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OF THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY

SELZNICK INTERNATIONAL PICTURES, INC.

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REBECCA

The best-seller novel by Daphne du Maurier, which has soared to more than 400,000 sales within a gear and has been given spectacular additional circula- tion of 3,000,000 in a national magazine, with a star-studded cast including Laurence Olivier, Judith Anderson, Reginald Denng, George Sanders, Florence Bates and Nigel Bruce. Directed bg

Alfred Hitchcock. Released thru United Artists

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^^kF century ago in a West Orange, N. J., laboratory, the

^Hrborn, thanks to the sparks of creative genius that inspired ison to perfect his Kinetoscope and George Eastman to devise a

suitably flexible film base for photographic emulsions.

In the five short decades that have elapsed, the little black box of Edison and the first motion picture film of Eastman have developed through a multi- tude of refinements until today their modern prototypes provide the world's entertainment.

Industry's cavalcade of empire offers no parallel to the spectacular, magi- cal rise of the motion picture. From the exceedingly humble beginnings of a $6}7.67 tar-paper shack studio, 800-feet "epics" and stores-turned-nickel- odeons, it has, in less than the span of a single generation, mushroomed into a major American enterprise representing $2,050,000,000 in invested capital.

To that development, men and companies, big and little, have contributed their all. The roll is an impressive one, and it will be more so as the world of tomorrow works its own magic. The motion picture by its very nature cannot be static; it must ever be in the state of flux.

In presenting this volume, there is no pretense that it constitutes a history of the industry. Rather is it offered as a true cavalcade of its builders of empire, thus bringing into bold relief outstanding personalities and leading companies — their yesterdays, their todays and their tomorrows.

Inevitably, in such an undertaking, there are gaps, for between the peaks there must be valleys. Inevitably, too, the spotlight must shine brightest for those now charting the course, for it is in the present that we look for a key to the future.

So, then, to all who have ridden, who now ride and who will ride in the industry's cavalcade, THE FILM DAILY dedicates this volume.

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FAMOUS PRODUCTIONS, Inc.

HARRY EDINGTON, President

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with John Howard, Alan Hale, George Bancroft, George Sanders, Vincent Price, Gene Garrick

DIRECTED BY JAMES WHALE

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HE motion picture, now completing half a century of progress, is indigenous to America.

Nowhere, except in a land which so val- ues freedom, could it have developed as it has done and reached the heights it has at- tained. The motion picture was born in a country which permitted men to risk their money on their own ideas. In its early years it was left to make its own way as best it could. It found its own food, its own clothing and its own education. It made its own way from the side streets to the business sections and the boulevards. During these 50 years it discovered the value and importance of ethics, and that education is an asset. Fighting its way up, it became a force in the community, while retaining the strength and the stamina and the sense of values that only struggle brings.

On its way to become an art-industry, it learned the price of rising in the world, the obligations of responsibility and the necessity for self-regulation. Of all in- dustries, ours is the most striking example of the system of self-government. The mo- tion picture rules itself in the American way.

Today, the motion picture is the symbol of that liberty in which democracies be- lieve. Pictures are made under the liberty

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of free choice, limited only by the boun- daries of good taste.

Today, the miracle of the movies makes it possible for man to travel on the wings of the wind, for him to see the peoples and places of the earth without leaving his own community, for him to share the thoughts, hopes, aspirations and triumphs of the great figures of history through all time. This the motion picture has done for our civilization.

Since our constantly improving methods bring us a maximum of service, our prob- lem is no longer mainly one of means, but of use. Universal distribution and dis- semination are accomplished facts. That leaves us with the responsibility to see that these miracles of man are best used to fur- ther the highest good of the individual, the community and the nation. This desired result can be obtained only by a combina- tion of the ability to give and the ability to receive. Nothing is of great importance to the world unless it can be transmitted to the use and understanding of all the people.

In these broader aspects the American motion picture, while adhering as it should and must to its primary function — enter- tainment— has well served our people and our democracy.

Fifty years! A brief span as time is reckoned, but in so short a space the Ameri- can motion picture has come to be a most vital element in contemporary civilization. Its services must continue in future to be used in the interest of all the people.

