The motion picture industry (1933)

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450 ^> -v> ^> <^> -Q> ^> -Q> *^> Index Metro-Goldvvyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation and, 228 Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Incorporated, and, 213, 216 of independent exhibitors, 299-335 Plans of Allied States Association of Motion Picture Distributors, 223-226 relation of, to pricing, 205 Provincialism of Hollywood, 106-107 Psychological study of public's reaction, 87-88 Public, the appeal to, 107 reaction of, to films, 87-88 {see also Audiences) Purchasing methods cooperative, 320-324 of Fox Theaters Corporation, 70-71 (Quality as affected by volume of production, 96-97 Quota of pictures French, 404-418 German, 399-404 Quota of sales, 53 rvadio Corporation of America, 26-27 relations of, with RKO, 77-78 Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corporation, 308 cooperative advertising by, 254-257 operation of automatic theaters by, 334 organization of, 76-78 policy of, as to withholding releases, 110-116 use of stars by, 122 Ramsaye, Terry, 2n RCA Photophone, Incorporated, 26 Reaction of public to films, 87-88 {see also Legitimate theater) Receipts box office, 44, 83-84, 92 Records of contracts, 35 of customers' service, 57 of directors, 34 of players at work, 33 of production programs, 38 of profits, 49 of rentals, 49 of stock company, 33 of story materials, 32 "Reducing", 108 Rehearsals, 45 Relations between producer and distributor, 13-14, 16-22, 64 between producer-distributor and exhibitor, 16-22, 64, 67, 84, 142-180 Release of unsatisfactory pictures, 110-115 schedules of Paramount Publix Corporation, 41-43 violations of dates of, 12 Religion treatment of, in films, 387 Rentals, 55, 191n by foreign producers, 75, 393-394 in early days, 2-6 of Pathe pictures, 55 of trailers, 245 summary of, by Paramount Publix Corporation, 49 {see also Terms of sale) Repeat demand, 203 Repellent subjects censorship of, 387 Requisitioning of prints by Pathe Exchange, Incorporated, 59 Research {see Production, planning for) Responsibility for Better Motion Pictures, 380-382 Restraint of trade, 313 by protection, 208 Revenue from pictures, 201-202