The motion picture industry (1933)

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Index <^> <^> <z> *z> <^> <^> <^> <^> <^> 453 Trade, restraint of, 313 by protection, 208 Trailers, 242-251 Training of theater managers, 348-351 Trans-Lux Picture Screen Corporation, 334 Trusts, 6 {see also Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Unfair trade practices) Turkey motion picture theaters in, 401 Ufa, 403, 423, 430 Unaffiliated Independent Motion Picture Exhibitors of America on arbitration, 274 Unfair trade practices, 5-6, 12, 142180, 208, 299 {see also Arbitration. Censorship) Uniform Contract of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Incorporated, 264-265 {see also Standard Exhibition Contract) Unit method of production, 98 Unit system, 105 United Artists Corporation advertising by, 66 and protection, 228 distribution by, 66-67 organization of, 66-67 percentage sale by, 66 unit method of sale by, 142, 166-167 United Kingdom, 397-398 United States Bureau of the Census, 13, 29, 48 United States Department of Commerce, 403 United States Department of Justice, 275 United States Department of State action of, with regard to foreign restrictions, 405-406 United States Supreme Court sustaining of Thacher decree by, 292 United States v. Motion Picture Patents Company, 307 Universal Pictures Corporation advertising by, 87 analysis of public reactions by, 8788 Anne Nichols v., 130-131 block booking by, 151-152 expansion of, 339 history of, 15, 22 importation of foreign-language film by, 428 psychological research by, 87-88 Universal Talking Newsreel, 136 Unsatisfactory pictures release of, 110-115 Upshaw bill, 376-378 Value of pictures, 201 {see also Price) Variety, 84, 361 Violations of release dates, 12 of Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 208-212 Volume of production, 54, 66, 96-97 Vulgarity censorship of, 386 War, World effect of, on European production, 395 Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., 22-23 production of trailers by, 245-251 use of stars by, 122 Waste in production, 117, 136 in story preparation, 132 Weekly production control report of Paramount Publix Corporation, 46 West Coast Theaters, 22 Western Electric Company, 25-26 Westinghouse, 27 Wholesaling as distinguished from block booking, 154-155