1285
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1928-12-01
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Correspondence
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Exchange of letters between Hays and Brookhart on arbitration. Brookhart is introducing a bill to bring the motion pictu...
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525
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1929-01-15
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Correspondence
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Censor problems over sound films -- no longer intend to be so lenient as they have been. Hays circulates this letter ...
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2121
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1929-01-19
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Correspondence
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A Romanian scientist is given an introduction to Milliken by Rep Charles Hilles of New York, who is a member of the Repu...
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2143
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1929-01-20
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Correspondence
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Relating to the Jubilee Realty Corporation of Buffalo, NY, over the Jubilee Theater having purchased a franchise from Fi...
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2144
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1929-01-20
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Correspondence
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MPTOA Colorado are probably acting in conspiracy in breach of the Sheridan Act. Hess recommends collecting evidence and...
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2148
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1929-01-22
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Correspondence
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Seeking to resolve a dispute between a Lima theatre owner and Vitaphone
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2111
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1929-01-24
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Correspondence
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Hays responding to several authors' claimed grievances about the application of the Formula.
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3330
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1929-01-30
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Correspondence
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Brown is the new President of RKO. He and Hays seek to meet, and Hays asks Beetson to contact Brown in Los Angeles.
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2110
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1929-02-26
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Correspondence
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Correspondence relating to the Authors' League Agreement, and with several claims for copyright over stories.
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2127
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1929-03-06
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Correspondence
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Series of reports and correspondence relating to news reports of children being inspired to crime by movies. Detectives...
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3321
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1929-03-14
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Correspondence
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Correspondence about an article on 'The Authors' League Agreement with the Motion Picture Producers," to be published un...
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661
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1929-03-27
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Correspondence
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Guthrie wants ten Navy planes flying in formation for The Green Goddess. He asks McKenzie to "kindly take this matter u...
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1535
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1929-04-04
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Correspondence
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The King of Kings is back and it now has sound. A screening is being booked at the Chautauqua Institution and the arrang...
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1526
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1929-04-30
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Correspondence
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General information about MPPDA membership, principally applications for membership and the payment of fees.
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511
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1929-06-01
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Correspondence
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Formula imposed on play The Bachelor Father as film The Lion's Share -- useful as a case study of changes required.
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2168
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1929-07-01
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Correspondence
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Letters to two exhibitors cancelling contracts because of the unsuitability of their sound equipment.
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1494
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1929-07-03
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Correspondence
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Correspondence between Mrs. Alonzo Richardson (BOR, Atlanta) and Milliken and Trotti in relation to The Very Idea. Contr...
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2160
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1929-07-10
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Correspondence
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Correspondence relating to a San Francisco personal property tax
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2108
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1929-08-15
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Correspondence
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Correspondence relating to a possible patents claim over the use of photographic miniatures in combination with full-sca...
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2115
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1929-08-28
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Correspondence
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Correspondence generated by a request from the censorship board of Virginia for copies of scripts for all sound pictures...
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2119
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1929-09-17
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Correspondence
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Correspondence relating to a dispute between Educational and MGM over a contract to sell shorts to an Indianapolis exhib...
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2104
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1929-10-10
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Correspondence
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Correspondence relating to standardizing the shape of camera and projector apertures, and investigating illumination. R...
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643
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1929-10-22
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Correspondence
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The National Billiard Association, in objecting to pool-hall scenes, now claims to represent SIX MILLION BILLIARD PLAYER...
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2120
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1929-11-14
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Correspondence
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Correspondence between DeBra and the Psychological Corporation, which is planning a study of the educational effects of ...
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1527
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1929-11-19
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Correspondence
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Financial situation of the Motion Picture Relief Fund. MPPDA is arranging to raise the money needed since the fund's sep...
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528
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1929-12-01
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Correspondence
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Large volume of correspondence over the provision of a sound screening facility in Boston by distributors for the use of...
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1532
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1929-12-18
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Correspondence
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Correspondence regarding the silent picture Porto Rico, owned by the Governor Theodore Roosevelt. Distribution a problem...
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1629
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1930-01-03
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Correspondence
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With the upcoming release of Her Unborn Child, there are attempts to sell sex hygiene pictures to exhibitors. There appe...
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1647
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1930-01-27
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Correspondence
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Regarding the MGM-Universal controversy over the similarities between Universal's Jailbreak and a MGM film. Included her...
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1614
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1930-02-01
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Correspondence
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Various correspondence regarding applications for membership to the MPPDA. Companies discussed here are Disney, Technico...
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1586
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1930-02-12
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Correspondence
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Declaration of a protest by the Portland District of Oregon Congress of Parents and Teachers. The Broadway and Hollywood...
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1264
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1930-03-01
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Correspondence
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Hays seeks the opinions of member companies as to whether to adopt Joy's suggestion to sever links with the National Boa...
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2212
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1930-03-10
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Correspondence
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Correspondence asking for help in an exhibitor's getting relief from playing questionable pictures, and comments on the ...