Much that the motion picture has ac- complished has been well set forth in this Cavalcade number of The Film Daily, commemorating the 50th Anniversary. But all of us will agree, I know, that limitless opportunities lie ahead, and so today, in a very real sense, we are celebrating not the ending but the beginning of an era.

For all that the screen has done, for all that it promises in future, the industry can justly be proud on this occasion.

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^[5 It Was In The Beginning

In 1922, climaxing repeated advocacy on the part of industry leaders that an organization be formed to co-ordinate the general and manifold in- terests of filmland, MPPDA was founded with Will H, Hays, former Postmaster General of the United States, as president. Pictured above is the board of directors as it was in the beginning. Standing (left to right): W infield R. Sheehan, Myron Selz- nick, Rufus Cole, Courtland Smith, William Fox, Sam- uel Goldwyn, William E. Atkinson, R. H. Coch- rane. Seated (left to right): Lewis J. Selz- nick, Earle W. Hammons, John D. Williams, Will H. Hays, Adolph Zukor, Marcus Loew, Carl Laemmle.

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SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON"

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By WINFIELD ANDRUS Film Daily Staff

— 1872 —

In an attempt to prove that a horse's four hoofs leave the ground at one time while running, Leyland Stanford, California sportsman and railway magnate, assigns John D. Isaacs, engineer, and Eadweard Muybridge, photographer, to set up a row of cameras and take a series of pictures of a horse in motion. Results prove Stan- ford's contention, and are probably the first picture analysis of motion.

_ 1880 —

Jean Louis Meisonier acquires some of the Muybridge photos and arranges them on a projection zoetropic machine (modeled on an invention of Henry Renno Heyl, Phila- delphia engineer and inventor). Projected pictures are used to support his contro- versey with the French Academy over ani- mal postures.

— 1887 —

Thomas A. Edison, casting about for a sight device to tie in with his phonograph, starts William K. L. Dickson at work on a machine to take and view pictures in mo- tion. Early attempts to achieve this goal with a cylinder device, similar to his phono- graph, are not successful and they begin ex- periments with belt or tape devices.

— 1889 —

William Friese-Green, of England, who has been experimenting with photographing motion pictures on paper, patents Kine- malography — the taking of pictures on cel- luloid, the basis for motion picture pho- tography.

George Eastman, seeking a roll film for his Kodak, begins manufacture of a photo- graphic material with a nitrocellulose base. Edison buys a sample to use in his motion picture device.

By October, Edison and Dickson develop their device and bring out the first Kinet- oscope, a peep-show machine through which one person can view motion pictures. (The Kinetoscope used the same width film as that used today, but photographed and showed pictures at the rate of 40-odd ex- posures a second, compared with the present 24 a second rate) .

— 1891 —

Edison patents the Kinetoscope in the United States, but does not think enough of the device to spend about $150 to cover it in foreign countries.

— 1893 —

The first motion picture studio, "The Black Maria," is built in West Orange, N. J. by Edison. Structure, built to revolve on a circular rail so as to control the rays of the sun for photographic purposes, cost about $600.

Kinetoscope Co., formed by Norman C. Raff, Thomas R. Lombard and Frank R. Gammon, to exploit Edison's Kinetoscope.

— 1894 —

On April 14, the Kinetoscope makes its first public appearance in a peep-show par- lor at 115 5 Broadway, New York. Machine is coin-operated and shows pictures made in * "The Black Maria."

Thomas Armat and C. Francis Jenkins

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Samuel Goldwyn

still believes in

FEWER and BETTER

pictures

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begin experiments with a machine to pro- ject motion pictures. Their first effort, the Phantoscope, is not entirely successful.

Lambda Co. formed by Professor Wood- ville Latham to experiment in motion pic- ture cameras and projectors. (The "Latham loop," enabling longer pictures resulted) .

_ 1895 —

Louis and August Lumiere, photographic manufacturers of Lyons, France, import one of Edison's Kinetoscopes and, as it is not patented in France, from it develop their own camera — the Cinematographe. By De- cember they have developed this apparatus so that it can be used to photograph, print and project motion pictures. First projec- tion with the Cinematographe in December, is at the Grand Cafe, Paris.

