To Prohibit and to Prevent the Trade Practices Known as "Compulsory Block-Booking" And "Blind Selling" Of Motion-Picture Films in Interstate and Foreign Commerce
To Prohibit and to Prevent the Trade Practices Known as

Author: United States Congress Senate

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-12

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9780260902450

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Excerpt from To Prohibit and to Prevent the Trade Practices Known as "Compulsory Block-Booking" And "Blind Selling" Of Motion-Picture Films in Interstate and Foreign Commerce: June 1 (Legislative Day, May 31), 1939 This potent faculty of an immense educational institution - to use Professor Blumer's characterization - which prescribes the curricula for classrooms, was not chosen by the parents and welfare organizations of the communities in which those classrooms are located; nor is this faculty ln any manner responsible to these parents or Welfare organizations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

To Prohibit and to Prevent the Trade Practices Known As Compulsory Block-Booking and Blind Selling of Motion-Picture Films in Interstate and Foreign Commerce
To Prohibit and to Prevent the Trade Practices Known As Compulsory Block-Booking and Blind Selling of Motion-Picture Films in Interstate and Foreign Commerce

Author: Ellison Durant Smith

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-08

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 9780260605092

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Excerpt from To Prohibit and to Prevent the Trade Practices Known as Compulsory Block-Booking and Blind Selling of Motion-Picture Films in Interstate and Foreign Commerce: June 7 (Legislative Day, June 5), 1939 The sponsors of the bill assume that each of the eight major (lead ing) producer-distributors leases to the exhibitors during each recurrent selling season its production of pictures for -the ensuing year in large blocks - often the entire output, thus affording the exhibitors no choice but to take all of the pictures offered, or none. What are the facts in connection with this charge that exhibitors must take all or none of the motion pictures produced and distributed by each of the leading companies? Several of the leading distributing companies compiled and put in the record of the hearings before the subcommittee (see pp. 268 to 271 and 303 to 305, inclusive), c'o'mp lete tabulations of the number of accounts or theaters that licensedp and exhibited each of the feature pictures released by the company during the most recent 12 months playing season for which the figures are complete. The facts flatly refute this assumption of the sponsors cf the bill and are not contradicted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.