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1254
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1930-03-29
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Correspondence
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The public relations push behind the launching of the Code. Drafts of letters to be sent to supporters of the industry,...
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1565
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1930-04-01
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Correspondence
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Furore over an article printed in Variety (23 April 1930) which, reportedly, attributed embarrassing quotes to the Hays ...
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1608
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1930-04-01
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Correspondence
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Foreign medical films. Investigating German surgical films for use in America. Previously, foreign medical films have be...
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1575
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1930-04-09
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Correspondence
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Censorship problems for Hughes Hell's Angels, primarily sex and profanity. Detailed correspondence involving the changes...
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1569
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1930-04-19
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Correspondence
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Various correspondence between MPPDA and the American Humane Society and the American Society for the Prevention of Crue...
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1561
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1930-05-01
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Correspondence
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In Dayton, Ohio, Loew's Theatres are advertising Free and Easy as a Anita Page and William Haines picture when it is act...
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1556
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1930-08-01
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Correspondence
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Correspondence regarding the Warner Bros." film The Matrimonial Bed and the way in which it is advertised in Washington....
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1555
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1930-09-01
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Correspondence
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Small group of correspondence concerning the advertising for the Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. film The Little Accident which i...
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1630
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1930-09-18
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Correspondence
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Correspondence on the forced buying of shorts from companies in order to secure their features. Block-booking. Exhibitor...
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2205
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1930-09-24
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Correspondence
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Various correspondence regarding application for membership to the MPPDA from Tiffany productions.
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1564
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1930-09-25
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Correspondence
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Concerning the Columbia film Africa Speaks. Two main issues: the authenticity of the film and the claims of its brutalit...
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1616
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1930-09-25
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Correspondence
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Regarding original copy of Code and Resolutions for Uniform Interpretation. Most companies have signed the Code but MPPD...
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1553
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1930-10-01
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Correspondence
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A discussion over the use of the word "risqu" in motion picture advertising. Began as a result of the advertising for T...
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1240
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1930-10-16
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Correspondence
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enclosing memo by McKenzie 30 September 1930: re War Nurse, MGM Trotti: "This is another striking evidence of the worki...
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3339
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1930-10-30
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Correspondence
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Hays seems to have missed a meeting with the American College of Surgeons to promote surgical films, and Martin is conce...
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1628
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1930-12-04
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Correspondence
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Fox Film Corporation is seeking a construction permit and license for a radio station in Beverly Hills. From attached co...
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2210
|
1930-12-15
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Correspondence
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Complaint by New Jersey exhibitor about collusion in price-fixing by United Artists and Path, denied by UA's lawyers
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2211
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1930-12-17
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Correspondence
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Trotti passes on a copy of a resolution by the MPTOA -- North and South Carolina requesting the studios not to use white...
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1678
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1931-01-06
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Correspondence
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Dispute between a theatre owner in Iowa and Universal. Regarding serials. Universal is, apparently, no longer a friend o...
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2231
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1931-01-07
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Correspondence
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Informing Kent that Myers has called off a proposed amalgamation of Allied States and the MPTOA, allegedly because the U...
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2229
|
1931-02-04
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Correspondence
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Exchange of letters between Hess and Myers concerning the activities of the Copyright Protection Bureau, trigged by an a...
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1664
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1931-03-01
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Correspondence
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Ongoing conversation regarding the financial situation of various exhibitors Columbia is currently taking or intending ...
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2252
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1931-05-01
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Correspondence
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routine letters about missing Board meetings
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2259
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1931-05-01
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Correspondence
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The joining of Tiffany, Educational and World Wide has been completed and all is seemingly going smoothly. Letters of pl...
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1672
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1931-05-07
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Correspondence
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MPPDA rallying around Charles W. Picquet as distribution contracts are forcing him out of business due to his owning the...
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1671
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1931-06-04
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Correspondence
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A situation has arisen in Michigan where in a member of the local FBT has come up with the idea that if an exhibitor has...
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2250
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1931-07-31
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Correspondence
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MPTO Eastern Pennsylvania has passed a resolution against non-theatrical exhibition that may be in breach of antitrust ...
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1666
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1931-10-08
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Correspondence
|
Contractual dispute between Columbia Pictures and Talking Pictures Company of Porto Rico over the distribution of Columb...
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2261
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1931-12-26
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Correspondence
|
Routine correspondence
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1784
|
1932-03-01
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Correspondence
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Various correspondence between Palfreyman, Pettijohn, O'Toole and McGuinness relating to the arrangements made for the u...
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1698
|
1932-03-23
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Correspondence
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Questioning an included report claiming the film will be released under the title Scarface.
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1695
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1932-04-19
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Correspondence
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Relating to a list of changes required to the first print of Scarface exhibited to the board. All changes involve acts o...
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1777
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1932-05-25
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Correspondence
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Letter sent to all companies. O'Toole attempting to remove state censorship all together. Asking companies for informati...
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1731
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1932-06-20
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Correspondence
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General information regarding the Committee on Distribution Economics and their upcoming meeting. Includes other brief c...
