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THE
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THE
WILL HAYS
PAPERS
Parti:
December 1921-March 1929
Part II:
April 1929-September 1945
Edited by
Douglas Gomery
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hays, Will H. (Will Harrison), 1879-1954.
The Will Hays Papers [microform].
(Cinema history microfilm series)
Held by Indiana State Library.
Includes index.
Contents: pt. 1. December 1921-March 1929 - pt. 2.
April 1929-September 1945.
1. Hays, Will H. (Will Harrison), 1879-1954Archives. 2. Motion pictures-Censorship-.-United
States. 3. Motion pictures-United States-Distribution.
4. Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of
America-History-Sources. 5. Motion picture industryUnited States-History-Sources. I. Gomery, Douglas.
II. Hydrick, Blair. III. Indiana State Library.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Scope and Content Note
Editorial Note
Source Note
Initialisms
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xvii
xviii
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Reel Index
Part I: December 1921-March 1929
Part II: April 1929-September 1945
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Subject Index
65
Appendix
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
University Publications of America (UPA) wishes to express thanks to all those whose
efforts made this microfilm edition of The Will Hays Papers possible: Charles Ray Ewick,
director, Indiana State Library; Byron Swanson, head, Indiana Division, and Marybelle
Burch, manuscript librarian, Indiana Division, Indiana State Library; and renewed thanks to
Will H. Hays, Jr., for his generosity.
IV
INTRODUCTION
Hàys, William Harrison, 5 November 1879-7 March 1954
Will Hays was one of the most famous public figures of his day. In 1920 he was widely
heralded as a member of the "Ohio Gang," which elected Warren G. Harding president of
the United States in the greatest landslide to that point in American political history. As
his reward, Hays served for the first year of the hugely popular Harding administration as
one of the more visible and respected postmaster generals.
But far more people on the street knew Will Hays after he left the Harding administration and became the first "Czar of the Movies." Movie fans throughout the world knew
Hays held the last word on movie content in his position as president of the Motion
Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc.•henceforth MPPDA, and known to
all as the Hays Office. The MPPDA functioned as an association representing the major
Hollywood studios in matters of censorship, international trade, and relations with the U.S.
government. Hays himself made no films, but informally in the 1920s and formally from
1934 to the day of his resignation in 1945, Will Hays could prevent a Hollywood movie
from being released until it met with the approval of the MPPDA.
Few Americans of the era between the two world wars did not have an opinion about
the "Movie Czar." Intellectuals hated him for "censoring" creative talents in Hollywood
who tried to make movies into an art form. Moral reformers and religious leaders applauded
Hays for standing between moviegoers and the sex and violence that Hollywood tried to
unleash on an unsuspecting world. And most Americans cynically saw Hays as a small man
with very large ears who was a bit of a prude but basically harmless. Who could take
seriously somebody who thought hearing words such as fanny or louse in a movie would
damage anyone's sensibilities?
Will Hays clearly understood his tasks. He strove to be seen as an important public
servant, be he postmaster general or president of the MPPDA. Hays sought to be
remembered as a man who used his energies to promote the public welfare. And that
welfare was best defined as classic, midwestern, conservative republicanism.
Whenever he was asked why he took the movie job, Hays invariably told the following
story: as he was considering the offer, he saw his son and nephews pretending to be the
actor William S. Hart•not Buffalo Bill or some other traditional storybook figure. Hays
recognized through their game the power of this new medium. (At this point he also
might have told how his effective use of movie newsreels had helped elect Harding
president. ) Hays saw his work with the movies as a simple extension of a career that had
begun with the Indiana Republican party upon graduation from college.
William Harrison Hays was born 5 November 1879 in Sullivan, Indiana, the son of John
Tennyson and Mary (Cain) Hays. His family was among the many new settlers of Indiana
in that era. His father, John T. Hays, was born in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, on 11
November 1846, and moved to Ohio at age twelve. He graduated from Mount Union
College of Alliance, Ohio, in 1869, and then moved to Indiana to teach school. He eventually became head of the public schools in Sullivan. Next, he turned to the study of law,
and in the 1870s established the law firm which his son would later join.
Will Hays's mother Mary, the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Cain of
Sullivan, Indiana, was born on 10 June 1857. Her father had journeyed from the East to
Sullivan, to accept a teaching position. Mary Cain, after a limited formal education, also
took a job teaching in the local public schools. She married John T. Hays on 9 December
1876. It was her first marriage and his second (Will Hays had two stepsisters from his
father's first marriage). After her marriage, Mary stayed home in the traditional mother/
housekeeper role; like her husband and later her son, she was active in the social life of
this Indiana community of some two thousand persons, especially in the affairs of the
Presbyterian church.
Will Hays's childhood led him almost inevitably into a career in politics. He learned his
staunch Indiana republicanism at his father's knee. To understand Will Hays, one must
remember that although he spent his famous years in New York and Washington, he was
raised in Indiana, and he constantly boasted the virtues of this heritage. This was the
Indiana fresh from the era of pioneer adventure when the Wabash River served as the
gateway to the West and wagon trails had just turned into railroad links. To its sons and
daughters, Indiana represented the time and country of the nostalgic memory of James
Whitcomb Riley. It was best captured in the romantic novels of Booth Tarkington, and
especially in the refrains of Paul Dresser, oft cited by Hays: "The candlelight's agleaming
on the banks of the Wabash, far away."
Will Hays's father was an active participant in the Republican party politics of Benjamin
Harrison, the twenty-third president of the United States (1888-1892). William Harrison
Hays was named after Benjamin Harrison's father, William Henry Harrison. It has been
reported that Benjamin Harrison offered John T. Hays a post in his cabinet, but Hays
refused, explaining that "Sullivan is good enough for me."
Will Hays entered the Wabash College of Crawfordsville, Indiana, in September of 1896,
two months before his seventeenth birthday. At this college of less than 500 students,
Hays was by his own admission an average student, but he did win a number of oratorial
honors and graduated in June 1900. During his college years he also studied law under
the direction of his father, and five months after his graduation on his twenty-first birthday, he was admitted to the Indiana bar. He then entered into partnership with his father,
creating the firm Hays and Hays. The work of the firm concentrated on commercial
clients, most notably local railroads and mines.
In 1902 Will Hays married Helen Louise Thomas, daughter of a prominent Crawfordsville, Indiana, family. They had one son, Will H. Hays, Junior, in 1915. But the marriage did
not last•Mrs. Hays never saw the need to venture beyond the borders of Indiana. They
were divorced on 20 June 1929, after having lived apart for many years. Will H. Hays, in a
rare event for his day, kept custody of his son. The matter was handled with much discretion and remarkably little press coverage.
On 27 November 1930 Will Hays married Jessie Herron Stutesman, the widow of James
F. Stutesman, former United States representative to Bolivia and an important player in the
Republican party. In addition, Hays had known the then Jessie Herron in college, since she
was a native of Crawfordsville, Indiana. The second Mrs. Hays lived in New York City with
her husband and actively assisted him in many functions related to his work with the
movies. The Hayses also maintained a ranch in Hidden Valley, California, near Los Angeles.
Once' Will Hays reached his majority he commenced his career in politics. He swiftly
climbed the ranks of the Indiana Republican party, becoming a Republican precinct
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committeeman for Sullivan County the year he graduated from college. From that base he
went on to become head of the county committee, and then on to the chairmanships of
the Republican Congressional District Committee, the Republican Speakers Bureau, the
Indiana Republican State Committee, the Republican State Central Committee, and, during
the First World War, the Indiana Council of Defense.
Hays was a strong believer in supporting and joining as many organizations as possible
to help him acquire contacts for his work in the Republican party. He served on the
Wabash College Board of Trustees from 1919 to the date of his death (the college granted
him an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1940). He was active in the Presbyterian
church, and also held a 33d degree in the Scottish Rite Masons and regularly participated
as a Shriner, Elk, and Moose. The list of other clubs to which he belonged covers a
complete single-spaced typed page.
The decisive moment in Hays's career in the Republican party came with the 1916
elections. (Prior to that year Democrats, under Boss Taggart's rule, had held all the important elected offices in Indiana.) With the efforts of Hays and others, Republicans swept
the Indiana elections. In a year that saw a Democrat, Woodrow Wilson, win his second
consecutive term as president of the United States, a formerly split Republican party
captured both Indiana positions for United States senators, and nine of the thirteen congressmen. National party regulars took notice of the Indiana results and subsequently
made Hays the new Republican national chairman. He had united the forces of republicanism in Indiana, and party regulars hoped he could do the same on the national level.
Before the decisive 1920 campaign that took him forever from his native Indiana, both
Will Hays's parents died within seven weeks of each other, in April and May of 1919.
Perhaps this freed him to seek his fame and fortune elsewhere, for from then on he would
spend little time in Indiana, despite maintaining his official residency there for voting
purposes.
Hays has long been credited with organizing and financing Warren G. Harding's landslide election of 1920. Yet Hays also fancied himself a viable candidate for the 1920
Republican nomination. He was well known for the splendid job he had done as head of
the Republican National Committee and to many an insider, Hays was the true dark horse.
Hays was a brilliant election manager, surely the first to truly understand modern
campaigning. He prepared for more than a year and raised some eight million dollars, four
times more than the Democrats had. Hays kept Harding's travel to a minimum and let his
candidate's image reach the public through Republican-owned newspapers and the
omnipresent newsreels. It was Harding's image in the media which "unelected" Woodrow
Wilson.
Harding made Hays postmaster general, and although Hays secretly had hoped for the
post of secretary of commerce, for the duration of Harding's tenure as president, Hays
remained close to the presidency. Despite his strait-laced reputation, Hays was a regular at
the Hardings' poker games in the White House. Many have speculated that Hays sensed
the upcoming Teapot Dome scandals, and "cashed in his chips" to go with the safer movie
business.
Hays took up the office of postmaster general on 21 March 1921 and had by all
accounts an immediate effect on the U.S. Postal Service. He established a merit system,
extended civil service, and encouraged efficiency and technical improvement, especially
by building up the then-shaky airmail service. Using his media connections, he
campaigned for educational reforms which stressed using the correct address and legible
writing. As a result, the mountains of letters that were constantly piling up in the dead
letter office disappeared.
In 1921, while Hays was in the process of reforming the postal service, the American
film industry was entering a crucial phase of its growth. It had expanded from a limited
presence at the turn of the century into America's most popular mass-entertainment form.
The newly founded Hollywood was regularly producing more than 500 films a year, and
after the First World War, many of them appeared on screens throughout the world.
Movie houses appeared on every corner of every American city; by 1921 the number
topped 20,000. .
But with success and growth also came scandal. Consider just two examples which
made headlines for months: in 1920, Mary Pickford, America's sweetheart, had secretly
divorced one star, Owen Moore, and then immediately married another, Douglas Fairbanks. Movie fan magazines of the day claimed her Nevada divorce was a fraud. And in
1921, an unknown movie extra, Virginia Rappe, died during a wild party given by one of
the three highest-paid stars in Hollywood, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. Arbuckle was tried for
manslaughter in a series of three sensational trials which lasted more than a year.
Aroused by these scandals, the forces of moral conservatism, fresh from their triumph
of adding a prohibition against alcohol to the United States Constitution, prepared to
challenge the film world; voices began calling for censorship of the movies. The movie
industry needed some sort of leader to help them put their house in order, much as major
league baseball had enlisted Judge Landis a couple of years earlier, after the Black Sox
scandals.
Will Hays would be their man, and Charles Pettijohn would provide the necessary connection. In 1921, Pettijohn, as leader of the major movie companies and lawyer for movie
mogul Lewis Selznick, father of famed producer David O. Selznick, approached Hays with
an offer. (Hays had known Pettijohn from the world of Indiana politics.) On 14 January"
1922, Will Hays accepted a salary of SI 15,000 per annum (about 8600,000 in 1986
dollars), a prepaid life insurance policy, plus an almost unlimited expense account, and on
14 March 1922, he became the first president of the MPPDA, with an office on Fifth
Avenue in New York. Hays then hired Pettijohn to be his chief assistant.
Hays's first move was to strengthen the finances of the new trade association. He
approached New York bankers whom he knew from his days as head of the Republican
party and within a week had set up a line of credit which put the MPPDA on stable
economic footing. Such quick action impressed his new bosses.
Hays then used his political clout to help avert the first crisis facing the new
MPPDA•pending state legislation in Massachusetts which would have severely censored
the movies. In the end, a referendum was held and the voters of that conservative state
rejected the legislation by a more than two-to-one margin. Once the tide had been turned
in that key northeastern state, Hays was easily able to prevent pending censorship bills in
twenty-two other legislatures. He proved that the resources of MPPDA could be effectively used to benefit all member companies. He also demonstrated that with his political
connections he was the right man for the job.
Hays then moved to create a formal public relations arm of the MPPDA to deal with the
religious groups, educational organizations, and other parties so concerned with the
presumed negative influence of the movies. Hays himself was the point man in this PR
effort: he spoke before countless groups, trying to convince them that the movies could
be a positive force. Hays tangled with these reformers in many a public arena and
throughout the 1920s more than held his own.