The Lumieres, on perfecting their ma- chine, send several cameramen to travel through Europe photographing and screen- ing motion pictures, thus building up a library of moving picture subjects. (The Lumiere machine established the photo- graphic rate of 16 images a second, which was standard until sound made it necessary to increase the speed.

Meanwhile, Armat, following the partial failure of his and Jenkins' Phantoscope, goes on with projection experiments alone. Mid- year he discovers the principal of the modern projector, the movement which gives each picture a period of rest and illumination in excess of the period of movement from image to image, and is able to show motion pictures in Atlanta during September.

J. Stuart Blackton, Albert E. Smith and William "Pop" Rock pool their resources to form Vitagraph.

— 1896 —

Pressure being brought on Edison to pro- vide a projector for his Kinematograph sub- jects; he has little interest in the proposition, but finally agrees to market the Armat ma- chine under the Edison name. Device, re- named the Vitascope, has its first public showing at Koster & Bial's Music Hall, Her- ald Square, New York, on the night of April 23.

Dickson, in the meantime, has left the Edison fold and after a stay with the Lathams joins E. B. Koopman, H. N. Mar- vin and Herman Casler of the K.M.C.D. Syndicate to develop the photographic side of the Mutoscope, a card wheel peep-show, and the American Biograph, a projector using wider film than the Edison devices. First public projection of the Biograph is at Hammerstein's Music Hall in November.

In London, Robert W. Paul demonstrates a projector at the Royal Institute on Feb. 28.

With projection comes censorship. De- lorita's "Passion Dance" is banned in At- lantic City, N. J.

— 1897 —

Utilizing the "Latham loop," a method to supply slack film to the intermittent mo- tion of the camera, Enoch Rector is able to photograph an 11,000 foot wide film ver- sion of the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight at Carson City, Nev. — by far the longest pic- ture made.

In Pittsburgh, John P. Harris and Harry Davis open the first "Nickelodeon."

Legal wars (that for years retarded mo- tion picture development) are started in De- cember with Edison's series of patent in- fringement suits. His chief adversary is the American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., with Wall Street backing.

— 1898 —

Rich G. Hollaman, of the Eden Musee, produces the first staged motion picture. In an attempt to beat out Klaw & Erlanger who have authentic shots of the Horitz Pas- sion Play, Hollaman stages a synthetic ver- sion on the roof of Grand Central Palace. Although the hoax is exposed, Hollaman has produced the first fictionized picture.

_ 1899 —

Motion picture photography with arti- ficial light demonstrated as Biograph shoots the Jeffries-Sharkey fight at Coney Island the night of Nov. 3, using a battery of 400 arc lamps.

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the PRODUCER of

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MAJOR BARBARA

CANDIDA DOCTOR'S DILEMMA

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_ 1900 —

Blackton, Smith and Rock incorporate Vitagraph with $6,000 capital.

— 1902 —

First "Electric Theater," charging 10 cents admission, opened in Los Angeles by Thomas L. Talley.

_ 1903 —

Up to this time motion picture audiences have been satisfied with practically anything that would move on a screen, but are es- pecially pleased with thrill scenes. Edwin S. Porter, an Edison cameraman, noticing this reaction decides to stage pictures for the screen. His first attempt at realistic story telling is "The Life of an American Fireman," an instantaneous success. Follow- ing comes "The Great Train Robbery," a one-reeler with a sustained suspenseful plot. Film is a sensation. (On it were built the careers of many of today's motion picture

The Warner brothers, Harry Albert, Sam and Jack buy a projector and a print of "The Great Train Robbery" and go into the roadshow exhibition field.

— 1906 —

Tiring of undependable sunlight, Bio- graph abandons roof-top production and moves to a studio, at 11 E. 14th St., equipped with Cooper-Hewitt mercury tubes. Other producers soon followed suit.

Carl Laemmle opens his first theater, in Chicago.

William Fox, in association with Sol Brill, buys his first arcade and film theater.

