2037
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1925-03-12
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Correspondence
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Correspondence relating to Alabama attempt to tax the transit of films within the state.
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249
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1925-03-14
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Memo
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Explanation of the National Motion Picture League, which originated at Columbia University in 1916. It reviews pictures ...
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237
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1925-03-18
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Questionnaire
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The State Labor Commissioner is surveying the motion picture industry, and requires information on the employment of ext...
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3266
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1925-03-19
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Record of meeting
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Transcript of Meeting of Committee on Public Relations, March 19, 1925.
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241
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1925-03-21
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Memo
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Major Wooldridge report on the Saturday morning movie for boys and girls.
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3263
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1925-03-21
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Memo
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Useful 4-part report on the activities of the Executive Office of the Committee on Public Relations over the last year. ...
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3264
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1925-03-21
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Report of committee
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Final Report of the Organization Committee of the Committee on Public Relations. proposes the establishment of a Depart...
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251
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1925-03-23
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Pamphlets
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The "Open Door" is the catchphrase of the new Public Relations Department, and is also the title of its pamphlet invitin...
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1334
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1925-03-23
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FTC report
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Report regarding complaint against several distributors for unfair methods of competition under the Act of 1914. Complai...
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1357
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1925-03-23
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Legal document/s
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Complaint and Findings concerning the controversy over the films "The Three Musketeers" starring Douglas Fairbanks and t...
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3265
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1925-03-26
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Resolution
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Resolution passed by the Committee on Public Relations, January 26, 1925, commending the MPPDA and its works in 1924.
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3215
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1925-04-15
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Letter
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Summary of current activities and request for each company to develop materials for the Greater Movie Season, and to enc...
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3214
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1925-04-21
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Record of meeting
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Minutes of publicity managers meeting
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234
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1925-04-22
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Memo
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Establishment of non-profit placement bureau for extras. Beetson asks, among other points: "Do you feel that the general...
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227
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1925-04-24
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Miscellaneous
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Documents relating to censorship, some apparently drawn from Pettijohn's file. They include both pro and anti-censorshi...
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247
|
1925-04-27
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Memo
|
Joy lays out the various functions and responsibilities of the new Public Relations Department, as he sees them. Includ...
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3213
|
1925-04-28
|
Record of meeting
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Minutes of publicity managers meeting
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1341
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1925-05-04
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Letter
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Letter regarding a case Grosvenor was working on (Fur Dressers and Fur Dyers Association). They won the case, the judge ...
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3212
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1925-05-05
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Record of meeting
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Minutes of publicity managers meeting
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1332
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1925-05-12
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Memo
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Pettijohn calling for the creation of an Exhibitors' Department within the MPPDA. He thinks that Burt New should handle ...
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2033
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1925-05-12
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Record of meeting
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Minutes of publicity managers meeting
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2034
|
1925-05-12
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Telegram
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Opinion on actors' contracts -- number of rest days permitted
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240
|
1925-05-15
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Letter
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'Last week I went through the entire train on two different occasions trying to locate you and your partner. As I was u...
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1335
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1925-05-29
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FTC complaint
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Complaint against various companies involved in the ownership or leasing of motion picture theaters in California, charg...
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228
|
1925-06-01
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Correspondence
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J.W. Cleveland, Department of Justice, wants info on Uniform Contract and relationship between MPPDA and Film Boards of ...
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246
|
1925-06-01
|
Correspondence
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E.L. Chase is forming a new company for the promotion of motion pictures, and wants to affiliate with the MPPDA. Variou...
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1346
|
1925-06-01
|
Correspondence
|
Various correspondence between the MPTOA and Hess relating to Fox's failure to comply with an arbitrator's judgment agai...
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2039
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1925-06-01
|
Contract
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Agreement between MPPDA and Theater Owners Chamber of Commerce, seeking to resolve conflicts between distributors and ex...
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253
|
1925-06-02
|
Letter
|
Weyers complains about the representation of the Hudson's Bay Company in movies, and cites an unspecified case where a L...
|
1333
|
1925-06-05
|
Memo
|
New suggests the creation of a Exhibitors' Relations department within the MPPDA in order to improve the relationship be...
|
233
|
1925-06-09
|
Memo
|
Beetson is trying to work out how to make a case to the Labor Commission that the employment of female extras should be ...
|
232
|
1925-06-13
|
Memo
|
It is currently illegal to employ women extras or wardrobe women for more than eight hours per day. Beetson is negotiat...
|
231
|
1925-06-15
|
Letter
|
Frank Gilmore of Actors' Equity has been taking a tough line over actors' rights, accusing Hays of indifference, and has...
|
1344
|
1925-06-15
|
Memo
|
Memo to Hays from Hess regarding the process involved in allowing the public, as individuals, to become members of the M...
|
256
|
1925-06-16
|
Memo
|
Harry Warner announces that Vitagraph, now under Warners' control, has rejoined the MPPDA after its much-publicized depa...
|
230
|
1925-06-19
|
Letter
|
Morgan inquires about labor regulations pertaining to children in response to a request by the German government, which ...
|
1321
|
1925-06-19
|
Resolution
|
Resolution adopted by the AMPP of California regarding its opposition to so-called tours around the United States by mot...
|
1337
|
1925-07-01
|
Bulletin/circular
|
The MPPDA is giving ten feature stories by "nationally-famous authors" written specifically for the purpose of promoting...
|
1339
|
1925-07-03
|
Miscellaneous
|
Various correspondence involving the Connecticut Tax Law Case. Included here is a large number of the court documents.Do...
|
1340
|
1925-07-03
|
Contract
|
Copy of a Fox Film Corporation Specials Contract.
