Ink-Stained Hollywood: The Triumph of American Cinema's Trade Press (2022)
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250 INDEX
Federal Communications Commission, 162
Federal Trade Commission (FTC), 71, 74-75, 164-65
Federation of Trade Press Associations, 32, 34-35, 38-41, 46, 49
Feuillade, Louis, 67
Film Booking Office (FBO), 129, 131-32, 220n67
Film Curb (trade paper), 184
Film Daily (trade paper): and consolidation of trade papers, 138, 142, 146; Great Depression response of, 162, 163fig.; name changes, 65; open digital access to, 2; scholarly study of, 8; and trade paper industry diffusion, 185, 191; trade papers and film industry influence (mid-1910s), 45; Year Book, 163
Film Index (trade paper), 28
film industry: actors as readers and advertisers of trade papers, 112-14; box-office reporting, 29, 87, 106, 127-28, 128b0x, 135, 145, 167-68, 201n13; budget cuts controversy (summer of 1927), 120-22, 121f1g.; consolidation and Wall Street’s role in, 131, 134, 136-38, 141, 144; dry goods merchants in, 148; early movie theaters (nickelodeons), 18-19, 19fig.; early performance industries leading to, 13-20, isfig., 17fig., 19fig.; executives and Hollywood Reporter, 176-79, 178fig.; executives profiled in trade papers, 117; feature films, defined, 201n10; film as avant-garde art, 114-17; Hollywood cultures and communities, 110-11, 112fig., 118-19, 118fig., 129-30; industrial journalism and early role in, overview, 20-23; News and World leadership roles in, 26-28, 27fig.; 1915-1935 period importance to trade papers, 11, 23; Poverty Row studios, 23, 158-59, 164, 182; scholarly study of studio system, 4; short films (mid-1910s), 29, 44; slanguage (slang) of, 123-27, 166-67, 194; trade papers transition from vaudeville to, 110, 112, 117, 123-26; transformation of (mid-1910s), 28-32; transition to sound by (late 1920s), 128-29, 135-37, 148-51; and Vendome (restaurant), 177-79, 178fig.; vertical integration of production, distribution, and exhibition by, 134-38; workers’ salary cuts during Depression, 162, 165-66, 174-76. See also distributors (film distribution); exhibitors; film reviews; individual names of executives; individual names of studios
Film Mercury (trade paper): as avant-garde trade paper, 110, 114-17, 129; digitized access to, 196; open digital access to, 2, 3; scholarly
study of history of, 231n101; and trade paper industry consolidation, 133, 147, 156; and trade paper industry diffusion, 172, 174, 179
film reviews: by Harrison, 22, 80-81, 92-99; “How Did That Picture Go at Your Theatre?,’ 67; in Motography, 93; and trade papers in mid-1910s, 31, 36, 45, 50; and Variety's transition to film industry, 127; “What the Picture Did for Me” (in Quigley’s publications), 66-67, 100, 104-6, 105/ig., 145, 148-49, 156, 180, 188
Film Row (Kansas City, Missouri), 79, 80fig.
Film Spectator (trade paper): and consolidation of trade papers, 156; Los Angeles and Hollywood culture (1920s), 22, 110, 119-22, 121f1g., 129; open digital access to, 2, 3; and trade paper industry diffusion, 172, 174, 175
Film Trade Topics (trade paper), 185-86
Film Views and Index (trade paper), 27
Film Year Book of 1922-1923, 143
Fineman, B. P., 45, 94
Finke, Nikki, 193, 194
First National (bank), 136
Fleischman, Maurice, 52, 53
flu pandemic (1918), 64
Foote, Lisle, 110
4and Street (film), 166
Fox, Fred W, 117-19
Fox, William, 75, 95, 143, 165
Fox (company), 133, 135, 155, 165, 227-28n36
Frohman, Charles, 15
Fuller-Seeley, Kathryn, 5, 106, 149, 164, 188
Gable, Clark, 166
General Film Company (GFC), 28, 29
Georgetown University Library, 10, 190, 227N30
Gevinson, Alan, 45
Gold Diggers of 1933 (film), 166
Golden, George Fuller, 69
Goldman Sachs, 136
Goldreyer, Charles, 52
Goldwyn, Samuel, 119
Goldwyn Pictures, 112/ig.
Gomery, Douglas, 4, 65, 136
Gore, Michael M., 91-92, 93
Grau, Robert, 37, 66
Great Depression: and film workers’ salary cuts, 162, 165-66, 174-76; and trade paper industry consolidation (midto late-1920s), 154-59; and trade paper industry diffusion, 162-66,
163fig. Green, Abel, 169