_ 1907 —

Exterior shots for Selig's "The Count of Monte Cristo" are shot in Los Angeles — first Coast production.

D. W. Griffith turns to the screen from the stage. (His developments in technique, while with Biograph, include the close-up, flashback, fade-out and dissolve).

Essanay Film Manufacturing Co. organ- ized in Chicago by George K. Spoor and G. M. Anderson.

Kalem formed by George Kleine, Samuel Long and Frank Marion.

— 1908 —

On Dec. 18, the 11 year war between Edison and Biograph comes to an end with both companies in equal positions of leader- ship. To insure their control of the industry, Edison and Biograph, with George Kleine, Vitagraph, Lubin, Selig, Essanay, Pathe, Kalem and Melies, form the Motion Picture Patents Company and institute a system of cross-licensing.

Bison Life Motion Pictures formed by Adam Kessel, Charles Bauman, Fred Bal- shafer and Louis Burston.

_ 1909 —

Kinemacolor, first color motion picture process, is introduced in London by G. A. Smith and Charles Urban, and later shown in New York.

Mary Pickford joins Biograph.

National Board of Censorship of Motion Pictures (later National Board of Review) formed by the People's Institute.

— 1910 —

The General Film Co., an outgrowth of the Patents Co., is formed by Jeremiah J. Kennedy, representing the Empire Trust Co., holder of Biograph mortgage bonds, and soon has control of most of the 100 ex- changes in the U. S. and Canada.

D. W. Griffith starts a policy of produc- ing in Los Angeles during the Eastern cold months.

Watterson R. Rothacker starts produc- tion of industrial films in Chicago.

Thanhouser formed to produce in New Rochelle.

American Pathe starts production in Bound Brook, N. J.

— 1912 —

John R. Freuler and Harry E. Aitken form Mutual Film Corp., taking in a num- ber of independent exchanges.

Universal Film Manufacturing Co. formed by Carl Laemmle and associates, and acquires an exchange system.

These companies, along with William Fox and others, are the leaders in a strong fight

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against the "trust" — the Patents Co. First signal victory of the independents is in the decision of Fox vs. the "trust," in which an injunction forcing the Patents Co. to give film to the Fox exchange is granted.

Adolph Zukor, operating theaters in New York, imports "Queen Elizabeth," a four- reel picture starring Sarah Bernhardt. Out- come of this move is the formation of Famous Players Film Co., which includes in its personnel: Zukor, Edwin S. Porter, Elek J. Ludvigh, Daniel Frohman and Al Lichtman. Famous distributes "Queen Eliza- beth" as a road show, then on a state rights basis, and then goes into production for it- self. Patent Co. members object to Famous' long features and the company is forced to go "independent."

— 1913 —

Box Office Attractions is formed by William Fox as a national distributor.

George Kleine imports "Quo Vadis," an eight-reeler, from Italy and plays it at the N. Y. Astor at $1.00.

George Loane Tucker, with the assistance of Jack Cohn, Herbert Brenon, King Bag- got and Bob Daily, produces "Traffic in Souls" — first "sex" picture — for Universal. Film costs $5,700 and grosses about $450,- 000.

Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Co., capital $26,500, formed by Arthur Friend, Samuel Goldwyn and Cecil B. DeMille. First film produced by the new company is "The Squaw Man," starring Dustin Farnum, and produced at the famous Lasky barn (which still stands on the Paramount Coast lot) .

— 1914 —

Under the leadership of W. W. Hodkin- son, Western exchangeman, Paramount Pic- tures Corp. is formed by Hodkinson, Hiram Abrams of Boston, L. W. Sherry of New York, Raymond Pawley of Philadelphia and James Steele of Pittsburgh. Company to ad- vance funds for production and release the product of Famous Players, Lasky and Bos- worth.

Zukor signs Mary Pickford to a $2,000 a week contract to make pictures for Famous.

Strand Theater, New York, first "deluxe" house, opened.

Mack Sennett produces "Tillie's Punc- tured Romance," with Charlie Chaplin and Marie Dressier — first feature length comedy.