Hays proved just as successful in improving relationships within the movie business
itself. Following the principles which had worked so well in the post office department, he
sought to institute more efficiency and uniformity. Specifically, he pushed for the introduction of standardized exhibition and distribution contracts and arbitration procedures
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to settle disputes among producers, distributors, and exhibitors. In 1927, he established
the Copyright Protection Bureau to register titles of films and thus head off disputes over
duplication. The next year saw the establishment .of a formal committee on labor
relations. On the West Coast, under Hays's direct supervision, this interest in labor resulted in the formation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Today the
academy is well known for its annual Oscar Awards, but the Hays Office had created the
academy to provide a forum for labor disputes, in effect establishing a union supervised
by the major companies.
In the 1920s, Hays had little direct connection with actual movie production. Of
course, he had many friends in the business, probably no one closer than William S. Hart,
the noted star of many early westerns and his son's hero. Hays's own screen fame probably came with the use of sound in the movies. In one of the first Vitaphone talkie shorts
ever made, and in the group of the first ever shown, Hays presented a short address
congratulating the brothers Warner, members of his MPPDA.
Hays's tenure as president of the MPPDA can easily be divided into two distinct parts. In
the first, from 1922 to 1928, he served his members as the ultimate insider, the Republican with a direct link into the White House. Operations of the MPPDA proceeded
smoothly. Hays took on the multitude of problems that had faced his member corporations in 1922 and solved all with relative ease. Historians have labeled the 1920s the era
of Republican normalcy•this term is also an accurate description for the movie industry
under Will Hays during that period.
But industry good will was all based on an economy of growth from the prosperity
fostered by the Republicans which vanished in 1929. The Republican power base went
down in flames in the election^ of 1932, although surely the power and influence of
Hays's connections to Herbert Hoover's White House were already worth little after the
Great Crash began in October 1929. Indeed, upon President Franklin D. Roosevelt's landslide election in 1932, there was industry talk that Hays should not be retained as
president of the MPPDA, as everyone knew he had lost his valuable though limited political connections. In the end, he was kept on, but the loyalty and support of his member
companies were never as strong as they had been in the 1920s.
Hays's vaunted organizational skills were sorely tested during the 1930s, indeed up
until the end of his MPPDA tenure in 1945. During the 1930s the Hays Office had to
organize formal self-regulation of movie content through its notorious Production Code
Administration (PCA). Although many thought of this as censorship of the movies, it
certainly was not. Censorship takes place when an outside force, usually a governmental
agency, dictates what may be published or shown. The Hays Office policed the productions of its own member companies: any fines were paid to the Hays Office, owned by and
operated for the members themselves. The PCA was created so that federal censorship,
most strongly advocated by the Catholic church, would not become the law of the land.
Will Hays must indeed be credited with preventing the passage of federal government
legislation on censorship.
The production code had its genesis in the 1920s with informal rules. To protect
member firms from charges of immorality, in 1926 the MPPDA had begun an examination
of scripts on an advisory basis. A list of "Don'ts" and "Be Carefuls" was formulated in
1927. The actual production code was drafted for the MPPDA in 1930 by Father Daniel E.
Lord, a Catholic priest, and was loosely enforced until 1934. Following a militant
campaign•including threats to boycott films•by the Catholic church's Legion of Decency, the enforcement mechanism was strengthened in 1934. There had just been a
spate of violent films•most notably the classic gangster movies such as Scarface (1932)
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and Little Caesar (1930)•and several films with strong sexual innuendoes•such as She
Done Him Wrong (1933) and I'm No Angel (1933), both starring Mae West.
In 1934, Hays selected a respected Catholic layman, Joseph I. Breen, a former reporter
for the movie trade paper Motion Picture Herald, to be the head of the West Coast-based
Production Code Administration. Hays himself, based in New York, had little to do with
the actual day-to-day operations of the production code; he only handled disputes which
Breen could not settle. Usually some compromise was worked out before the movie was
shot; few violations ever occurred. So, for example, in the 1935-1945 period, more than
5,800 features were approved and only forty turned down. And of those forty, nearly all
were reshot.
The moral values embodied in the production code were designed to please all groups
that protested the movies' purported immorality; that is, the code was written to meet the
lowest common denominator of protest. As such, it was a throwback to the Victorian era
when sin was punished and virtue rewarded: the studios got around code restrictions by
having six reels of sex and violence and a final reel of punishment tied up with a "happy"
ending.
The PCA was rarely openly challenged. The most famous case took place when David
O. Selznick, an independent producer not working for a major studio, wanted Rhett Butler
to say: "Frankly, Scarlett, I don't give a damn." Damn was expressly forbidden under the
code. After a heated public battle, Selznick won his point only because a public outcry
ensured that this most popular of novels would not be altered. Selznick was the
exception•less independent-minded folk working for the major studios simply rewrote
their scripts.
The Hays Office faced a much more dangerous problem when the U.S. government
challenged the monopoly power of the members of the Hays organization. Throughout
the 1930s, eight movie companies (Paramount, MGM, Twentieth Century-Fox, RKO,
Warner Brothers, Universal, Columbia, and United Artists), controlled the bulk (85 percent) of the revenues from movie showings in the United States. These were the same
eight that dominated the MPPDA and the "Big Eight" held their monopoly by owning and
operating the key theaters throughout the United States. Consequently, the eight majors
made many an enemy refusing to provide their feature films to independent theaters until
their own affiliated theaters had exhausted the film's drawing power.
Independent theater owners pressed their representatives in Congress to act on their
behalf. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration jumped on this antimonopoly bandwagon, and on 20 July 1938 the U.S. Department of Justice, under liberal Attorney
General Thurman Arnold, filed an antitrust suit against the eight major companies, charging them with violations of the Sherman and Clayton antitrust laws. Many private antitrust
suits followed, occasioning the film industry to spend millions of dollars hiring the best
lawyers money could buy, to defend themselves during the following decade.
Antitrust actions, in fact, had been filed as early as 1917, but because of Hays's influence
in the federal government, they had never presented any real threat•at least during the
1920s. Roosevelt changed all that. At the same time, members of the Democraticdominated U.S. Congress, incited by independent theater owners in their home states,
began to investigate monopoly practices in the movie business in what became known as
the "block booking" problem. (Block booking was the practice of forcing a theater owner
to rent a year's worth of films rather than the ones he or she might think would be most
attractive to the theater's potential customers.) Several hearings and investigations were
held; much unfavorable publicity was generated.
Women's groups and religious organizations pushed for legislation banning block booking, thinking that if some control of the structure of the movie business was effected, then
better movies would follow. The most famous of the ensuing legislative controversies,
complete with well-publicized hearings, centered around a Senate bill sponsored in 1938
and then again in 1939 by Senator Neely of West Virginia. Once again, Will Hays
marshalled his contacts and successfully led the fight against this and all other forms of
proposed legislation. His connections in Washington, while not as strong as they had been
in the 1920s, proved effective enough.
However, that success could not be transferred to the U.S. federal judiciary. As
President Roosevelt appointed more and more liberal judges, an increasing number of
decisions in the federal antitrust suits went against the major movie companies. Early in
1941, through a consent decree, the major companies and their affiliated theater chains
actually seemed to effect a stalemate. But eventually the case was reopened and made its
way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Finally, in May 1948, several years after Hays had stepped
down as head of the MPPDA, the Supreme Court ruled against the major companies. In a
historic decision, the "Big Eight" were ordered to sell their theaters. Although Hays was
no longer in office, he had spent day after day in the 1930s and 1940s trying to head off
this dreaded result.
He did, however, succeed in preserving the MPPDA•at no point was the organization
cited as a defendant, although few antitrust actions for other industries at that time saw
the major trade association omitted from the government's suit. Hays recognized from the
beginning that by having no legal connection to its branches (including the famed PCA),
the MPPDA could steer clear of antitrust law violations.
An equally vexing problem occurred more frequently in the 1930s: challenges by
foreign countries to the distributional hegemony of Hollywood. The conflict usually
played out as thus: a nation would grow tired of Hollywood films dominating its marketplace (after 1920, this was the case in industrialized countries throughout the world except the Soviet Union); the members of the small indigenous film industry would
complain loudly, and the government would institute some sort of legislative measure to
counter the power of Hollywood.
This legislation invariably took one of three forms: to begin with, the country would
restrict the presentation of American movies on local screens, and a specific proportion
or number of native-made films had to be shown. A second variation saw a tax instituted
on the showing (or importation) of Hollywood films, with the monies used to finance
native productions. In the third form, the country established a quota on the number of
films from Hollywood that could be imported in any year. These imports could be shown
as often as possible, but the quota was usually set far lower than the number of films
actually made by Hollywood each year.
It was Hays's job to convince foreign governments to do away with such laws, or at
least render them ineffective. Consider a precedent-setting case in France: in March 1928,
the French instituted a new law, a variation of alternative three above, whose provisions
were so restrictive that American movie companies would have had to withdraw from the
French market. Less than a month after the issuance of the French Film Decree, the Hays
Office appointed Harold L. Smith, who up to that time had been vice-consul at the
American Consulate in Paris, as its representative. Hays set sail for France immediately
after Smith's appointment and used Smith's contacts (plus his own) to have two-thirds of
the restrictions lifted at once. Over the longer haul, Hays was able to render the French
law almost totally ineffective.
This type of success in increasingly important foreign markets would repeat itself over
and over again during the decade before the Second World War. In effect, Will Hays
became an ambassador for the movie trade. The Hays Office also utilized contacts in the
State Department and the Bureau of Foreign Commerce in the Department of Commerce
to maintain Hollywood's control over foreign movie screens.
But eventually all these problems exceeded the frustration level of even such a
seasoned politician as Will Hays. The Second World War complicated foreign affairs, and
in 1943 United States v. Paramount et al. (the major antitrust case instituted by the U.S.
Department of Justice) took a turn for the worse. Thus in November 1944, on his sixtyfifth birthday, Will Hays began to seriously consider retiring. He had successfully held his
job as "Movie Czar" for more than two decades. One personal matter also intervened: in
1942 the invaluable Charles Pettijohn had resigned for reasons of poor health. It was then
not surprising that Hays followed suit three years later.
Will Hays formally resigned as president of the MPPDA on 14 September 1945. In what
would be labeled today a "Golden Parachute," the member companies of the MPPDA
voted to hire him a consultant for the next five years. Eric Johnston, former president of
the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, took Hays's place. Hays worked off and on for the MPPDA
during the next five years, principally providing advice on matters of foreign distribution.
He formally severed all relationships with the MPPDA on 14 September 1950, some
twenty-eight-and-one-half years after he helped create the organization.
Will Hays then gracefully retired. After 1950, with no official relationship to the movies,
he worked as a spokesman for the Republican party and monitored his substantial holdings in several corporations. His principal office and residence remained in New York
City•he did most of his work from the expansive suite which he and his second wife,
Jessie, had maintained for more than two decades in the Waldorf Towers at 50th and Park
Avenue. Only occasional visits took him "home" to Sullivan, Indiana.
Will Hays died of a heart ailment on Sunday 7 March 1954 in the family home in
Sullivan, Indiana. He had contracted pneumonia the previous winter and had never fully
recovered. He was 74 years old. A memorial service was held on the following Wednesday, immediately followed by the funeral and burial at the family plot at the Sullivan
Cemetery. Commentators throughout the world noted the passing of the man who had
played such an important role in the politics of his nation and the affairs of the movie
business.
Further Reading
The Will H. Hays Papers at the Indiana State Library, Indianapolis, Indiana, represent the most
comprehensive collection of materials available on the life and career of Will H. Hays. In addition,
relevant materials touching on Hays's activities in Republican party politics can be found in the
Warren G. Harding Papers held at the Ohio Historical Society in Columbus.
There are many collections of documents that reflect on Hays's role as president of the MPPDA.
The files of the Production Code Administration are found in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences Library in Beverly Hills, California. (As of this writing the papers of the MPPDA, now
the Motion Picture Association of America, headed by Jack Valenti and located in Washington, D.C.,
are not open to scholars.) The papers from the major motion picture companies which sponsored
and underwrote the MPPDA include the papers of United Artists Corporation held at the State
Historical Society of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin; the Warner Bros, production records held at
the Library of the University of Southern California; and the Warner Bros, administration records
held at the Firestone Library at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.
Of Will Hays's own writings, the most valuable include The Memoirs of Will H. Hays (Garden
City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1955); "Supervision from Within," in Joseph P. Kennedy
(ed.), The Story of the Films (Chicago: A.W. Shaw Company, 1927), pages 29-54; "The Motion
Picture Industry," in Review of Reviews (January 1923), pages 65-80; "Motion Pictures and Their
Censors," in American Review of Reviews (April 1927), pages 393-398; "It's Up to Every
American," in Liberty Magazine fNovember 9, 1940), pages 8-9; and "The Human Side of the
Postal Service," in Review of Reviews (December 1921), pages 625-640.
The best place to read about Hays's career as an executive of the MPPDA remains Raymond
Moley, The Hays Office (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1945, reprinted by Jerome S. Ozer, New York
City, 1971). This book was written with the help and cooperation of the MPPDA during the last
years of Hays's administration. Supplement this with a detailed portrait in the leading business
publication of its day: "The Hays Office," in Fortune (December 1938), pages 68-72.
