Harvard business reports (1930)

INDEX 683 questionnaires submitted 115 records adopted in centralized control 359 reorganization of management 349 standardization of records 349 state right disadvantages of 28 advantages of 28 distribution through 26 loss of market 33 territorial grouping of 364 Executive organization selection of managers for chain theaters 525 Executive training theater managers' training school 531 Exhibition, motion pictures contracts, collections on 93 see also Contracts problems of 8 see also Exhibitors Exhibitor advertising see Advertising-Exhibitor Exhibitor's Cooperative, Limited 609 Exhibitors, motion pictures arbitration compulsory 642 cancellation of contracts 93 complete service plan for 273 cooperative association to promote interests 659 cooperative buying associations 13, 609, 616, 628 determining flat rental prices 572 five-year franchise to assure film supply 59° France, opposition to restriction of film imports 454 opposition to nontheatrical exhibition 341 organization to prevent nontheatrical sales 344 percentage pricing for sound pictures 59° protection, proposal to standardize 561 purchasing organization 13, 609, 616, 628 selection of sound equipment 490 Expansion distribution organization 26, 33 exhibition facilities 61 Exports, quota restrictions by importing country 454 FBO Productions, Incorporated 84, 391 Famous Players-Lasky Corporation 266 see also Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation Federal Trade Commission 226, 263, 273, 344 Film Arts Guild 543, 547 Film Boards of Trade arbitration by 646 credit committee questionnaire 378 credit rules 375 Finance company, basis of production loan 46 see also Financing Financial statements submitted to New York Stock Exchange 80, 84 Financing bankers' syndicate 61 change from bank loans to issue of stock 52 expansion of exhibition facilities 61 line of credit refused 56 production financed by bankers' loan 46 production loans discontinued 52 raising permanent capital 52 theater reconstruction 39 First National Corporation of Boston 39 First National Exhibitors' Circuit, Incorporated 13 First National Pictures, Incorporated 229 Flat rental prices, determining, by exhibitor 572 Foreign motion pictures importing, after advent of sound pictures 542 theater specializing in 542 individual rather than group selling 288 pricing 288 Foreign sales restricted by import regulations 454 France, regulation of motion picture imports 454 Franchises five-year agreement 303, 596 granted to members of exhibitors' buying association 13 see also Contracts French Film Decree 456 Greater New York Vaudeville Theaters Corporation 39 Group buying see Cooperative buying associations Guaranty in percentage pricing 325, 402, 590