— 1915 —

"The Birth of a Nation," produced by D. W. Griffith, opens in Los Angeles under title "The Clansman"; March 3, the film opens at the Liberty, N. Y., at $2.00.

William Fox starts production of his own pictures, releasing through his Box Office Attractions; one of his early productions is "A Fool There Was," starring Theda Bara in her first film.

Adolph Zukor, through Waybroad Film Co., leases the Broadway Theater as a "show window" for his Famous pictures.

World Film Corp. formed, headed by Ar- thur Spiegel with Lewis J. Selznick, former Universal executive, as vice-president and general manager.

Metro Pictures Corp. formed with Rich- ard Rowland as president, Joseph Engel, treasurer and Louis B. Mayer, secretary.

V. L. S. E. formed to distribute pictures of Vitagraph, Lubin, Selig and Essanay.

Courts order the Patents Co. to desist from "unlawful acts."

John R. Freuler succeeds H. E. Aitken as president of Mutual; Aitken withdraws Re- liance-Majestic Pictures (including D. W. Griffith), while Kessel and Bauman and Keystone are withdrawn from the company.

Triangle Film Corp. formed with D. W. Griffith, Thomas Ince and Mack Sennett as producers. One of the early Griffith pic- tures for this connection is "The Lamb," starring Douglas Fairbanks of the stage.

— 1916 —

John R. Freuler, of Mutual, signs Charlie Chaplin to a contract at $10,000 a week, plus a bonus of $150,000, outbidding several other companies.

Hiram Abrams succeeds W. W. Hod- kinson as president of Paramount.

Zukor re-signs Mary Pickford to a Fa- mous contract for two years, with a guaran- tee of $1,040,000, plus a bonus up to $300,- 000 based on picture profits.

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Entertainment Plus

Romantic — Comedy —

"ETERNALLY YOURS" ~~

HUGH HERBERT, BILLIE BURKE, C. AUBREY SMITH, ZASU PITTS, BRODERICK CRAWFORD, VIRGINIA FIELD, RAYMOND WALBURN, EVE ARDEN

A TAY GARNETT PRODUCTION

Original Screenplay by Towne and Baker

Brisk Mystery — Melodrama —

"SEND ANOTHER COFFIN"

Directed by TAY GARNETT

Drama —

"HOUSE ACROSS THE BAY" joan bennett

Directed by ARCHIE MAYO

R omantic — Drama —

"MY PERSONAL LIFE"

Screenplay by JOHN MEEHAN

Drama — Intrigue —

"DYNASTY OF DEATH"

Novel by TAYLOR CALDWELL

Romantic — Adventure —

"AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS

//

JULES VERNE'S SENSATIONAL STORY GIVEN A $2,000,000 PICTURIZATION

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Famous Players-Lasky Corp., a merger of Famous Players, Lasky Feature Play Co., Bosworth, Morosco and Pallas, formed with Adolph Zukor as president, Jesse L. Lasky, producer and Samuel Goldwyn, Coast stu- dio manager.

Artcraft Pictures Corp. formed to dis- tribute the Mary Pickford productions, with Walter E. Greene as president and Al Lichtman, general manager.

Paramount Pictures Corp. acquired by Famous Players-Lasky.

Samuel Goldwyn resigns from Famous Players-Lasky to form Goldwyn Pictures Corp.

Lewis J. Selznick forms Clara Kimball Young Film Corp. to produce, and Lewis J. Selznick Enterprises, Inc., to distribute.

— 1917 —

Hodkinson forms the W. W. Hodkinson Corp. to release through General Film Co. exchanges.

Zukor buys a half interest in the Selznick company and the name is changed to Select Pictures Corp.

Myron Selznick, son of Lewis J., forms another Selznick Pictures.

Zukor forms Realart Pictures Corp.

Artcraft Pictures signs John Emerson, Anita Loos, Douglas Fairbanks, Thomas Ince, D. W. Griffith and Mack Sennett — all of the fading Triangle company.

John D. Williams and Thomas L. Talley form First National, an exhibitor franchise company. Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Norma and Constance Talmadge and Thomas H. Ince sign with the new outfit.

Famous Players-Lasky starts acquisition of theaters to insure product outlets.