For background on Hays's political career in Warren G. Harding's campaign for president, see
Francis Russell, The Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G. Harding and His Times (New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1968). A contemporary study of the political power of the Hays Office can be found
in Kenneth G. Crawford, The Pressure Boys (New York: Julian Messner, 1939), pages 90-106;
where Crawford details how Hays engineered the defeat of the Neely bill. Most people associate the
Hays Office with the Production Code Administration; the role of this MPPDA agency can best be
understood by reading Richard S. Randall's Censorship of the Movies (Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press, 1968). For a survey of the economic importance of the Hays Office, see Douglas
Gomery, The Hollywood Studio System (New York: St. Martin's, 1986). The most useful study
which situates the role of the MPPDA in the social history of the movies remains Garth Jowett,
Film: The Democratic Art (Boston: Little, Brown, 1976). These final three books all tender extensive documentation and thus offer the best places to begin searching for sources of information on
the role of Will H. Hays and the MPPDA in the history of American film.
Douglas Gomery
Associate Professor of Communication Arts
University of Maryland
December 1986
xin
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
The microfilm edition is divided into two parts. Part I: December 1921-March 1929 is
especially rich in political materials from the twenties, when Republicans held the White
House. Hays was directly connected to the administrations of Warren G. Harding and
Calvin Coolidge: he had been Harding's campaign manager and was close to him personally. He was also a supporter of Coolidge, and thus was an insider to that White House as
well.
His position changed with the election of Herbert Hoover in 1928 and the Great Crash
of 1929, which signalled the end of the Republican era. Hays knew Hoover, but did not
belong to the inner circle of this new president. Part II: April 1929-September 1945
begins with the arrival of the Hoover administration in April 1929 and focuses on the
economic turmoil caused by the Great Depression and the increasing complexity of international distribution of film. Once Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president, Hays
became a true outsider, and the focus of the political correspondence and documents
shifts to Republican considerations of how to recapture the White House and the Congress. Indiana, Hays's home state, remained one of the few success stories for the Republicans of that era. Hays was active as an Indiana delegate in the nomination of Hoover in
1932, and the nomination of Willkie in 1940.
The documents chosen for inclusion in The Will Hays Papers provide a near-exhaustive
edition of correspondence and files on the movie business of the 1920s and 1930s into
the 1940s, as well as the inner workings of the Republican party of the United States.
Duplicates were not filmed. Correspondence for which it was impossible to specify the
correspondent was excluded.
This edition is drawn from forty-nine of the eighty-five Hollinger boxes of the papers of
Will H. Hays held in the Indiana State Library in Indianapolis, Indiana. Boxes 1 • 14, not
published here, deal with Hays's formative years, his entry into the Republican party, the
election of Warren G. Harding, and Hays's nine-month service as postmaster general of the
United States, and end in late 1921, when film moguls approached Hays about the job as
head of what would become the MPPDA. Boxes 64-84, with materials dating from
October 1945 through Hays's death in 1954, contain very little material dealing with the
MPPDA, and thus were not included in this microfilm edition.
The Reel Index provides key terms for the papers. Several criteria are used to guide the
reader to the appropriate papers.
A. Key Organizations•Will Hays dealt with many important organizations such as the
RNC and the AMPP. When there is significant correspondence or documents concerning
one of these organizations, it is noted.
B. Speeches•as a politician, Will Hays made hundreds of speeches. The Will Hays
Papers is rich in copies of these speeches as well as selected handwritten drafts.
C. Famous Persons•Hays dealt with many of the most influential persons of his age.
including presidents of the United States and many movie stars. When this correspon-
dence is particularly rich (more than a formal letter of thanks, for example), the name is
noted.
D. Films•when Hays dealt with the matter of a film, or a book to be turned into a film,
it is noted by title.
E. Personal Travel•often it is possible to tell when Hays traveled to the West Coast
on movie business or to Wyoming on vacation. These trips are noted.
F. Relief and Charity Work•throughout his career Hays spent a great deal of time
working on European relief and charity work; partly, this was to fulfill a Christian duty,
and partly to meet people who might be politically useful to him.
G. Special Reports•often are included. Reports generated by the Republican party
and the MPPDA, if important, are noted by title.
H. Special Topics•sometimes there is correspondence on certain issues, such as film
censorship, foreign film matters, and antitrust matters•the three major problems with
which Hays dealt in the 1930s and 1940s. As such they are noted by these generic, rather
than specific, titles. The sole exception would be for foreign matters, in which the
country is specified. Thus, if a country is noted (e.g., Mexico), this means a problem of
the MPPDA with the government of Mexico.
The correspondence shows the wide connections Hays maintained throughout his life.
He never forgot the people who helped him, and he tried to cultivate many to help his
party, his church, and the movie companies he represented. By reading his letters one can
see how the censorship problem which Hays curtailed in 1922 reappeared later and
forced him to implement the notorious Hays Code in 1934. One can see how Republican
connections helped in the 1920s and hindered in the 1930s. Finally, one can see the
growing internationalization of the movie business. Gradually, during the Second World
War, Hays became almost an unaffiliated diplomat in trying to deal with such cases as a
Mussolini who tried to keep Hollywood films out of Italy, or a Number Ten Downing
Street which would not give up Hollywood's earnings in the United Kingdom during a
period when that nation desperately needed hard currency to fight Germany.
In sum, The Will Hays Papers provides more than a collection of valuable documents of
a powerful man who operated at the highest levels of the motion picture industry and
Republican party politics. The microfilm edition offers a rare insider look into the highest
reaches of power in the United States of America during the first half of the twentieth
century. Too often, writers focus only on the president and his most visible advisers. But
we must remember that always working behind the scenes was the true "power elite."
Will Hays surely was an insider's insider during the crucial period of American history
between the two world wars.
Douglas Gomery
XVI
EDITORIAL NOTE
The microfilm edition of The Will Hays Papers draws from his correspondence files
during his years as head of the MPPDA, 1922 to 1945. For five years after that, Hays served
as a part-time consultant to the MPPDA, and for that period, only materials relating to his
work with the movie industry are included.
The collection as it stands contains his business correspondence and most, but not all,
of the documents generated by the MPPDA during his tenure. There is little material on
Hays's personal life: some letters from his brother on business matters and some from his
nephews, but little relating to his son or from his first and second wives.
The Will Hays Papers concentrates on two types of material:
1. Letters and documents he generated as first president of the MPPDA for some
twenty-three-and-one-half years. The MPPDA functioned as a trade association, representing the major companies of the U.S. film industry in matters of censorship, legislation,
foreign trade, antitrust, and other problems the companies had in common. Hays, operating from New York City, dealt more with the distribution of the movies (especially as
constrained by foreign governments) and the exhibition of films (especially the increasing
number of antitrust suits brought by exhibitors not affiliated with the MPPDA).
2. Letters and documents relating to Republican party politics from 1922 to 1945. Will
Hays was much more than an administrator of a highly visible trade association. He was a
long-time insider in the Republican party.
Selections were made by the editor with the goal of completely covering Hays's work in
the Republican party and the MPPDA. These were, more often than not, interconnected,
since the chiefs of the various major movie companies hired Hays for his strong political
connections. Hays judiciously "worked the telephone" and followed up all correspondence. Thus, often he was contacted by someone, or initiated correspondence, or did the
person a favor (getting them in for a studio tour or having a son or daughter "auditioned"
were favorites), and then used that person's services later on. In every area of his life, Will
Hays was a political animal.
SOURCE NOTE
The Will H. Hays collection was acquired by the Indiana Division of the Indiana State
Library through the efforts of Harold F. Brigham, former director of the library, and Mrs.
Hazel Hopper, former head of the Indiana division. Upon the death of Will II. Hays in
1954, arrangements were made with Will H. Hays, Jr., to donate the collection of his
father's papers to the Indiana State Library. The collection was received in 1956. Will H.
Hays, Jr., assigned copyright of the papers to the Indiana State Library in 1984, to enable
microfilming to proceed.
The collection consists of eight-five cubic foot boxes (covering the years 1918 to
1953), 152 scrapbooks and forty-one notebooks. While the papers contain very little information on Hays's personal life, they do cover all his business, political, administrative,
and movie-related activities. It should be noted that the different categories of scrapbooks
and notebooks listed in the collection were set up by Hays himself. Over the course of the
years he changed his approach several times; changes in his staff also resulted in different
interpretations of his instructions. His overriding goal was always to collect everything
said in the press about him and his work.
All material for this microfilmed edition was drawn from the papers contained in boxes
dated December 1921 (box 15) to September 1945 (box 63).
The remaining unfilmed material can be viewed at the Indiana State Library, by prior
arrangement. Reproduction of the filmed material is limited to fifty pages. The condition
of the printed material and the "availability of staff determine the limits of photocopying of
unfilmed materials. Requests for photocopies should be made to the Manuscript Librarian,
Indiana Division, Indiana State Library, 140 North Senate Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46204.
Marybelle Burch
Manuscript Librarian, Indiana Division
Indiana State Library
December 1986
Inventory
According to the current inventory of the Indiana State Library, the materials are divided
into the following categories:
Boxes•chronologically ordered*
Green scrapbooks•early clippings files, 1915•1921
Clothbound scrapbooks•general clippings files, 1920-1944
Black binders•arbitration case**
Miscellaneous notebooks
"This inventory should not be considered infallible after Box 70, as, from this point on, the boxes contain some materials
which Hays did not incorporate into his regular files, or which became separated from the main collection and were
subsequently misfiled.
••The materials relating to the arbitration case are in the process of being refiled; other materials are being refiled and
cross-referenced on an ongoing basis.
XVI11
INITIALISMS
The following initialisms are used in this guide and are listed here for the convenience
of the researcher.
AMPAS
AMPP
FBI
FTC
GFWC
IATSE
JD
MGM
MPPDA
MPTOA
NRA
PCA
P.M.G.
PR
PTA
RNC
TOA
YWCA
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Association of Motion Picture Producers
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Trade Commission
General Federation of Women's Clubs
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees
Justice Department
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America
Motion Picture Theatre Owners of America
National Recovery Administration
Production Code Administration
Postmaster general
Public relations
Parent-Teachers Association
Republican National Committee
Theatre Owners of America
Young Women's Christian Association
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THE
WILL HAYS
PAPERS
Parti:
December 1921-March 1929
Parti
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Reel Index
Reel 1
1921
1922
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Reels 2-7
1922 cont
5
Reel 8
1922 cont
1923
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9
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Reels 9-13
1923 cont
9
Reel 14
1923 cont
1924
12
12
Reels 15-18
1924 cont
12
Reel 19
1924 cont
1925
Reels 20-23
1925 cont
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15
15
Reel 24
1925 cont
1926
18
18
Reels 25-29
1926 cont
18
Reel 30
1926 cont
. 1927
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21
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Reels 31-36
1927 cont
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Reels 37-42
1928
24
Reel 43
1928 cont
27
1929
Subject Index
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Frame #
Folder
REEL INDEX
The extensive Will H. Hays collection at the Indiana Division of the Indiana State Library is
arranged in chronological order, contained in file folders, and stored in numbered boxes. To facilitate access to the material, this index lists the major subjects of each folder. See also the explanation on page xv of the Scope and Content Note.
Reel 1
1921
Box 15
0001
30-31 December 1921. 164 frames.
P.M.G.; invitations to speak; legal appeals; New Year's greetings; appointments
as P.M.G.; RNC; Postal Bulletin; European relief; draft of speech.
1922
Box 15 cont.
0165
1-5 January 1922. 246 frames.
P.M.G.; invitations from White House; advice on motion picture industry job
öfter.
0411
12-5 January 1922. 241 frames.
P.M.G.; White House and other invitations; Postal Bulletin; advice on motion
picture position; RNC.
0652
16-17 January. 318 frames.
Advice on motion picture industry job; PMG; speeches; RNC.
0970
18-19 January. 168 frames.
P.M.G.; advice on motion picture industry job; RNC; speeches; Department of
State information.
Reel 2
1922 cont.
Box 15 cont.
0001
20-21 January. 269 frames.
Advice on motion picture industry job; P.M.G.; RNC; life insurance; letter to
President Warrén G. Harding; speeches.
0270
22-25 January. 279 frames.
Advice on motion picture industry job; P.M.G.; letter from White House;
RNC.
5'
Frame #
Folder
0549
26-31 January. 282 frames.
Retirement from cabinet; life insurance; post office department; White House
invitation; Committee on American Delegation for Limitation of Armaments
Conference; Postal Bulletin; RNC.
Box 16
0831
2-6 February 1922. 228 frames.
Advice on motion picture industry job; newspaper clippings; correspondence
with Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce; vacation; P.M.G.; Postal
Bulletin.
Reel 3
1922 cont.
Box 16 cont.
0001
7-11 February 1922. 224 frames.
P.M.G.; RNC; invitation to White House.
0225
12-19 February 1922. 267 frames.
Vacation; P.M.G.; RNC; prohibition; life insurance; advice on motion picture
industry job; letter to Mrs. Warren G. Harding.
0492
20-25 February 1922. 301 frames.
P.M.G.; RNC; Chinese-American Industrial Bank; White House invitation;
press releases; return from vacation.
0793
1-7 March 1922. 270 frames.
P.M.G.; invitation; appeals for money; life insurance; Postal Bulletin; press
releases, letters from White House and from Herbert Hoover.
