United Artists Corporate Minutes (Jan-Dec 1931)

Page scan 00072 from United Artists Corporate Minutes

Record Details:

Title:
United Artists Corporate Minutes
Date:
Jan-Dec 1931
Volume:
United Artists Corporate Minutes (1931)
Leaf #:
00072
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion Pictures
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Contributor:
Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
Sponsor:
Mary Pickford Foundation
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
August 27, 2022
Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

i eet =—o— et dispose of one or two exchanges. The first exchange to be disposed of was the It¢gltan, exchenze end a contract was nade with lr. Luperini, our Ftaifan meneger, to teke over the operation, thereby relieving the Corporetion of the possibility of the operatiag losses ané*st the tine’ tae the liability for liquidating dameges payable to employees, which woule probably amount -to $50,000. ar se : : The Chairmen steted thet it might be necesse? in the future, in order to meiatein eeftein of the Foreign exchanges, se give them dubbed versions in the various lengusces of some of our producer's pictures. mete ccmy ee “The chairasn Stated that he realized thet _ it would mean Baditionel investment on the pert of. the producer end ‘therefore felt that © special arrengement should be made for dubbed versions. ; | “the | Chairmen where 4 that it might be neqessa! for ic ieee to finance the dubbing of the veri weFious Lengual of our varidus producer's pictures and for United Artists to essume the cost of came and take en interest in the profits. It was moved by Mr. Buckley, seconded by Mr,. Neyfaeck and unanimously cerried, that the chairman is hereby empowered, at his discretion, to errange with any of our producers*to finance dubbed foreign leneusge versions of produces pictures upon such terms end conditions as he in his judement deems shall be in the interest of the