Active career of the Patents Co. ended with a U. S. Supreme Court decision.

— 1918 —

Walter E. Greene becomes head of Para- mount with Al Lichtman as general man- ager.

Famous Players - Lasky absorbs Para- mount and Artcraft.

First issue of Wid's Daily, (now Film Daily) May 8.

Robertson-Cole Co., exporters, to go into production.

Future Hodkinson productions to be re- leased through Pathe.

Hiram Abrams and B. P. Schulberg re- sign from Paramount.

_ 1919 —

United Artists Corp. formed by Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin and D. W. Griffith. Oscar Price is presi- dent, and William G. McAdoo, general coun- sel.

D. W. Griffith signs three-picture pact with First National.

Vitagraph secures Kalem and Lubin prop- erties.

William R. Hearst forms Cosmopolitan Productions; to release through Paramount.

Famous Players-Lasky to build studio and laboratory in Astoria, L. I.

Lewis J. Selznick buys Zukor's interest in Select.

Petition in bankruptcy filed against Gen- eral Film Co.; company to be liquidated.

Goldwyn buys Triangle studio in Culver City.

Fox to build four story studio in New York.

Louis B. Mayer forms $5,000,000 produc- tion concern in Los Angeles.

Famous Players-Lasky takes over Charles Frohman, Inc.

Fox enters competitive field for theaters and circuits.

Famous Players-Lasky buys Putnam Bldg. as site for home offices and a theater.

Educational reorganizes and forms a $2,- 5 00,000 company with Hudson's Bay Co. as backer.

Loew's planning $5,000,000 theater ex- pansion.

Robertson-Cole to distribute through own exchanges.

Selznick secures control of World Film Co. and forms Republic Pictures with the World exchanges.

Capitol Theater, New York, opened.

Pathe to act as releasing agent for Asso- ciated Exhibitors, new cooperative organi- zation.

Associated First National Pictures, capi- tal $6,000,000 and Associated First National

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Just entering the fifth year of the

production of outstanding outdoor

adventures— The Hopalong Cassidy

and Zane Grey features, made

against Nature's background.

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Theaters, capital $1,000,000 are incor- porated.

— 1920 —

Marcus Loew buys control of Metro Pic- tures Corp.

Sydney Cohen named president of the newly formed Motion Picture Theater Own- ers of America, with James J. Walker as counsel.

Robertson-Cole takes over Hallmark ex- changes.

National Screen Service formed to pro- duce trailers; has exclusive contract with producers.

Fox moves to new building on 5 5 th Street and Tenth Avenue, N. Y. C.

Educational opens exchanges in 26 key cities.

Carl Laemmle and Robert H. Cochrane buy out P. A. Powers' interest in Universal.

Goldwyn Pictures buys interest in N. Y. Capitol; S. L. "Roxy" Rothafel to be in charge.

Selznick Enterprises incorporated with capital of $120,000,000.

C. B. C. Film Sales Co. formed by Jack and Harry Cohn and Joe Brandt.

— 1921 —

Al Lichtman resigns as general manager of distribution for Famous Players and is succeeded by S. R. Kent.

Associated Exhibitors reorganized with $3,000,000 capital; to distribute Pathe fea- tures while Pathe concentrates on short sub- ject distribution.

Robertson Cole reorganizes and merges all interests in R-C Pictures Corp.

Hodkinson and Pathe part; former to have own exchanges.

Federal Trade Commission files formal complaint against Famous Players-Lasky and others, charging violation of the Sherman and Clayton acts.

Richard A. Rowland resigns as president of Metro.

First Film Daily Golf Tournament held at Tuckahoe, N. Y.

— 1922 —

Will H. Hays resigns as Postmaster Gen- eral to organize the Motion Picture Pro- ducers and Distributors of America.

Realart absorbed in Famous Players- Lasky.

P. A. Powers becomes managing director of R-C Pictures, and Joseph I. Schnitzer, v-p and general manager.

F. J. Godsol succeeds Samuel Goldwyn as president of Goldwyn Pictures; latter re- mains as a company director.

Film Booking Offices of America to be new name of R-C Distributing Corp.