Reel 4
1922 cont.
Box 16 cont.
0001
8-13 March 1922. 226 frames.
P.M.G.; invitations; certificate of incorporation and bylaws of MPPDA.
0227
14-21 March 1922. 171 frames.
Legal general release, Supreme Court, New York County; P.M.G.; MPPDA
dinner dance; speeches; newspaper clippings.
0398
22-31 March 1922. 276 frames.
P.M.G.; MPPDA original membership list; newspaper clippings; bylaws of
MPPDA.
0674
7-10 April 1922. 136 frames.
Certification of incorporation of MPPDA; press releases; P.M.G.; minutes of 7
April 1922 MPPDA board meeting.
0810
11-18 April 1922. 168 frames.
Speeches; MPTOA; P.M.G.; detailed statements of MPPDA receipts and expenditures from 5 March 1922 to 15 April 1922; censorship of films.
0978
19-27 April 1922. 245 frames.
Report on Senator Beveridge's meeting at Deluxe Theatre, Hammond, Indiana; invitations; P.M.G.; Fatty Arbuckle scandal.
Frame #
Folder
Reel 5
1922 cont.
Box 17
0001
0179
0383
0582
0791
0977
1-9 May 1922. 178 frames.
Letter from Arthur Brisbane; post office matters; speeches; official Republican
primary returns, Lane County, Indiana; P.M.G.
10-21 May 1922. 204 frames.
The church and movies; newspaper clippings; P.M.G.
22-31 May 1922. 199 frames.
Movie technology; letter to Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty; letter from
Fatty Arbuckle's wife; post office department; speeches.
1-8 June 1922. 209 frames.
Post office matters; National Shrine on the Hudson; censorship matters; letter
to Fatty Arbuckle; letter to President Warren G. Harding; speeches.
9-19 June 1922. 186 frames.
Republican National Club; post office matters; Federal Council of Churches;
note from White House; uniform exhibition contract.
20-30 June 1922. 241 frames.
Letter from Mrs. Roscoe Arbuckle; letter to President Warren G. Harding;
RNC; post office matters; MPTOA.
Reel 6
1922 cont.
Box 17 cont.
0001
1-12 July 1922. 211 frames.
Post office matters; partial Hays family genealogy; note from White House;
memo: "Movies and Partisan Propaganda."
0212
27-31 August 1922. 120 frames.
Phi Delta Theta; famous players' contributions to campaign of Hiram Johnson
for U.S. senator from California; motion picture industry data.
0332
1-12 September 1922. 137 frames.
MPPDA memos; letter to William S. Hart; note from White House; RNC;
dealings of MPPDA with Internal Revenue Service.
Box 18
0469
0532
0648
28-30 September 1922. 63 frames.
Post office matters; exhibitor matters; letter to President Warren G. Harding;
letter to William S. Hart; note from the White House.
i-5 October 1922. 116 frames.
Letter from Mrs. Roscoe Arbuckle; letter from Warren G. Harding; P.M.G.;
European relief; speeches; "The Motion Picture Situation in Massachusetts";
film censorship.
6-12 October 1922. 129 frames.
"Universal Picture of Superior Quality," censorship; "Massachusetts and the
Movies."
Frame #
Folder
0777
13-16 October 1922. 128 frames.
Note from George B. Christian, Jr., secretary to President Warren G. Harding;
European relief.
17 October 1922. 26 frames.
Resumes of correspondence and transactions in connection with Smyrna
emergency appeal.
18-24 October 1922. 227 frames.
European relief; educational films; National Education Association and
movies, censorship.
0905
0931
Reel 7
1922 com.
Box 18 cont.
0001
25-31 October 1922. 250 frames.
Note from White House; Republican party affairs; telegram to William S. Hart;
Massachusetts film censorship problem.
0251
1-6 November 1922. 179 frames.
European relief; newspaper clippings; film distribution in Far East; film exhibition; Massachusetts censorship problem.
0430
7-13 November 1922. 163 frames.
Near East relief; telegrams on Massachusetts censorship vote; educational
films; European relief; Republican party.
0593
14-18 November 1922. 163 frames.
Near East Relief Committee, Executive Committee meeting; letter to William
Randolph Hearst; MPPDA memos; speeches.
0861
19-24 November 1922. 186 frames.
Speeches; Friars Club dinner, letter from Warren G. Harding on educational
films; newspaper clippings, European relief; Near East relief.
1047
25-30 November 1922. 160 frames.
MPTOA; Near East relief; P.M.G.
Reel 8
1922 cont.
Box 18 cont.
0001
1-9 December 1922. 264 frames.
Near East relief; newspaper clippings; speeches; report on MPPDA; note from
White House; P.M.G.; memos and telegrams from Courtland Smith, Hays's
associate at MPPDA.
0265
10-12 December 1922. 42 frames.
Note from White House; interview with Will H. Hays by Harvard Crimson.
Frame #
Folder
1923
Box 19
0307
0474
0631
0829
0952
1-6 January 1923- 167 frames.
Membership record as of 1 January 1923 of the MPPDA; memo on Arbuckle
matter; memo on salaries of MPPDA; censorship matters.
7-11 January 1923. 157 frames.
Film theft problem; Republican party; newspaper clippings; MPPDA board
meeting minutes.
21-27 January 1923. 198 frames.
Fatty Arbuckle's contract; RNC; report on Cecil B. Milk's plans to film The
Ten Commandments; address•"What Is Being Done for Motion Pictures."
28-31 January 1923. 123 frames.
Film censorship problems; communications with Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.; Near
East relief; article by Hays; internal memos by MPPDA.
1-10 February 1923. 236 frames.
Memos for MPPDA; censorship; Near East emergency relief; Arbuckle case.
Reel 9
1923 cont.
Box 19 cont.
0001
17-24 February 1923. 204 frames.
Republican party matters; newspaper clippings; Near East relief; letter to
Marcus Loew; suggestions for MPPDA reorganization; MPTOA.
0205
25-28 February 1923- 128 frames.
Jewel Carmen v. Fox Film Corporation; film censorship; MPPDA memo/
reports from Hollywood.
0333
7-13 March 1923. 195 frames.
Letter from William Jennings Bryan on Fatty Arbuckle case; Near East relief.
0528
14-19 March 1923. 167 frames.
Near East relief; telegram to Cecil B. De Mille; film censorship, Republican
party.
0695
20-28 March 1923. 253 frames.
Confidential memo on upcoming Harding campaign for presidency; censorship laws.
0948
29-31 March 1923. 110 frames.
Letter to President Warren G. Harding; film censorship; report on drugs in
Hollywood.
Box 20
1058
1-6 April 1923. 157 frames.
Fatty Arbuckle scandal; film extras campaign.
Frame #
Folder
Reel 10
1923 cont.
Box 20 cont.
0001
16-23 April 1923. 231 frames.
The Hollywood Bowl; letter to Hal Roach; P.M.G.
0232
1-4 May 1923. 130 frames.
Telegram to Cecil B. De Mille; note from White House; film censorship;
MPPDA budget.
0362
5-12 May 1923. 183 frames.
Pennsylvania Board of Censors; letter from Sam Goldwyn; notes from White
House; Fatty Arbuckle scandal; RNC.
0545
17-19 May 1923. 81 frames.
Studio Club of Hollywood; speeches; censorship problems; notes from White
House.
0626
20-25 May 1923. 157 frames.
Life insurance; letter to Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes.
0783
26-31 May 1923. 154 frames.
Note to White House; MPPDA finances; speeches.
0937
6-8 June 1923. 110 frames.
Note from White House; letter to Warren G. Harding; MPPDA budget; First
International Congress on the Motion Picture Arts.
1047
9-12 June 1923. 115 frames.
Fatty Arbuckle's tax problems; note to the White House; letter to Cecil B.
De Mille.
Reel 11
1923 cont.
Box 20 cont.
0001
13-18 June 1923. 180 frames.
P.M.G. ; letter from Sam Goldwyn; notes to and from White House; motion
picture budgets.
0181
1-7 July 1923. 207 frames.
Post office matters; Near East relief; Harding's plans to visit studios on
California visit; RNC.
0388
8-12 July 1923. 175 frames.
P.M.G.; letter from Sam Goldwyn; MPPDA internal memos.
Box 21
0563
0790
13-18 July 1923. 227 frames.
Insurance for motion picture companies; Hays with President Harding in
California; speeches.
25-31 July 1923. 163 frames.
Letter to Edward F. Albee; newspaper clippings; arrangements for President
Harding to visit Hollywood; Community Motion Picture Service, Inc.
10
Frame #
Folder
0953
1-7 August 1923. 175 frames.
Near East relief; news clippings; note from White House; letters to new
President Coolidge, and Mrs. Warren G. Harding on Harding's death.
8-15 August 1923. 145 frames.
Motion picture exhibition; reactions to Harding's death.
1128
Reel 12
1923 cont.
Box 21 cont.
21-31 August 1923. 224 frames.
0001
Note from White House; Republican party matters; Motion Picture Capital
Company.
1-14 September 1923. 300 frames.
0225
Passport and special travel letters; post office matters; traveling to Europe for
MPPDA; Republican party; MPPDA reports.
15-30 September. 213 frames.
0525
Business travel in Europe; reports from Hollywood; film exhibition and
censorship; newsreel distribution.
1-9 October 1923. 148 frames.
0738
Business travel in Europe; meetings with important persons concerning
movies; Hays's speeches.
10-18 October 1923- 192 frames.
0886
Internal MPPDA memos; censorship matters; MPPDA budget and asset
accounting; return from Europe.
19-26 October 1923- 231 frames.
1078
MPPDA matters upon return from Europe; RNC; speeches by and about Hays;
letters to President Calvin Coolidge.
Reel 13
1923 cont.
Box 22
0001
0201
0370
0553
0637
0772
9-15 November 1923. 200 frames.
MPPDA board meetings and actions; Warren G. Harding Memorial; report on
conditions in Hollywood.
16-20 November 1923. 169 frames.
National Board of Review; invitation to White House; letters to President
Coolidge; notes from White House.
21-27 November 1923. 183 frames.
RNC; Hollywood labor matters; U.S. attorney general; Near East relief.
28-30 November 1923. 84 frames.
RNC; P.M.G.; notes from White House.
1-4 December 1923. 135 frames.
Near East relief; P.M.G.; International Golden Rule Sunday.
5-11 December 1923. 151 frames.
U.S. Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty; My Four Years in Germany.
11
Frame #
Folder
0923
12-14 December 1923. 96 frames.
JD; First National Pictures; movies in Pennsylvania; Near East relief.
15-18 December 1923. 135 frames.
Pathé Newsreel Corporation; letter to E.F. Albee; The Purple Highway.
20-21 December 1923. 135 frames.
Letter to William Fox; Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association; MPPDA
memos.
1019
1154
Reel 14
1923 cont.
Box 22 cont.
0001
27-31 December 1923. 196 frames.
Note from D.W. Griffith; trip to Indiana.
0197
1923-[undated]. 48 frames.
British color movie processes.
0244
1923-[undated]. 224 frames.
Drafts of speeches; reports of Community Service Department of MPPDA; film
censorship reports; Lewis Selznick's plan for movie industry.
1924
Box 22 cónt.
0468
1-6 January 1924. 156 frames.
Drafts of speeches; MPPDA membership report; trip to California.
0624
7-9 January 1924. 132 frames.
RNC; American Peace Award; meetings in California; film censorship.
0756
11-16 January 1924. 198 frames.
RNC; film exhibitor disputes; post office matters; Near East relief.
Box 23
0954
1141
17-21 January 1924. 187 frames.
Invitations for speeches; Industrial Workers of the World; reports from Hollywood; Near East relief.
22-31 January 1924. 238 frames.
Reports of first meeting of AMPP; report from Thomas Ince.
Reel 15
1924 cont.
Box 23 cont.
0001
8-12 February 1924. 137 frames.
Republican party; reports of the movies in Germany; Near East relief.
0138
13-16 February 1924. 173 frames.
Letter to Mrs. Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle; American Red Cross; AMPP.
0311
17-19 February 1924. 68 frames.
Note from Marion Davies; letter from William S. Hart; reports on censorship;
AMPP.
12
Frame #
Folder
0379
20-29 February 1924. 224 frames.
Letter from Thomas Alva Edison; note from White House; TOA.
1-11 March 1924. 207 frames.
Near East relief; insurance for film industry; RNC.
12-19 March 1924. 178 frames.
RNC; film censorship; report from Thomas Ince; financial reports from
Famous Players•Lasky.
1-8 April 1924. 207 frames.
U.S. Congress and movies; film censorship; Universal's dispute with AMPP.
0603
0810
0988
Reel 16
1924 cont.
Box 23 cont.
0001
18-30 April 1924. 211 frames.
Letter from Sam Goldwyn; non-theatrical films; film censorship.
0212
1-12 May 1924. 265 frames.
Film theft; postal service; AMPP and cruelty to animals.
Box 24
0477
0705
0892
1086
23-31 May 1924. 228 frames.
AMPP; confidential memo on New York State censorship.
1-10 June 1924. 187 frames.
RNC; MPTOA; correspondence with White House.
11-16 June 1924. 194 frames.
