The Road Back in Honduras and Peru.
|
1204
|
1939-07-19
|
Letter
|
Complaint that chain theatres fail to support the lobbying efforts of the independent theatres, and do not pull their fi...
|
3044
|
1939-07-27
|
Letter
|
Regarding the proposal to improve the quality of American motion pictures exhibited in Chile.
|
3042
|
1939-08-07
|
Letter
|
Regarding the exhibition of American motion pictures in France since the modification of the French Film Decree.
|
3043
|
1939-08-10
|
Letter
|
Regarding the bill concerning tax and regulation of the exhibition of foreign films in Cuba.
|
1202
|
1939-09-15
|
Letter
|
With the onset of war in Europe, Hays reiterates his position that the motion pictures are primarily entertainment and t...
|
3014
|
1939-09-16
|
Letter
|
Regarding Hays' recent letter on the importance of not allowing propaganda to be produced by the industry in relation to...
|
3009
|
1939-10-04
|
Letter
|
A letter received by Pettijohn from the president of a distillers corporation -- his view is that the movies should not ...
|
3041
|
1939-10-11
|
Letter
|
Operation of American motion picture companies in the United Kingdom.
|
3055
|
1939-10-19
|
Letter
|
DeBra is trying to convince FitzPatrick to lend his travel films to the Teaching Film Custodians, Inc. for the use on ed...
|
2980
|
1939-10-31
|
Letter
|
Letter regarding Northern Film, Ltd. vs. Columbia Films, Corp. Dispute over the sale of exhibition rights to The Crimson...
|
2967
|
1939-11-02
|
Letter
|
The Motion Picture Distributors and Exhibitors of Canada are working on the formation of a national conciliation board f...
|
3052
|
1939-11-02
|
Letter
|
Regarding applications for reimport duties on American motion pictures going into China.
|
2970
|
1939-11-09
|
Letter
|
Regarding Canadian exhibitors asking American companies for concessions.
|
3061
|
1939-11-09
|
Letter
|
Sending an application for membership to the MPPDA -- and resolution regarding fees and dues.
|
2969
|
1939-11-12
|
Letter
|
Cooper wants it recorded that he disagrees with the argument reasoning that American companies should not extend their c...
|
3003
|
1939-12-11
|
Letter
|
Regarding travel films made about Washington -- a service has been done for the state, could this information be used as...
|
3002
|
1939-12-18
|
Letter
|
Thanking FitzPatrick for information regarding travel films about the state of Washington.
|
3001
|
1939-12-19
|
Letter
|
Sending Breen correspondence (12-1928 to 12-1929) regarding travel films made about Washington -- a service has been don...
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