Technicolor Motion Picture Corp. dem- onstrates new color process; Technicolor, Inc. stock listed on N. Y. Curb.

DuPonts to start raw film manufacturing company.

Sol Lesser and associates form Principal Pictures.

J. D. Williams resigns as general manager of First National and is succeeded by Rich- ard A. Rowland.

Famous Players takes over interest in Black New England circuit.

— 1923 —

Famous Players in $5,700,000 deal to take over S. A. Lynch Southern theater circuit.

Joseph M. Schenck buys 20 per cent in- terest in West Coast Theaters which re- cently bought the T & D circuit, First Na- tional franchises in Northern California and New York, and the Educational fran- chise.

Irving Thalberg leaves Universal for a vice-presidency in Louis B. Mayer produc- tions.

Future Hearst Cosmopolitan produc- tions to be distributed by Goldwyn Pictures.

Fox plans $2,000,000 Coast studio.

Lewis J. Selznick out of Selznick com- pany as court approves reorganization after bankruptcy proceedings. New company, Selznick Distributing Corp., not to produce.

Marcus Loew forms vaudeville booking circuit.

Warner Bros, forms new Delaware cor- poration.

David O. Selznick, son of Lewis J., plans to produce.

Samuel Goldwyn to release through First National.

F. I. L. M. Clubs nationalized to function with new arbitration system.

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Principal Pictures buys out West Coast Theaters interest in Principal.

Balaban & Katz form $9,620,000 Dela- ware corporation.

— 1924 —

Loew's, Inc. in control of new company, Metro-Goldwyn, formed from a merger of the Goldwyn, Metro and Louis B. Mayer companies.

C. B. C. name changed to Columbia Pic- tures Corp.

Rayart formed by W. Ray Johnston.

Lee De Forest makes a two-reel talking picture of Abraham Lincoln, highlighting the Gettysburg address.

P. A. Powers and Oscar A. Price purchase Triangle assets, including about 2,000 stor- ies, from Frank W. Severn.

Consolidated Film Industries, Inc. formed in merger of Republic, Erbograph and Craftsmen laboratories; later takes over Standard plant in Los Angeles.

Stanley Company of America opens of- fices in New York, reported ambitious to develop a national circuit.

Admission tax lifted on tickets under 50 cents.

Hodkinson changes name to Producers Distributing Corp.

Walter Wanger becomes general manager of Famous Players production.

Joseph M. Schenck sells his interest in West Coast Theaters.

UFA, of Germany, opens office in New York.

Selznick Distributing Corp., in involun- tary bankruptcy, ordered to cease business; assets bought by Universal.

Joseph M. Schenck joins United Artists.

— 1925 —

Motion Picture Relief Fund chartered in Hollywood.

Cecil B. DeMille leaves Paramount and joins Producers Distributing Corp.; in re- turn for his interest in the Ince studio, DeMille is to receive a block of PDC com- mon stock.

Universal adds Sparks, Schine and Hostet- tler circuits to its growing circuit.

A. H. Blank circuit becomes affiliated

with Balaban & Katz; over 100 houses in- volved.

Educational buys Principal studio from Sol Lesser.

James R. Grainger leaves M-G to join Fox as sales manager.

Warner Bros, buys Vitagraph, including 50 exchanges, two studios, stories and con- tracts.

Famous Players takes over Gordon circuit of 38 houses; First National franchise not included.

Samuel Goldwyn joins United Artists.

Fox buys West Coast circuit interest; Sol Lesser still in control.

B. P. Schulberg joins Paramount, taking with him Clara Bow and other players.

Fox organizes $20,000,000 company to handle theater expansion.

International Projector Corp. takes over Precision Machine Co., Nicholas Power Co. and Acme Picture Projector Corp.

Paramount buys Balaban & Katz and or- ganizes Publix Theaters.

— 1926 —

J. P. Kennedy takes control of FBO.

P. A. Powers takes over old Selig studio for Associated Exhibitors.

First National to build a studio in Bur- bank, Calif.

Sol Lesser's 30 per cent interest in West Coast Theaters purchased by Richard Hoyt Syndicate, Hayden, Stone & Co.