Memo on Eastman Theatre in Rochester, New York; destruction of motion
pictures; report of annual MPPDA meeting.
17-30 June 1924. 132 frames.
Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association; RNC; letter from Hal Roach; report on MPPDA; letter to U.S. attorney general.
Reel 17
1924 cont.
Box 24 cont.
0001
1-8 July 1924. 128 frames.
AMPP; RNC; Near East relief.
0129
9-17 July 1924. 134 frames.
Movie financial data; RNC; Near East relief; lobbying expenses for admission
tax repeal.
0263
18-25 July 1924. 200 frames.
AMPP; Will Hays's trip to California; reports on West Coast theatres.
0463
26-31 July 1924. 105 frames.
Notes from White House; letter from William S. Hart; West Coast theatres
case.
0568
1-12 August 1924. 193 frames.
Problem of First National Pictures; Republican party.
13
Frame #
Folder
0761
13-19 August 1924. 174 frames.
Letters from Winfield Sheehan; Republican party; internal MPPDA memos.
20-26 August 1924. 202 frames.
Letter from William Fox; note from White House; motion pictures and U.S.
Chamber of Commerce.
27-30 August 1924. 131 frames.
P.M.G.; RNC; Hays's speeches.
0935
1137
Reel 18
1924 cont.
Box 24 cont.
0001
23-30 September 1924. 330 frames.
Letter from General John J. Pershing; letter to FTC; Republican party.
[Note•The material between frames 0161 and 0330 was inadvertently
filmed twice. It is a duplication of the material dated September 23-30, 1924
which appears on frames 0001 to 0160.]
Box 25
0331
0549
0681
0810
1075
1-10 October 1924. 218 frames.
Letter from White House; Near East relief; P.M.G.; letter to President
Coolidge; movies in Canada.
11-17 October 1924. 132 frames.
Letters from White House; letter to William S. Hart; Republican party matters.
18-22 October 1924. 129 frames.
Republican party matters, especially election of President Coolidge.
23-31 October 1924. 265 frames.
Bylaws for MPPDA of Canada; MPPDA, state legislatures, and movies.
1-7 November 1924. 222 frames.
Republican party; Harry M. Daugherty and Teapot Dome scandals; MPPDA
internal matters.
Reel 19
1924 cont.
Box 25 cont.
0001
8-13 November 1924. 168 frames.
Near East relief; Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association; MPPDA internal
matters.
0169
14-21 November 1924. 179 frames.
AMPP; death of Mrs. Warren G. Harding; letter to President Coolidge.
0348
1-5 December 1924. 207 frames.
RNC; actor's equity; MPPDA budget; D.W. Griffith's Isn't Life Wonderful?
14
Frame #
Folder
1925
Box 25 cont.
0555
1-6 January 1925. 151 frames.
Warner Bros, conflict with MPPDA; letter from White House; letter from
William S. Hart.
0706
7-12 January 1925. 158 frames.
Invitation to White House; legislation regarding motion picture industry.
0864
13-19 January 1925. 173 frames.
Motion picture exhibition; Hays's speeches.
Box 26
1037
1161
20-23 January 1925. 124 frames.
AMPP; movie distribution; Publicity Men's Committee; Federal Council of
Churches of Christ and movies; letter to William S. Hart; censorship of movies
in New York state.
24-31 January 1925. 207 frames.
Major Edward Bowes and motion picture distribution; licensing movie
theaters; note from White House.
Reel 20
1925 cont.
Box 26 cont.
0001
1-5 February 1925. 154 frames.
MPTOA on "clean" movies; motion picture censorship laws in New York.
0155
6-11 February 1925. 185 frames.
Visit to Los Angeles and movie studios; Hollywood Studio Club; GFWC and
movie censorship.
0340
12-20 February 1925. 240 frames.
YWCA and movies; special meeting of MPPDA in California; promotion of
industry-sponsored "The Greater Movie Season"; letter from Colleen Moore.
0580
21-28 February 1925. 201 frames.
Return from California; RNC; plans for presidential inaugural; advertising
movies; Vitagraph publicity.
0781
1-5 March 1925. 109 frames.
Theatre owners' campaign against Hays; interview with Hays; New York state
censorship legislation.
0890
6-11 March 1925. 220 frames.
Finances of motion picture industry; letter to U.S. Attorney General Charles B.
Warren on movie trade practices.
1110
12-15 March 1925. 78 frames.
Letter from William S. Hart; internal memos of MPPDA; dealings with Vitagraph Corporation.
15
Frame #
Folder
Reel 21
1925 cont.
Box 26 cont.
0001
16-19 March 1925. 151 frames.
Arbitration in motion picture industry; telegram to William Randolph Hearst;
movies and FTC.
0152
20-23 March 1925. 189 frames.
Annual report of MPPDA's Washington office; educational movies; PR for
movie industry.
0341
24-26 March 1925. 128 frames.
The movie industry and taxes; work to stop movie censorship laws.
Box 27
0469
11-15 April 1925. 128 frames.
To Indiana for Easter; finances of MPPDA; letter from Marcus Loew; publicity
betterment for movies.
0597
16-21 April 1925. 237 frames.
Peggy Hopkins Joyce and movie morals; movie distribution in West Virginia.
0834
22-27 April 1925. 154 frames.
Censorship and movies; JD investigation of film boards of trade; National
Vaudeville Artist's Club tribute to General John J. Pershing.
0988
28-30 April 1925. 103 frames.
Problem of National Federation of Women's Clubs and the movies; reports on
film publicity; note from George M. Cohan.
1091
1-5 May 1925. 138 frames.
End of Peggy Hopkins Joyce's film employment; Saturday Morning Movie
Campaign.
Reel 22
1925 cont.
Box 27 cont.
0001
12-15 May 1925. 138 frames.
Letter from Edward F. Albee; Greater Movie Season Campaign; AMPP.
0139
16-20 May 1925. 128 frames.
German film situation; movies and sesquicentennial in Philadelphia; Hollywood Studio Club.
0267
21-25 May 1925. 187 frames.
New publicity plan for MPPDA; copies of Hays's speeches.
0454
1-4 June 1925. 197 frames.
Doheny finances in Fairbanks-Pickford Movie Company; report by Universal
on MPPDA.
0651
12-18 June 1925. 149 frames.
Newsreel coverage for Governors Conference; legislation and movie industry;
Hays's speech.
16
Frame #
Folder
0800
25-30 June 1925. 125 frames.
Invitation to Herbert Hoover, Jr.'s wedding; report to Carl Laemmle on
MPPDA's activities.
1-7 July 1925. 164 frames.
Movie union agreements; European film situation; report on U.S. federal government's actions on film industry.
8-13 July 1925. 164 frames.
Travels to California; movies and publicity; air travel.
0925
1089
Reel 23
1925 cont.
Box 28
0001
0182
0390
0504
0637
0809
0918
1078
14-21 July 1925. 181 frames.
Citizenship for Ernst Lubitsch; taxes on motion pictures; film boards of trade.
22-30 July 1925. 208 frames.
Hays in California; censorship and movies; reform of movies.
11-14 August 1925. 114 frames.
Hays appointed to Committee of National Affairs of National Republican Club;
Greater Movie Seasons; anti-crime movement and movies; movie technology.
15-20 August 1925. 133 frames.
Note from White House; Chicago and censorship; David O. Selznick and
Florida movie studio.
21-26 August 1925. 172 frames.
Ernst Lubitsch and his citizenship; letter from Lewis Selznick; AMPP.
1-8 September 1925. 109 frames.
Letter to Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce; Connecticut film tax
problem.
9-16 September 1925. 160 frames.
Letter to President Calvin Coolidge; Greater Movie Season essay contests;
federal government films.
17-30 September 1925. 239 frames.
Problem of film exhibition and distribution; publicity for movie business.
Reel 24
1925 cont.
Box 28 cont.
0001
1-7 October 1925. 178 frames.
Warner Bros. Russian film problem; Motion Picture Theatre Owners of
Michigan.
17
Frame #
Folder
0179
8-15 October 1925. 151 frames.
Religious Motion Picture Foundation; letter from Marcus Loew; MPTOA.
11-16 November 1925. 186 frames.
Federal admission tax on movies; detailed report on independent movie
producers; death of Judge A.D. Thomas, Hays's father-in-law.
17-30 November 1925. 310 frames.
Premiere of The Long, Long Trail, legislation affecting movie business.
0330
0516
1926
Box 29
0826
0986
1-6 January 1926. 160 frames.
German film situations; return from Christmas in Sullivan, Indiana; National
PTA and movies.
7-15 January 1926. 229 frames.
Changing the admission tax on movies; Lew Wallace, Jr., and MPPDA.
Reel 25
1926 cont.
Box 29 cont.
0001
26-31 January 1926. 98 frames.
Campaign against newsreel censorship in New York state; movie boards of
arbitration.
0099
1-9 February 1926. 218 frames.
AMPP; Uniform Motion Picture Contract Conference; letter from William S.
Hart.
0317
10-17 February 1926. 137 frames.
Correspondence, generally by people looking for jobs and money.
0454
18-28 February 1926. 195 frames.
National Board of Review; legislation against movie business.
0649
1-5 March 1926. 220 frames.
Annual report of Washington office of the MPPDA; graduation of Paramount
Pictures School for Actors; MPPDA editorial department annual report.
0869
12-15 March 1926. 132 frames.
Saturday morning movies; legislative report on movies and potentially
harmful legislation; safety in movie theaters.
Box 30
1001
16-24 March 1926. 174 frames.
Federal movie censorship; movie copyright; film boards of trade.
Reel 26
1926 cont.
Box 30 cónt.
0001
25-31 March 1926. 146 frames.
The MPPDA in Canada; movies and the church; president's annual report.
18
Frame #
Folder
0147
25-31 March 1926. 140 frames.
Annual report of MPPDA; advertising and motion pictures.
8-17 April 1926. 197 frames.
Confidential report on the film business in Canada; basic rates of pay within
film industry.
18-30 April 1926. 256 frames.
Movies and universities; movies and President Coolidge.
1-9 May 1926. 210 frames.
Fox theatres; labor situation in Hollywood; movie industry and film exhibition.
10-17 May 1926. 180 frames.
Catholic luncheon and movies; GFWC.
0287
0484
0740
0950
Reel 27
1926 cont.
Box 30 cont.
0001
18-31 May 1926. 326 frames.
Note to Wallace Beery; standard exhibition contract; dedication of Paramount
Building; movies and state legislatures; Motion Picture Theatre Owners of the
Northwest; fire protection of movie theaters.
0327
1-8 June 1926. 247 frames.
Film boards of trade; Hays's speeches; film censorship and legislation;
correspondence with Sidney R. Kent of Famous Players-Lasky; films in Great
Britain.
0574
6-17 June 1926. 203 frames.
British film quota problem; MPPDA internal meetings; the Catholic church
and the movies; note from White House; Greater Movie Season.
0777
18-24 June 1926. 188 frames.
The movies and U.S. Army morale; honorary degree from Mt. Union College;
trip to West Coast.
0965
25-30 June 1926. 159 frames.
Meetings on West Coast, finances of MPPDA; motion pictures in South
America; movies and French government; Hollywood Studio Club.
Reel 28
1926 cont.
Box 30 cont.
0001
1-9 July 1926. 196 frames.
Film Congress in Paris; French movie question; meetings in Los Angeles;
Hays's speeches; film boards of trade.
19
Frame #
Box 31
0197
0364
0618
0791
0967
Folder
10-17 July 1926. 167 frames.
Control of AMPP; Harry Warner's son Lewis; reports from Hollywood.
18-31 July 1926. 254 frames.
Film boards of trade; President Coolidge as movie fan; newsreels as a social
force; The Scarlet Letter.
1-10 August 1926. 173 frames.
Fox Theatres Corporation; report on British film problems; Donjuán; report
on motion picture advertising.
11-19 August 1926. 176 frames.
Budget of MPPDA; competition in movies with sound; publicity for MPPDA.
20-31 August 1926. 210 frames.
Reports from Hollywood; The Winning of Barbara Worth; Vitaphone talkies.
Reel 29
1926 com.
Box 31 cont.
0001
1-12 September 1926. 182 frames.
Hays's visits with President Coolidge; film boards of trade; movies deposited
into National Archives.
0183
13-20 September 1926. 131 frames.
Crime portrayal in movies; Warner Bros, publication "Spotlight"; the movies
and U.S. Navy.
0314
1.-12 October 1926. 252 frames.
Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.; AMPP; Society of Motion Picture Engineers;
Religious Motion Picture Foundation.
0566
13-19 October 1926. 137 frames.
. .... _
Report on U.S. government and movies; Terry Ramsaye on Hays Office; Hollywood; labor situation.
0703
20-27 October 1926. 187 frames.
Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America and movies; actor Emil
Jannings; labor trouble in Hollywood.
0890
28-31 October 1926. 104 frames.
Movie investigations in Congress; Hays's speeches; movies and Catholic
church.
0994
1-10 November 1926. 217 frames.
Douglas Fairbanks pictures; religion and the motion picture.
20
Frame #
Folder
Reel 30
1926 cont.
Box 31 cont.
0001
11-17 November 1926. 175 frames.
Education and movies; Australia; exhibition; letter from William S. Hart; motion pictures used in medicine.
