The motion picture industry (1933)

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452 <^> ^> -C> <^> <^> <^> ^> *C> ^> Index Standard Exhibition Contract, 265— 268 and advertising, 230-232 arbitration under, 268-298 provisions of, 58 (see also New Standard Exhibition Contract) Standard Form Artists Contract, 122 124 Standard License Agreement, 230, 293-294 Standardization impossibility of, 136 Stars extravagance in use of, 117, 136 reputation of, reliance upon, 8-9, 137 salaries of, 118 use of, 117-122; waste in, 136 versus plot, 137 State-right distribution, 11 Stock company list of Paramount Publix Corporation, 33 Stories preparation of, waste in, 132 record of material for, 32 Story departments duties of, 31-32, 99 records of, 32 wastes in, 132 Stratification, 82-83 Style cycles for motion pictures, 93, 108 Subjects, repellent censorship of, 387 Subsequent-run theaters, 109, 114 (see also Second-run theaters) Substitution of actors, 136 Success of films caused by reputation of star, 137; by technical improvements, 137-141 forecasting, 81-116 without stars, 119 Suitability of films for young people, 365, 390, 392 Swanson chain, 9 Sweden motion picture theaters in, 401 (see also Scandinavia) Switzerland motion picture theaters in, 401 1 alking pictures censorship of, 380-392 market for, 343-344 novelty of, 94-95 Tally, T. L., 2 Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation, 138-139 Temperamental acts of actors, 120, 136 Terms of sale, 12 percentage, 50, 55, 66, 75, 189, 196200, 252 (see also Rentals) Texas (see Dallas Film Board of Trade) Thacher decree, 213, 290-291 Theaters chains of, 9, 17, 21, 85, 336-364 in foreign countries, 400-402 legitimate, 92-93, 100-103, 239-240 operating expenses of, 315 organization, internal, of, 67-69 ownership of, by independent exhibitors, 299-335 ; by producer-distributors, 13-14, 16-22, 205 types of, change in, 9 Third dimension, 140-141 Tiffany Productions, Incorporated exploitation by, 308 Timeliness importance of, 107-109, 115 Titles censorship of, 387 Tobis-Klangfilm, 430 Tobis Theaters Corporation, 403, 429 Trade papers advertising in, 233-244 as sources of information, 85 Trade Practice Conference of 1927, 178, 265-266, 276-278