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1686
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1932-07-30
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Correspondence
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Protesting Scarface. Demanding all Italian names be removed from the picture. Hays replies (4 August 1932), defending th...
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857
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1932-08-01
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Correspondence
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Joy has found several properties -- from scenarios to finished films -- to be inadmissible under the Code. Hays sen...
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1785
|
1932-08-01
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Correspondence
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Communications between MPPDA and the Museum of Modern Art. Museum interested in creating a collection of films with "art...
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1787
|
1932-11-01
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Correspondence
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Meeting held involving all the exchanges in the Philadelphia area and the local exhibitors. Exhibitors attempting to pre...
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1767
|
1932-12-02
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Correspondence
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Creation of a clause allowing local producers and distributors, affiliated with a member company, to make pro-rata payme...
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1820
|
1933-01-01
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Correspondence
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Various correspondence concerning thoughts on distribution economics. All companies have done what they can alone, yet n...
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1835
|
1933-01-26
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Correspondence
|
Various correspondence -- censorship procedures concerning animated films.
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1922
|
1933-02-28
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Correspondence
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Correspondence re Admission Tax Bill. Unlike the current federal bill, this new bill proposes a straight ten percent tax...
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1884
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1933-03-01
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Correspondence
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Various correspondence regarding the producer-distributor clause -- responding to Hays' letter dated 4 March 1933.Hays w...
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1843
|
1933-05-16
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Correspondence
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Various correspondence relating to the Kunsky/Detroit theatres deal.
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1941
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1933-07-26
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Correspondence
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Regarding the litigation between Tiffany and Cinevox (Swiss company) -- is there any help Hays can offer. He replies: h...
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1840
|
1933-12-01
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Correspondence
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Various letters relating to the Federal film archives building and its progress.
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978
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1934-01-17
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Correspondence
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Bentel is concerned that September Morn, a stage property authored by his client Edward W. Rowland, is being unfairly bl...
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954
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1934-01-23
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Correspondence
|
Advertising Code operation working: the men at the studios are cooperating splendidly. Universal not currently producin...
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2346
|
1934-02-07
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Correspondence
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Robert Tansey and Paul D. Wyman's film Taming The Jungle has been distributed by Monogram Pictures. The two claim Monogr...
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999
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1934-03-23
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Correspondence
|
Milliken writes to editors of papers which have run articles on the Dillinger film, correcting their reports.
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2456
|
1934-04-19
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Correspondence
|
Small file relating to the taxes and charges incurred when leasing independent theatres. The Chrystie Theatre Corporati...
|
1996
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1934-05-12
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Correspondence
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Letters and a resolution made by the church -- in support of Hays.
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2412
|
1934-07-01
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Correspondence
|
File relating to the signing of the Resolution giving the Production Code Administration the authority to approve all fi...
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2386
|
1934-07-23
|
Correspondence
|
Sending process for East Coast producers to obtain PCA seal of approval. Small amount of correspondence relating to this...
|
1007
|
1934-07-28
|
Correspondence
|
MPPDA should agree not to make a picture based on the life of Dillinger - affirmative replies from Albert Warner, Zukor,...
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970
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1934-09-04
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Correspondence
|
The major companies reply to 4 September 1934 Hays inquiry about notifying other companies about suspect plays and books...
|
2390
|
1934-10-01
|
Correspondence
|
File on the role of independent producer I. E. Chadwick. His films are being submitted to PCA but he is not a member of ...
|
2004
|
1934-10-05
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Correspondence
|
A description of Tenney's continuous film rewind device. Includes small amount of correspondence on this subject.
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2382
|
1934-11-13
|
Correspondence
|
Paramount is pushing for a change to the Production Code Administration seal of approval, particularly with short subjec...
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1088
|
1934-12-28
|
Correspondence
|
Tom Baily and Bill Pine of Paramount publicity department. are rumoured to be planning to "make it tough" for Breen to e...
|
2681
|
1935-02-08
|
Correspondence
|
Certain films currently in circulation need to be withdrawn because they are not acceptable under the new provisions of ...
|
1134
|
1935-02-10
|
Correspondence
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Correspondence re movies recommended for withdrawal from circulation, especially in the light of the Catholic banned lis...
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2587
|
1935-02-28
|
Correspondence
|
Asking Beetson to show his report (worked on with Harry Cohn) on ways to reduce the film needed for the display of the P...
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2494
|
1935-03-01
|
Correspondence
|
Small file relating to the amendment to the Kansas Censorship Law. While films must be approved by the board prior to ex...
|
2543
|
1935-03-01
|
Correspondence
|
Small file relating to First Division becoming a member of the MPPDA.
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2630
|
1935-03-01
|
Correspondence
|
File of correspondence informing companies of the new shorter PCA seal of approval for short subjects -- it will no long...
|
1129
|
1935-03-14
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Correspondence
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According to Worth M. Tippy of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America (FCCCA), "the self-censorship at Hol...
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