0176
23-26 November 1926. 146 frames.
Letter to Herbert Hoover; Presbyterian church; What Price Glory; Union
League of New York.
Box 32
0322
0493
0597
0805
27-30 November 1926. 171 frames.
Florenz Ziegfeld; movie censorship and the church; labor negotiations in
Hollywood.
1-3 December 1926. 104 frames.
Report from Hollywood; labor negotiations; American Federation of Labor
and movies.
4-10 December 1926. 208 frames.
Unions (IATSE) in Hollywood; motion picture advertising; Hays's speeches.
11-17 December 1926. 154 frames.
Reports from Hollywood.
1927
Box 32 cont.
0959
7-12 January 1927. 167 frames.
Hays's speech; preliminary report of psychological research of movies; founding meeting of AMPAS.
Reel 31
1927 cont.
Box 32 cont.
0001
13-20 January 1927. 198 frames.
Travels to West Coast for meetings.
0199
21-25 January 1927. 198 frames.
British film problems; lectures at Harvard University.
0323
26-31 January 1927. 151 frames.
Photoplay magazine; AMPAS; West Coast meeting.
0474
1-9 February 1927. 211 frames.
AMPP; Carl Laemmle; censorship legislation.
0685
10-16 February 1927. 228 frames.
Legislation regarding motion picture industry; film boards of arbitration.
0913
17-22 February 1927. 160 frames.
AMPAS; returns from West Coast.
Box 33
1073
27-28 February 1927. 85 frames.
Proposed bylaws of AMPAS; labor issues in California.
21
Frame #
Folder
Reel 32
1927 cont.
Box 33 cont.
0001
3-7 March 1927. 187 frames.
Irving Thalberg; Jesse Lasky; Winnie Sheehan; William Randolph Hearst.
0188
8-11 March 1927. 162 frames.
AMPP; AMPAS; legislation concerning motion picture industry.
0350
18-23 March 1927. 155 frames.
Labor relations in motion picture industry; minutes of AMPAS.
0505
24-27 March 1927. 98 frames.
Letter to Roy W. Howard, Scripps-Howard Newspapers; Charlie Chaplin's
finances; film censorship.
0603
28 March 1927. 71 frames.
President of MPPDA's annual report.
0674
29-31 March 1927. 118 frames.
Letter to President Coolidge; Producers Distributing Corporation.
0792
1-5 April 1927. 131 frames.
French film situation; AMPP; Vitaphone Corporation.
0943
8-13 April 1927. 110 frames.
The movies and FTC; AMPP.
1061
14-20 April 1927. 126 frames.
Universal Pictures; notes from White House; film censorship.
Reel 33
1927 cont.
Box 33 cont.
0001
28-30 April 1927. 121 frames.
Mary Pickford Motion Picture Company; report on films in Europe.
0122
1-10 May 1927. 178 frames.
Canadian film matters; Hays's speech; AMPAS.
0300
11-16 May 1927. 195 frames.
Note from White House; introduction of AMPAS to public; labor situation in
Hollywood.
0495
17-23 May 1927. 158 frames.
Fox Movietone newsreel; original members of AMPAS; letters to D.W. Griffith
and Herbert Hoover.
Box 34
0653
0870
1046
24-31 May 1927. 117 frames.
Note from White House; AMPP; Fox Movietone newsreels.
1-8 June 1927. 176 frames.
Cecil B. De Mille; travels to Hollywood for meetings; First National studios.
9-14 June 1927. 93 frames.
Universal Pictures; Hollywood casting office; labor situation in Hollywood.
22
'^••s»....stn j .i
Frame #
Folder
Reel 34
1927 cont.
Box 34 cont.
0001
15-23 June 1927. 195 frames.
Charles Lindbergh; labor, IATSE, and Hollywood; Hays's plans to purchase a
home in Los Angeles.
0196
24-28 June 1927. 103 frames.
Cecil B. De Mille; Charlie Chaplin; United Artists.
0299
29-30 June 1927. 66 frames.
RNC; survey of functions of MPPDA.
0365
1-10 July 1927. 188 frames.
Labor conditions in motion picture industry; college presidents and movies;
Cecil B. De Mille; FTC rules against the motion picture industry.
0553
11-15 July 1927. 180 frames.
Motion picture distribution in Europe; membership list of MPPDA; Movie
Trade Practices Conferences.
0733
16-21 July 1927. 214 frames.
Labor relations in movie industry; local censorship of movies; Film Trade
Practices Conferences.
0947
22-31 July 1927. 185 frames.
Note from White House; AMPP; film advertising.
1132
8-12 August 1927. 128 frames.
Film Trade Practices Conference; film censorship.
Reel 35
1927 cont.
Box 34 cont.
0001
21-25 August 1927. 115 frames.
Film Trade Practices Conference; Universal Pictures; The Callahans and The
Murphys; Hollywood labor problems.
0116
1-7 September 1927. 139 frames.
[Note: This folder was filmed out of order.]
Film Trade Practices Conference; AMPP.
0255
26-31 August 1927. 140 frames.
Union troubles in Hollywood; Film Trade Practices Conference; TOA.
0395
15-22 September 1927. 147 frames.
Hollywood cameramen; FTC and movie industry.
Box 35
0542
0665
23-28 September 1927. 123 frames.
Our Gang, comedy; Mary Pickford; labor and film industry.
29-31 September 1927. 95 frames.
Arbitration and movie industry; Paramount Pictures Corporation; Educational
Film Foundation.
23
Frame #
Folder
0760
1-10 October 1927. 216 frames.
The Garden of Allah; labor in Hollywood; Ku Klux Klan; resolutions of Trade
Practices Conference.
11-15 October 1927. 198 frames.
Trade Practices Conference; Universal.
0976
Reel 36
1927 cont.
Box 35 cont.
0001
16-24 October 1927. 143 frames.
End of Trade Practices Conference; nomination of Herbert Hoover.
0144
25-31 October 1927. 146 frames.
Universal Pictures; AMPP; note from White House.
0290
8-15 November 1927. 184 frames.
Princess Mascha; FTC and movies; Photoplay magazine; Al Jolson.
0474
16-22 November 1927. 174 frames.
Otto Kahn and Max Reinhardt; United Artists; nomination of Herbert Hoover.
0648
1-6 December 1927. 184 frames.
Labor situation in Hollywood; telegram to Tom Mix; letter from Winfield
Sheehan.
0832
7-9 December 1927. 160 frames.
Hoover for President campaign work; Motion Picture Club; FTC and film
industry.
Box 36
0992
[Undated.] 38 frames.
AMPAS; Motion Picture School of Technology; film censorship; Seventh
Heaven; film boards of trade.
1030
[Undated.] 129 frames.
Public relations of MPPDA; movies suitable for children's nontheatrical
movies.
Reel 37
1928
Box 36 cont.
0001
1-6 January 1928. 159 frames.
Hal Roach letter; Central Casting; report on censorship and unions in Los
Angeles.
0160
7-17 January 1928. 202 frames.
Cecil B. De Mille; trip to California; Republican party politics.
0362
18-25 January 1928. 230 frames.
Federal legislation on movies; Republican politics; meetings in Hollywood.
0592
26-31 January 1928. 210 frames.
Teapot Dome scandal; Vitaphone; letter to Calvin Coolidge; federal legislation
against movies; boxing films.
24
Frame #
Folder
0802
1-6 February 1928. 208 frames.
Federal movie legislation; TOA; Hollywood labor situation.
7-10 February 1928. 154 frames.
National endorsers of Photoplays; trip to Mexico; federal movie legislation;
Herbert Hoover campaign.
10-13 February 1928. 118 frames.
Testifies on oil scandal and 1920 campaign.
1010
1164
Reel 38
1928 cont.
Box 36 cont.
0001
14-24 February 1928. 237 frames.
Teapot Dome investigation; safety of motion picture film.
0238
25-29 February 1928. 104 frames.
MPPDA's Copyright Protection Bureau; clippings on Leon Trotsky.
0342
1-6 March 1928. 225 frames.
Annual report of MPPDA; Teapot Dome scandal.
0567
7-12 March 1928. 250 frames.
Letter to William Randolph Hearst; Teapot Dome scandal; Hoover campaign.
0817
13-14 March 1928. 200 frames.
Hays appears before U.S. Senate; European film situation; Teapot Dome
investigations.
Reel 39
1928 cont.
Box 37
0001
0268
0501
0660
0927
15-19 March 1928. 267 frames.
Annual report of Washington office of MPPDA; Teapot Dome investigation;
detailed report of AMPP covering all aspects of film production.
20-22 March 1928. 233 frames.
Teapot Dome scandal investigation.
23-26 March 1928. 159 frames.
Senate Teapot Dome investigation; newsreels and potential Herbert Hoover
campaign.
27-31 March 1928. 267 frames.
European film situation; Senate Teapot Dome investigations; Foreign Department annual report.
1-6 April 1928. 171 frames.
Senate Teapot Dome investigations; films on France.
25
Frame #
Folder
Reel 40
1928 cont.
Box 37 cont.
0001
7-10 April 1928. 98 frames.
Teapot Dome scandal hearings; films in France.
0099
11-14 April 1928. 189 frames.
Teapot Dome scandal trials.
0288
15-18 April 1928. 132 frames.
Annapolis; Cecil B. De Mille; surgeon's use of motion pictures; report from
Hollywood; German film situation.
0420
19-25 April 1928. 194 frames.
Teapot Dome investigation trials; French film situation.
0614
26-30 April 1928. 126 frames.
Central Casting; Teapot Dome scandal investigations; film boards of trade.
0740
1-4 May 1928. 155 frames.
French film situation; Teapot Dome scandal investigations.
0895
5-8 May 1928. 60 frames.
Cameramen in Hollywood; French film situation.
0955
9-18 May 1928. 185 frames.
French film problem; TOA; daylight savings time and exhibitions.
1140
19-31 May 1928. 238 frames.
Labor problems in Hollywood.
Reel 41
1928 cont.
Box 38
0001
0171
0349
0557
0724
0936
1130
1-12 June 1928. 170 frames.
Trip through the Midwest; report from Hollywood; MPPDA budget; Cecil B.
De Mille pictures.
13-18 June 1928. 178 frames.
Annual report of relations with film exhibitors; report of PR department of
MPPDA.
19-30 June 1928. 208 frames.
King of Kings; president's final copy of MPPDA's annual report.
1-16 July 1928. 167 frames.
MPTOA; Albert Fall and Will Hays.
17-31 July 1928. 212 frames.
Albert Fall and Will Hays; Motion Picture Club; movie exhibition workers'
strike in Minneapolis.
1-13 August 1928. 194 frames.
Howard Hughes; Albert Fall and Will Hays; Universal Pictures, Inc.; newsreels.
14-28 August 1928. 204 frames.
Pennsylvania censorship situation; Copyright Protection Bureau of MPPDA;
letter to William Fox.
26
Frame #
Folder
Reel 42
1928 com.
Box 38 cont.
0001
1-9 September 1928. 84 frames.
Movie publications to support Hoover for president; international newsreel.
0085
10-15 September 1928. 181 frames.
Newsreel editors; Motion Picture Club; AMPP; letter to Howard Hughes.
0266
16-31 October 1928. 236 frames.
Hollywood union agreements; Republican party matters.
Box 39
0502
0611
0778
1111
13-15 November 1928. 109 frames.
Budgets for AMPP; film board of trade; invitation to White House.
19-23 [16-23] November 1928. 167 frames.
Mary Pickford; labor contracts; board of directors meetings; Republican party.
24-30 November 1928. 333 frames.
Letter to President Coolidge; Central Casting; RNC.
1-4 December 1928. 109 frames.
Film board of trade investigation; publicity and movies.
Reel 43
1928 cont.
Box 39 cont.
0001
[Undated.] 1928. 149 frames.
Activities of MPPDA; Hollywood Screen Star Fashions, Inc.
1929
Box 39 cont.
0150
1-9 January 1929- 163 frames.
Membership record of MPPDA; Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.; Carl Laemmle.
0313
10-18 January 1929- 109 frames.
Trip to California; talkies discussion; film censorship.
0422
19-31 January 1929. 157 frames.
Universal Pictures; letter from Orville Wright; film censorship; film industry
unions.
0579
19-28 February 1929- 160 frames.
William Randolph Hearst on film censorship; film copyright; films in France.
0739
1-12 March 1929. 163 frames.
Problem of films in France; movies in South America; state legislatures and
movie problem; note from White House; film boards of trade.
0902
13-25 March 1929. 209 frames.
Antitrust suit against movie industry; films sold around world; The Marriage
Holiday, movie censorship.
27
Frame #
Folder
Box 40
1111
26-31 March 1929. 93 frames.
Film censorship; annual report of MPPDA; film exhibition; Pennsylvania
legislation against movies; movies in Europe.
28
SUBJECT INDEX
The following indexais a guide to the major subjects, within each folder, in Part I of this collection. The first
Arabic number refers to the reel, and the Arabic number after the colon refers to the frame number at which a
particular folder begins. Hence 26: 0950 directs the researcher to the folder that begins at Frame 0950 of Reel 26.
By referring to the Reel Index, the researcher can identify the title and contents of the particular folder.
