Year book of motion pictures (1933)

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INTRODUCTION foreword 1933 ^. daily newsp;per of the motio industry, once again presents world of the screen its annual Year Book of Motion Pictures. This volume is the fifteenth edition of filmdom's encyclopedia and is universally recognized throughout the world as the standard book of reference of the motion picture industry. Before the ink is dry on the following pages, next year's edition of the Year Book will be in preparation. A staff of experienced statisticians is constantly employed. The Year Book is to be found in the library, or on the desk, of every executive. Its comprehensiveness, accuracy and reliability has made it an established tution. d until the general economic situation takes a decided change for the better, the industry can hope for little in the way of progress and genuine prosperity. It is now passing through a period of readjustment and rehabilitation. Production costs are still too high, as are operating charges and theater rentals. Television is still but a theoretical menace with its practical application to the amusement field some years away. Just as the lowest ebb is the turn of the tide, the motion picture industry seems to be, just at this time, at its zero hour. The writer, along with every industr> executive, is optimistic. With the return of prosperity this industry will stage a brilliant comeback. 1932 : was a trying year for the ndustry and its close found the fortunes of the business at their lowest ebb. The year marked the end of the so-called golden era of extravagance. It brought about the divoice of production and exhibition in the great decentralization movement that changed hundreds of theaters back into the hands of individual operators. It saw the start of a movement of disintegration culminating, as this is being written in 1933, in the receivership of mount and RKO. with probably major adjustments to follow, was especially marked by changes of executive personnel the open early Paramore The year important houses, managed by _ -nXJ--"-"" "Roxy," as a constructivc high APPRECIATION SE Daily Year Book is a volume of, for and by the motion picture industry inasmuch as every branch, studio and company in the business enthusiastically cooperates in its annual preparation. Without such help the publication of such a volume would be impossible. To all those who assist us, from the busy bees of the Hays office to the individual theater owner in Montana, and from C. J. North and his Motion Picture Division in the Department of Commerce in Washington to those film executives in foreign lands, we trust the completeness and accuracy of this book will be a just reward. To these splendid film folk, and all others who have helped to make this book possible, the editor is sincerely appreciative and most grateful. 3