ID Date Type Description Summary
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...
287 1926-08-01 Clipping "Before the Motion Picture Came: A Chronological Record of the Experiments and Inventions Dating Back Nearly a Century W...
293 1926-08-04 Letter Castle acknowledges recent letters from Herron concerning the Soviet film situation, and expresses the opinion that Coff...
286 1926-08-06 Memo The Patents Office is going to dispose of all old models of patents in Washington. Gentile is anxious to acquire all ea...
294 1926-08-18 Letter 'I think I have things pretty well lined up regarding the film The Death Battalion by Gloria Swanson, as I had a long ta...
1359 1926-08-23 Correspondence Various letters from the American Navy thanking the MPPDA for its commitment to educating the public on the work underta...
3272 1926-08-25 Statement Film Boards of Trade: Following complaints received from owners of moving picture theatres, the Department of Justice ha...
272 1926-08-26 Miscellaneous The Greater Movie Season is a repeat of a similar exercise tried in 1925. It is made up of a series of promotional gimm...
3273 1926-08-26 Memo The practices and agreements criticized by the Department of Justice are those which may prevent an exhibitor who has fa...
3274 1926-08-26 Press release As a result of complaints received from owners of motion picture theatres the Department has conducted an extensive inve...
3275 1926-08-26 Memo Amended Rules and Regulations for Boards of Arbitration, August 1926
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