Actors' equity
19: 0348
Admission tax
changing 24: 0986
general 24: 0330
repeal•lobbying expenses 17: 0129
Advertising
motion picture 20: 0580; 26: 0147; 28: 0618;
30: 0597; 34: 0947
report on motion picture 28: 0618
Air travel
22: 1089
Albee, Edward F.
letter from 22: 0001
letters to 11: 0790; 13: 1019
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
movies and 30: 0493
American Peace Awards
14: 0624
American Red Cross
see Red Cross, American
AMPAS
announcement to public of 33: 0495
founding meeting 30: 0959
general 31: 0913; 32: 0188; 33: 0122; 36: 0992
meeting 31: 0323
minutes of meeting 32: 0350
original members 33: 0495
proposed bylaws 31: 1073
AMPP
annual dinner 32: 0792
budgets 42: 0502
control of 28: 0197
cruelty to animals 16: 0212
general 15: 0138, 0311; 16: 0477; 17: 0001,
0263; 19: 0169, 1037; 22: 0001; 23: 0637;
25: 0099; 29: 0314; 31: 0474; 32: 0188,
0943; 33: 0653; 34: 0947; 35: 0116;
36: 0144; 42: 0085
report on film production 39: 0001
reports of first meeting 14: 1141
Universal's dispute with 15: 0988
Animals
cruelty to•AMPP 16. 0212
Annapolis, Maryland
40: 0288
Anticrime movement
movies and 23: 0390
Arbitration
in motion picture industry 21: 0001; 35: 0665
movie boards of 25: 0001; 31: 0685
Arbuckle, Minta Durfee (Mrs. Roscoe "Fatty")
letters from 5: 0383, 0977; 6: 0532
letter to 15: 0138
Arbuckle, Roscoe "Fatty"
case of 8: 0952
contract 8: 0631
letter from William Jennings Bryan on case
9: 0333
letter to 5: 0582
memo on 8: 0307
scandal 4: 0978; 9: 1058; 10: 0362
tax problems 10: 1047
Attorney general
13: 0370
Australia
general 30: 0001
Beery, Wallace
note to 27: 0001
Beveridge, Albert
report on Deluxe Theatre in Hammond,
Indiana, meeting 4: 0978
Bowes, Edward
motion picture distribution 19: 1161
29
Boxing films
37: 0592
Brisbane, Arthur
letter from 5: 0001
British color movie processes
14: 0197
Bryan, William Jennings
letter on Fatty Arbuckle case 9: 0333
Cabinet
Hays's retirement from 2: 0549
v
California
labor issue 31: 1073
meetings 14: 0624
trips 14: 0468; 17: 0263; 22: 1089; 37: 0160;
43: 0313
Callahans and the Murphys, The
35: 0001
Cameramen
Hollywood 35: 0395; 40: 0895
Canada
bylaws for MPPDA of 18: 0810
confidental report on film business in 26: 0287
film matters 33: 0122
movies 18: 0331
MPDDA 26: 0001
Catholic church
and movies 27: 0574; 29: 0890
Catholic luncheon
and movies 26: 0950
Censorship
church and 30: 0322
federal movie 25: 1001
film 4: 0810; 6: 0532; 9: 0205, 0528, 0948;
10: 0232; 12: 0525; 14: 0244, 0624;
15: 0810, 0988; 16: 0001; 32: 0505, 1061;
34: 1132; 36: 0992; 43: 0313, 0422, 0902,
1111
general 5: 0582; 6: 0648, 0931; 8: 0307, 0952;
12: 0886
Hearst, William Randolph, on 43: 0579
legislation 31: 0474
movies 21: 0834; 23: 0182
problems 8: 0829
reports 15: 0311
see also New York state; Pennsylvania
Censorship laws
general 9: 0695
work to stop 21: 0341
Central Casting
37: 0001; 40: 0614; 42: 0778
Chamber of Commerce, ILS.
motion pictures and 17: 0935
Chaplin, Charlie
finances 32: 0505
general 34: 0196
Chicago, Illinois
censorship 23: 0504
Children
movies suitable for 36: 1030
Chinese-American Industrial Bank
3: 0492
Christian, George B., Jr.
secretary to President Harding 6: 0777
Cohan, George M.
note from 21: 0988
College presidents
movies and 34: 0365
Community Motion Picture Service, Inc.
11: 0790
Community Service Department
of MPPDA 14: 0244
Congress
movie investigations in 29: 0890
movies and 15: 0988
Connecticut
film tax problem 23: 0809
Contracts
uniform exhibition contract 5: 0791
Uniform Motion Picture Contract
conference 25: 0099
Coolidge, Calvin
election 18: 0681
Hays's visit with 29: 0001
letters to 11: 0953; 12: 1078; 13: 0201;
18: 0331; 19: 0169; 23: 0918; 32: 0674;
37: 0592; 42: 0778
as movie fan 28: 0364
movies and 26: 0484
Copyright Protection Bureau
38: 0238; 41: 1130
Copyrights
movie 25: 1001; 43: 0579
Crime
movie portrayal of 29: 0183
Cruelty to animals
AMPP and 16: 0212
Daugherty, Harry M.
general 13: 0772
letter to 5: 0383
Teapot Dome scandal 18: 1075
Davies, Marion
note from 15: 0311
Daylight Savings Time
exhibition and 40: 0955
De Mille, CecU B.
general 33: 0870; 34: 0196, 0365; 37: 0160;
40: 0288
letter to 10: 1047
pictures 41: 0001
30
Federal government
films by 23: 0918
movies and 29: 0566
Film boards of arbitration
31: 0685
Film boards of trade
general 23: 0001; 25: 1001; 27: 0327; 28: 0001,
0364; 29: 0001; 36: 0992; 40: 0614;
42: 0502; 43: 0739
investigation 42: 1111
JD investigation of 21: 0834
Film exhibition
disputes 14: 0756
general 12: 0525; 19: 0864; 43: 1111
motion picture industry and 26: 0740
problem 23: 1078
Film extras
campaign 9: 1058
Film publicity
reports 21: 0988
Film theft
8: 0474; 16: 0212
Film Trade Practices Conference
end 36: 0001
general 34: 0553, 0733, 1132; 35: 0001, 0116,
0255, 0976
resolutions 35: 0760
First National Pictures
general 13: 0923; 33: 0870
problem 17: 0568
Florida movie studio
David O. Selznick and 23: 0504
Foreign Department
annual report of 39: 0660
Fox, William
letter from 17: 0935
letters to 13: 1154, 41: 1130
Fox Film Corporation, Jewel Carmen v.
9: 0205
Fox Movietone newsreel
33: 0495, 0653
Fox Theatres Corporation
26: 0740; 28: 0618
France
film problem 40: 0955; 43: 0739
films 39: 0927; 43: 0579
film situation 32: 0792; 40: 0420, 0740, 0895
movie question 28: 0001
movies and government 27: 0969
Friars Club
dinner 7: 0861
FTC
letter to 18: 0001
movie industry and 21: 0001; 32: 0943;
34: 0365; 35: 0395; 36: 0290, 0832
report on plans for The Ten Commandments
8: 0631
telegrams to 9: 0528; 10: 0232
Doheny, Edward L.
finances in Fairbanks-Pickford Movie Company
22: 0454
Don Juan
28: 0618
Drugs
report 9: 0948
Eastman Theatre
memo 16: 0892
Edison, Thomas Alva
letter 15: 0379
Education
movies and 30: 0001
Educational Film Foundation
35: 0665
Educational films
6: 0931; 7: 0430, 0861; 21: 0152
Europe
film situation 22: 0925; 38: 0817; 39: 0660
Hays's trip 12: 0525-0886
motion picture distribution 34: 0553
movies in 43: 1111
report on films in 33: 0001
European relief
1: 0001; 6: 0532, 0777, 0931; 7: 0251, 0430,
0861
Exhibition contract
standard 27: 0001
Exhibitors, film
annual report of relations with 41: 0171
Fairbanks, Douglas, Sr.
communications with 8: 0829
pictures 29: 0994
Fairbanks-Pickford Movie Company
Doheny finances in 22: 0454
see also Mary Pickford Motion Picture
Company; Pickford, Mary
Fall, Albert B.
Hays and 41: 0724, 0936
Famous Players-Lasky
contributions to campaign of Hiram Johnson
6: 0212
financial reports 15: 0810
Hays's correspondence with Sidney R. Kent
27: 0327
see also Paramount Pictures Corporation
Far East
film distribution in 7: 0251
Federal Council of Churches
5: 0791
Federal Council of Churches of Christ
movies and 19: 1037; 29: 0703
31
Garden of Allah; The
35: 0760
Germany
film situation 22: 0139; 24: 0826; 40: 0288
reports of movies in 15: 0001
GFWC
general 26: 0950
movie censorship and 20: 0155
Goldwyn, Sam
letters from 10: 0362; 11: 0001, 0388; 16: 0001
Government
see Federal government
Governors' conference
newsreel coverage for 22: 0651
Great Britain
film quota problem 27: 0574
films in 27: 0327
report on film problems 28: 0618; 31: 0199
"Greater Movie Season"
campaign 22: 0001
essay contest 23: 0918
general 23: 0390; 27: 0574
promotion of 20: 0340
Griffith, D.W.
Isn't Life Wonderful 19: 0348
letter to 33: 0495
note from 14: 0001
Harding, Florence (Mrs. Warren G.)
death 19: 0169
letters to 3: 0225; 11: 0953
Harding, Warren G.
letters from 6: 0532; 7: 0861
letters to 2: 0001; 5: 0582, 0977; 6: 0469;
9: 0948; 10: 0937
memorial 13: 0001
presidential campaign•confidential memo
9: 0695
reactions to death of 11: 1128
visit to motion picture studios 11: 0181
Hart, William S.
letters from 15: 0311; 17: 0463; 19: 0555;
20: 1110; 25: 0099; 30: 0001
letters to 6: 0332, 0469; 18: 0549; 19: 1037
telegram to 7: 0001
Harvard Crimson
interview with Hays 8: 0265
Harvard University
Hays's lecture 31: 0199
Hays family
genealogy 6: 0001
Hays Office
Terry Ramsaye on 29: 0566
Hearst, William Randolph
film censorship 43: 0579
general 32: 0001
letters to 7: 0593; 38: 0567
telegram to 21: 0001
Hollywood, California
arrangements for President Harding's visit
11: 0790
IATSE and 34: 0001
labor•general 13: 0370; 26: 0740; 35: 0760
labor negotiations 30: 0322, 0493
labor problems 35: 0001; 40: 1140
labor situation 29: 0566, 0703; 33: 0300, 1046;
36: 0648; 37: 0802
meetings 37: 0362
report on drugs 9: 0948
reports from 9: 0205; 12: 0525; 13: 0001;
14: 0954; 28: 0197; 30: 0493, 0805;
40: 0288; 41: 0001
union agreements 42: 0266
union troubles 35: 0255
Hollywood Bowl
10: 0001
Hollywood casting office
33: 1046
Hollywood Screen Star Fashions, Inc.
43: 0001
Hoover, Herbert
correspondence with 2: 0831
letter from 3: 0793
letters to 23: 0809; 30: 0176; 33: 0495
presidential campaign 37: 1010; 38: 0567
presidential nomination 36: 0001, 0474
Hoover, Herbert, Jr.
invitation to wedding of 22: 0800
Howard, Roy W.
32: 0505
Hughes, Charles Evans
letter to 10: 0626
Hughes, Howard
general 41: 0936
letter to 42: 0085
IATSE
see Unions
Ince, Thomas
report 14: 1141; 15: 0810
Indiana trip
14: 0001
Industrial Workers of the World
14: 0954
Internal Revenue Service (1RS)
MPPDA dealings with 6: 0332
International Golden Rule Sunday
13: 0637
International newsreel
42: 0001
Interviews
general 20: 0781
by Harvard Crimson 8: 0265
Invitations
1: 0411; 4: 0001, 0978
32
Isn't Life Wonderful?