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1328
|
1925-07-08
|
Record of meeting
|
Copyright legislation. Meeting of the subcommittee elected to redraft the Perkins Bill. Meeting an attempt to determine ...
|
3216
|
1925-07-13
|
Letter
|
Letter endorsing Greater Movie Season: "Such a movement to emphasize the desirability of worthy motion pictures will be ...
|
3211
|
1925-07-15
|
Letter, contract
|
Walker has reviewed and rewritten Equity's proposed "weekly motion picture contract" for actors. Contract is attached.
|
239
|
1925-08-11
|
Letter
|
Woll is upset that motion picture printing is often not produced in union shops, and does not carry the Allied Printing ...
|
1347
|
1925-08-24
|
Correspondence
|
Various correspondence between the MPTO in Minneapolis and Pettijohn and Hess relating to the Uniform Exhibition Contrac...
|
1336
|
1925-09-08
|
Miscellaneous
|
Greater Movie Season Celebration. Various press releases relating to a national essay writing contest, "What The Motion ...
|
245
|
1925-10-05
|
Memo
|
Red Seal Picture Corp., makers of Inkwell cartoons, wants to join the MPPDA. Smith is against it because they are too s...
|
255
|
1925-10-22
|
Articles/essays
|
Tract after tract about the enlightening power of motion pictures, by Lamar Trotti. Includes "The Attitude of the Church...
|
2046
|
1925-11-12
|
Court ruling
|
Documents relating to a case between author Paramore and Mack Sennett Corporation, over the use of the title "Yukon Jake...
|
235
|
1925-11-27
|
Miscellaneous
|
Documents relating to the establishment and promotion of the Central Casting Corporation, partly designed to stem the ti...
|
1338
|
1925-12-01
|
Miscellaneous
|
Various correspondence regarding legal advice on the judgment in the Paramore vs. Sennett copyright case. Relates to the...
|
1349
|
1925-12-03
|
Letters
|
Large number of replies to letters sent by Hays asking various institutions: what the motion picture means to your insti...
|
2036
|
1925-12-08
|
Memo
|
membership of law committee
|
2038
|
1925-12-15
|
Letter
|
Submitting a copy of the Rules of Film Boards of Trade for the establishment of Credit Committees
|
1354
|
1926-01-01
|
Pamphlet
|
"Helping the "Extra" in Movies" promotes the new Central Casting Bureau which opened in January.
|
2044
|
1926-01-01
|
Correspondence, contracts, memos
|
Documents on the Standard Exhibition Contract or Uniform Exhibition contract, between distributors, exhibitors and MPPDA...
|
257
|
1926-01-07
|
Memo
|
Examples of both "good" and "bad" advertising.
|
277
|
1926-01-16
|
Draft of letter
|
Joy quotes the professional opinions of Dr George W. Kirchwey and Dr Sanger Brown that movies do not cause crime; on the...
|
278
|
1926-01-16
|
Report
|
"Opinions of a Few Prominent People that Motion Pictures Do Not Cause Juvenile Delinquency." These include prison and c...
|
1364
|
1926-01-21
|
Letter
|
Weeks is informing Hays of the proposed new tax currently being discussed in the Virginia General Assembly. It is a ten ...
|
279
|
1926-01-31
|
Correspondence & report
|
Chicago National Motion Picture Conference, hostile to the industry, voted to underwrite a psychological study of motion...
|
1353
|
1926-01-31
|
Report
|
"Report on the Health and Working Conditions in the Motion Picture Industry in Hollywood" by Dr Lee K. Frankel. Discusse...
|
266
|
1926-02-02
|
Correspondence & memos
|
This is a large volume of material relating to the Film Boards of Trade: business relations, arbitration, anti-trust qu...
|
264
|
1926-02-09
|
Pamphlet
|
"Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis on Censorship," published by the MPPDA. Dr. Hillis is a clergyman and author.
|
282
|
1926-02-10
|
Speech
|
Ramsaye provides a history of the industry, emphasising that the Motion Picture Patents Company was run by Gentiles, and...
|
299
|
1926-02-10
|
Letter
|
Zierler's case provides a good example of a small independent exhibitor shut out of the industry through lack of access ...
|
3225
|
1926-02-10
|
Pamphlet
|
Pamphlet announcing the Fourth National Motion Picture Conference.
|
276
|
1926-02-15
|
Press statement
|
Court statistics show that juvenile delinquency is decreasing despite the popular impression. The statement draws a con...
|
297
|
1926-02-16
|
Essays/articles/speeches
|
This is a large volume of articles by Lamar Trotti on various pro-movie topics: Books and Films; identification with sta...