Joseph "Danny" Dannenberg, editor of The Film Daily, dies.

Bond issue of $6,000,000 to finance new B. F. Keith Corp. quickly subscribed.

Consolidated takes over Rothacker lab- oratory in Chicago.

Warner Bros, and Western Electric de- velop Vitaphone.

Stanley Co. acquires $80,000,000 in theater properties, including Mark Strand, Fabian, and Rowland & Clark circuits.

Keith acquires 50 per cent interest in Cinema Corp. of America which owns PDC.

Pathe takes over distribution of Associ- ated Exhibitors' product.

Production started at new DuPont-Pathe Film Manufacturing Corp. plant.

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Warner Bros, reveals Vitaphone at show- ing of "Don Juan" at the Warner Theater, N. Y.

Keith-Albee interests to spend $20,000,- 000 on new houses; $6,000,000 issue listed on Stock Exchange.

RCA perfecting a sound device.

Fox-Case Corp. to market Movietone sound device.

National Theater Supply Co. to consoli- date 50 stores into 32 branches.

Blair & Co. purchases control of Pathe.

Hiram Abrams, UA president, dies.

Paramount Theater, N. Y., opened.

Jules E. Mastbaum, president of Stanley Co., dies.

United Artists Theater Circuit formed. Columbia buys its own studio for future production.

— 1927 —

Fox-Case and Vitaphone in cross-licens- ing agreement.,

Stanley Co. and West Coast Theaters se- cure control of First National.

Fanchon & Marco plans national presenta- tion circuit.

Pathe and PDC amalgamated with J. J. Murdock, president, and Elmer Pearson and John C. Flinn, vice-presidents.

Sol Lesser returns to the production field.

Opposition of Mary Pickford and Doug- las Fairbanks to merger of UA and M-G-M terminates negotiations.

Paramount-Famous Lasky Corp., new name of Famous Players.

Joseph M. Schenck elected president of United Artists.

Warner Bros, buys out Walter J. Rich's interest in Vitaphone Corp.; control now 100 per cent.

Fox to use Movietone in newsreel.

Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sci- ences formed in Hollywood.

Federal Trade Commission declares block booking illegal in Famous Players case.

Marcus Loew dies.

Sam Warner dies.

Commissioner Abram F. Myers presides at Federal Trade Commission-Trade Practice Conferences.

Brookhart anti-block booking bill intro- duced in Senate.

"The Jazz Singer," starring Al Jolson singing and speaking one line of dialogue, and produced by Warner Bros., premieres at the Warner, N. Y., Oct. 6 and is a sen- sational success all over the country.

Roxy Theater, seating 6,200, opened in New York.

— 1928 —

RCA, General Electric and Westinghouse acquire interest in FBO.

Fox takes control of Wesco Holding Co. (West Coast Theaters) capital stock, giving him control of 300 theaters, and, with the Stanley Co., control of First National.

Conspiracy charged by D of J in suit against distributors, MPPDA and Film Boards of Trade.

Keith-Albee-Orpheum buys into FBO.

Paramount, M-G-M and United Artists licensed for Western Electric sound.

Western Electric concedes exhibs may use sound equipment interchangeably; RCA and Western Electric using same width sound track.

Richard A. Rowland retires from First National.

Warner Bros, buys Stanley Co. control, including interest in First National; later buys 19,000 FN shares at $200 a share.

RCA buys control of Keith-Albee-Or- pheum and FBO; J. P. Kennedy retires un- der deal. Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. name of new company.

Abram F. Myers, former Trade Commis- sioner, heads Allied States as organization movement gains impetus.

— 1929 —

Fox Theaters Corp. buys control of Loew's, Inc., M-G-M, paying $125 a share to edge out Warners strong competition.

Fox drops production of silent films.

While admitting the Standard Exhibition Contract was "fair," Federal Judge T. J. Thacher in a U. S. District Court decision, declared that the compulsory arbitration sec- tion violated the Sherman anti-trust law; Judge Thacher upheld the credit system in another decision in the D of J suits.

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Warner Bros, buys Fox holdings in First National.

Columbia completes own