|
1350
|
1926-02-16
|
Miscellaneous
|
The Regional Distributors Association has applied for, and been granted, membership to the MPPDA. Association concerned ...
|
1362
|
1926-02-16
|
Various
|
The Eastman Kodak Company is starting a two year experiment in making motion pictures more available to schools througho...
|
1368
|
1926-02-18
|
Memo
|
Beetson keeping Hays informed about the plans for independent producers on the West Coast forming a new association. Inc...
|
284
|
1926-02-26
|
Letter
|
Canavan informs Hays of a resolution taken by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Pictur...
|
2043
|
1926-02-27
|
Press release
|
"Comprehensive survey of public taste furnished in analysis of de Mille Contest." Outcomes of a contest by de Mille and ...
|
271
|
1926-03-03
|
Record of speech
|
Hays gave this speech at a dinner given by the Federal Council of Churches at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. It was the eve...
|
269
|
1926-04-08
|
Letter and report
|
The Federal Council of Churches Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America (FCCCA) has appointed a Sub-Committee o...
|
3278
|
1926-04-26
|
Memo
|
Hess and Grosvenor memo on conference with Thompson of DoJ. Difference of opinion relates to one paragraph (Paragraph 3...
|
261
|
1926-05-01
|
Correspondence & resolution
|
The L.A. District Board, California Federation of Women's-Clubs, informs Hays that they have passed a resolution opposin...
|
262
|
1926-05-01
|
Letter to editor
|
Extract from Pollock's letter to the Daily News, N.Y.C. In part, "Censorship, here and in England, never kept genuine i...
|
275
|
1926-05-01
|
Poem
|
This poem, by James J. Montague, makes fun of the tendency to blame movies and jazz for the restless behaviour of the yo...
|
270
|
1926-05-12
|
Memo and report
|
Andrews submits a detailed draft proposal for the Church and Drama Association to Joy and others of the Public Relations...
|
1356
|
1926-05-16
|
Newspaper article
|
Clipping from "The Film Daily" entitled "Scientific Casting" promoting the new casting bureau and the Motion Picture Ind...
|
1363
|
1926-05-19
|
Memo
|
Information regarding the Palmer Photoplay Corporation, now operating as the Palmer Institute of Authorship. The Nationa...
|
1358
|
1926-05-20
|
Correspondence
|
Various correspondence regarding the Music Tax License and the problems of taxable and non-taxable music sheets for exhi...
|
1352
|
1926-05-21
|
Miscellaneous
|
Information regarding the proposal for a new Archives Building in Washington, including a facility for storing motion p...
|
3279
|
1926-05-26
|
Memo
|
Memo replying to Mr. Lotts memorandum (to Colonel Donovan of DoJ dated 09-24-1925, and dealing with the two Kentucky cas...
|
830
|
1926-06-14
|
Letter
|
Early correspondence about King of Kings and Andrews' willingness to co-operate under conditions spelled out in the lett...
|
854
|
1926-06-14
|
Letter
|
George Reid Andrews makes his proposition to Hays concerning his own role in the production of King of Kings (10% of the...
|
1355
|
1926-06-18
|
Letter
|
AMPP calling for the introduction of "the same term in all studios for the same class of work and that so far as possibl...
|
288
|
1926-06-24
|
Letter
|
Castle is is Chief of Western European Division, Department of State. He is concerned about reports that Armored Cruise...
|
280
|
1926-06-26
|
Memo
|
A useful summary of the Public Relations Department's activities, current and projected. (Note especially the plans for ...
|
289
|
1926-06-28
|
Letter
|
Not only is Potemkin already available in the U.S., but Mr Zamkovoy of Sovkino is trying to get Bolshevik shots into all...
|
1360
|
1926-06-29
|
Miscellaneous
|
Pierre Artigue, patent owner of a "glass shot process" (painting scenery onto a shadowgraph screen), is suing Famous Pla...
|
281
|
1926-07-14
|
Memo
|
Apparently a summary of Hays Office activities under the purview of Milliken, incorporating Joy memo (02-2026 - 02-2032)...
|
1361
|
1926-07-15
|
Correspondence
|
Correspondence regarding the formation of a committee on patents. Includes a report on patent matters.
|
290
|
1926-07-16
|
Letter
|
Films available from Sovkino in the U.S., including a synopsis of The Wedding of the Bear.
|
292
|
1926-07-19
|
Letter
|
Castle asks Coffin about Potemkin, which he saw with Fairbanks and Pickford ('Doug and Mary'). Coffin recognizes the po...
|
3277
|
1926-07-19
|
Memo
|
Report on investigation into Film Boards of Trade: "As I am convinced that no satisfactory evidence of oppression or har...
|
3276
|
1926-07-21
|
Letter and report
|
Letter enclosing memo on Special Agent Martins (DoJ) report of 01-16-1926 on Cincinnati FBT. Martin spent two weeks in ...
|
291
|
1926-07-28
|
Letter
|
Concern that Zamkovoy is negotiating with U.A. to make Russian propaganda pictures in the U.S., particularly The Death B...
|