19: 0348
Jannings, Emil
29: 0703
JD
general 13: 0923
investigation of film boards of trade 21: 0834
Jewel Carmen v. Fox Film Corporation
9: 0205
Johnson, Hiram
campaign contributions 6: 0212
Jolson, Al
36: 0290
Joyce, Peggy Hopkins
end of film employment 21: 1091
movie morals 21: 0597
Kahn, Otto
Max Remhardt and 36: 0474
Kent, Sidney R.
correspondence 27: 0327
King of Kings
41: 0349
Ku Klux Klan
35: 0760
Labor contracts
42: 0611
Labor matters
in Hollywood 13: 0370; 26: 0740
see also Unions
Laemmle, Carl
general 31: 0474; 43: 0150
report on MPPDA activities for 22: 0800
see also Universal Pictures
Lasky, Jesse
32: 0001
see also Famous Players•Lasky; Paramount
Pictures Corporation
Life insurance
2: 0001, 0549; 3: 0225, 0793; 10: 0626
Limitation of Armaments Conference
Committee on American Delegation for
2: 0549
Lindbergh, Charles
34: 0001
Loew, Marcus
letters from 21: 0469; 24: 0179
letter to 9. 0001
Long, Long Trail
premier 24: 0516
Los Angeles, California
meetings 28: 0001
report on censorship and unions in 37: 0001
Lubitsch, Ernst
citizenship 23: 0001, 0637
Marriage Holiday, The
43: 0902
Mary Pickford Motion Picture Company
33: 0001
see also Fairbanks-Pickford Movie Company;
Pickford, Mary
Massachusetts
film censorship problem 7: 0001, 0251
motion picture situation 6: 0532
movies 6: 0648
telegrams on censorship vote 7: 0430
Medicine
motion pictures used in 30: 0001
Mexico trip
37: 1010
Michigan
Motion Picture Theatre Owners 24: 0001
Mix, Tom
telegram to 36: 0648
Money appeals
3: 0793
Moore, Colleen
letter from 20: 0340
Motion Pictures Arts, First International
Congress on the
10: 0937
Motion Picture Capital Company
12: 0001
Motion Picture Club
36: 0832; 41: 0724; 42: 0085
Motion picture companies
insurance 11: 0563
Motion picture distribution
Major Edward Bowes and 19: 1161
general 19: 1037
problem 23: 1078
in West Virginia 21: 0597
Motion Picture Engineers, Society of
29: 0314
Motion picture film
safety 38: 0001
Motion picture industry
advice on job offer 1: 0165, 0411, 0652, 0970;
2: 0001, 0270, 0831; 3: 0225
antitrust suit against 43: 0902
arbitration 21: 0001; 35: 0665
basic rates of pay 26: 0287
data 6: 0212
film exhibition 26: 0740
FTC and 35: 0395; 36: 0832
FTC rules against 34: 0365
finances 20: 0890
insurance 15: 0603
labor and the 35: 0542
labor conditions 34: 0365
labor relations 32: 0350; 34: 0733
legislation against 25: 0454
33
legislation regarding 19: 0706; 22: 0651;
24: 0516; 31: 0685; 32: 0188
PR 21: 0152
report on federal government's activities on
22: 0925
Lewis Selznick's plan for 14: 0244
taxes 21: 0341
unions 43: 0422
Motion Picture Producers, Association of
see AMPP
Motion pictures
budgets 11: 0001
destruction 16: 0892
distribution 19: 1037
exhibition 11: 1128
federal legislation against 37: 0592
federal legislation and 37: 0362, 0802, 1010
financial data 17: 0129
legislative report 25: 0869
local censorship 34: 0733
psychological research on 30: 0959
reform 23: 0182
surgeon's use of 40: 0288
taxes 23: 0001
U.S. Chamber of Commerce and 17: 0935
Motion Picture Theatre Association of
America
41: 0557
Motion Picture Theatre Owners of the
Northwest
27: 0327
Movie exhibition workers
Minneapolis strike 41: 0724
Movie producers
independent•report on 24: 0330
Movie theaters
fire protection 27: 0001
licensing 19: 1161
safety 25: 0869
Movie trade practices
letter to Attorney General Charles B. Warren
20: 0890
MPPDA
activities 43: 0001
annual meeting 16: 0892
annual report 26: 0147; 38: 0342; 43: 1111
annual report of Washington office 21: 0152;
25: 0649; 39: 0001
board meeting 4: 0674
board meeting minutes 8: 0474
board meetings and actions 13: 0001
budget 10: 0232, 0937; 19: 0348; 28: 0791;
41: 0001
budget and asset accounting 12: 0886
bylaws 4: 0001, 0398
bylaws of Canadian 18: 0810
in Canada 26: 0001
certificate of incorporation 4: 0001
certification 4: 0001, 0674
Community Service Department 14: 0244
dinner dance 4: 0227
Editorial Department 25: 0649
finances 10: 0783; 21: 0469; 27: 0969
functions 34: 0299
internal matters 18: 1075; 19: 0001
internal meetings 27: 0574
Internal Revenue Service and 6: 0332
meeting, special 20: 0340
membership list 34: 0553
membership list, original 4: 0398
membership record 8: 0307; 43: 0150
membership report 14: 0468
memos 6: 0332; 7: 0593; 8: 0952; 9: 0205;
13: 1154
memos, internal 8: 0829; 11: 0388; 12: 0886;
17: 0765; 20: 1110
PR 36: 1030; 41: 0171
president's annual report 26: 0001; 36: 0603;
41: 0349
publicity 22: 0267; 28: 0791
reorganization suggestions 9: 0001
report 8: 0001
report by Universal 22: 0454
report to Carl Laemmle on activities 22: 0800
salaries 8: 0307
state legislatures and 18: 0810
statement of receipts and expenditures 4: 0810
trip to Europe for 12: 0225
Warner Bros, conflict with 19: 0555
MPTOA
campaign against Hays 20: 0781
"clean" movies 20: 0001
general 4: 0810; 5: 0977; 7: 1047; 9: 0001;
15: 0379; 16: 0705; 24: 0179; 27: 0001;
35: 0255; 37: 0802; 40: 0955; 41: 0557
Mt. Union College
honorary degree 27: 0777
My Four Years in Germany
13: 0772
National Archives
movies deposited at 29: 0001
National Board of Review
13: 0201; 25: 0454
National Education Association (NEA)
and movies 6: 0931
National Federation of Women's Clubs
and movies 21: 0988
National Shrine on the Hudson
5: 0582
National Vaudeville Artists' Club
tribute to General John J. Pershing 21: 0834
34
Pickford, Mary
35: 0542; 42: 0611
see also Fairbanks-Pickford Movie Company;
Mary Pickford Motion Picture Company
P.M.G.
1: 0001, 0165, 0411, 0652, 0970; 2: 0001,
0270, 0831; 3: 0001, 0492, 0793; 4: 0001,
0227, 0398, 0674, 0810, 0978; 5: 0001,
0179; 6: 0532; 7: 1047; 8: 0001; 10: 0001;
11: 0001, 0388; 13: 0553, 0637; 17: 1137;
18: 0331
Postal Bulletin
1: 0001, 0411; 2: 0549, 0831; 3: 0793
Post Office Department
general 2: 0549; 5: 0383; 16: 0212
matters 5: 0001, 0582, 0791, 0977; 6: 0001,
0469; 11: 0181; 12: 0225; 14: 0756
Presbyterian church
30: 0176
Presidential inaugural
plans 20: 0580
Press releases
3: 0492, 0793; 4: 0674
Princess Mascha
36: 0290
Producers Distributing Corporation
32: 0674
Prohibition
3: 0225
PTA
movies and 24: 0826
Publicity
for movie business 23: 1078
movies and 22: 1089; 42: 1111
for MPPDA 28: 0791
Publicity Men's Committee
19: 1037
PR
for movie industry 21: 0152
,
of MPPDA 36: 1030; 41: 0171
Purple Highway
13: 1019
Ramsaye, Terry
on Hays Office 29: 0566
Red Cross, American
15: 0138
Reinhardt, Max
Otto Kahn and 36: 0474
Religion
motion pictures and 29: 0994
see also Catholic church; Catholic luncheon;
Presbyterian church
Religious Motion Picture Foundation
24: 0179; 29: 0314
Republican National Club
Committee of National Affairs 23: 0390
Near East relief
7: 0430, 0861, 1047; 8: 0001, 0829, 0952;
9: 0001, 0333, 0528; 11: 0181, 0953;
13: 0370, 0637, 0923; 14: 0756, 0954;
15: 0001, 0603; 17: 0001, 0129; 18: 0331;
19: 0001
Near East Relief Committee
executive committee meeting 7: 0593
Newspaper clippings
2: 0831; 4: 0227, 0398; 5: 0179; 7: 0251, 0861;
8: 0001, 0474; 9: 0001; 11: 0790, 0953
Newsreel editors
42: 0085
Newsreels
distribution 12: 0525
general 41: 0936
potential Hoover campaign and 39: 0501
social force 28: 0364
New Year's greetings
1: 0001
New York County Supreme Court
4: 0227
New York state
censorship legislation 20: 0781
censorship of movies 19: 1037
confidential memo on censorship in 16: 0477
motion picture censorship laws 20: 0001
Nontheatrical films
16: 0001; 36: 1030
Our Gang
35: 0542
Paramount Pictures Corporation
building dedication 27: 0001
general 35: 0665
Paramount Pictures School for Actors
graduation 25: 0649
Paris, France
Film Congress in 28: 0001
Pathé Newsreel Corporation
13: 1019
Pennsylvania
Board of Censors 10: 0362
censorship situation 41: 1130
legislation against movies 43: 1111
movies in 13: 0923
Pershing, John J.
letter from 18: 0001
National Vaudeville Artists' Club tribute to
21: 0834
Phi Delta Theta
letter from 6: 0212
Philadelphia sesquicentennial
movies and 22: 0139
Photoplay
general 31: 0323; 36: 0290
national endorsers of 37: 1010
35
general 5: 0791
Hays's committee appointment 23: 0390
Republican party
affairs 7: 0001
general 7: 0430; 8: 0474; 9: 0528; 15: 0001;
17: 0568, 0761; 18: 0001, 1075; 42: 0611
matters 9: 0001; 12: 0001; 18: 0549, 0681;
42: 0266
politics 37: 0160, 0362
see also RNC
Republican primary returns
from Lake County, Indiana 5: 0001
RNC
1: 0001, 0411, 0652, 0970; 2: 0001, 0270,
0549; 3: 0001, 0225, 0492; 5: 0179, 0977;
6: 0332; 8: 0631; 10: 0362; 11: 0181;
12: 1078; 13: Ó370, 0553; 14: 0624, 0756;
15: 0603, 0810; 16: 0705, 1086; 17: 0001,
0129, 1137; 19: 0348; 20: 0580; 34: 0299;
42: 0778
Roach, Hal
letters from 16: 1086; 37: 0001
letter to 10: 0001
Safety
of motion picture film 38: 0001
Saturday morning movies
campaign 21: 1091
general 25: 0869
Scarlet Letter, The
28: 0364
Scripps-Howard Newspapers
32: 0350
Selznick, David O.
and Florida movie studio 23: 0504
Selznick, Lewis
letter from 23: 0637
plan for movie industry 14: 0244
Senate
see U.S. Senate
Seventh Heaven
36: 0992
Sheehan, Winfield
general 32: 0001
letters from 17: 0761; 36: 0648
Smith, Courtland
memos and telegrams from 8: 0001
Smyrna emergency appeal
resume of correspondence and transactions in
connection with 6: 0905
South America
motion pictures in 27: 0969; 43: 0739
Speaking invitations
1: 0001; 14: 0954
Speeches
copies 22: 0267
drafts 1: 0001; 14: 0244, 0468
general 1: 0652, 0970; 2: 0001; 4: 0227, 0810;
5: 0001, 0383, 0582; 6: 0532; 7: 0593, 0861;
8: 0001; 10: 0545, 0783; 11: 0563; 12: 0738,
1078, 1137; 19: 0864; 22: 0651; 27: 0327;
28: 0001; 29: 0890; 30: 0959; 33: 0122
Spotlight
Warner Bros, publication 29: 0183
State Department
information 1: 0970
State legislatures
movie problem and 43: 0739
movies and 27: 0001
Studio Club of Hollywood
10: 0545; 20: 0155; 22: 0139; 27: 0969
Talkies
discussion 43: 0313
Taxes
movie industry and 21: 0341
Teapot Dome scandal
congressional investigation 38: 0001, 0817;
39: 0001, 0268; 40: 0614, 0740
general 37: 0592; 38: 0342, 0567
Hays's testimony 37: 1164
hearings 40: 0001
Senate investigation 37: 1164; 39: 0501, 0660,
0927
trials 40: 0099, 0420
Technology, Motion Picture School of
36: 0992
Technology, movie
5: 0383; 23: 0390
Ten Commandments, The
plans 8: 0631
Thalberg, Irving
32: 0001
Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association
13: 1154; 16: 1086; 19: 0001
Thomas, A.D.
24: 0330
TOA
15: 0379
Trotsky, Leon
clippings 38: 0238
Uniform exhibition contract
5: 0791
Uniform Motion Picture Contract
Conference
25: 0099
Union League of New York
30: 0176
Unions
agreements 22: 0925
in film industry 43: 0422
in Hollywood 30: 0597
see also Labor contracts; Labor matters
36
United Artists
34: 0196; 36: 0474
Universal Pictures
dispute with 15: 0988
general 6: 0648; 32: 1061; 33: 1046; 35: 0001,
0976; 36: 0144; 41: 0936; 43: 0422
report on MPPDA 22: 0454
see also Laemmle, Carl
Universities
movies and 26: 0484
U.S. Army
movies and morale of 27: 0777
U.S. Navy
movies and 29: 0183
U.S. Senate
Hays's appearance before 38: 0817
Teapot Dome investigation 37: 1164; 39: 0501,
0660, 0927
Vacation
2: 0831; 3: 0225; 3: 0492
Vitagraph Movie Company
Hays's dealings 20: 1110
publicity 20: 0580
Vitaphone Corporation
general 32: 0792; 37: 0592
talkies 28: 0967
Wallace, Lew, Jr.
and MPPDA 24: 0986
Warner, Lewis
28: 0197
Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
conflict with MPPDA 19: 0555
general 29: 0314; 43: 0150
Russian film problem 24: 0001
War Relief Commission
4: 0227
Warren, Charles B.
letter to, on movie trade practices 20: 0890
West Coast Theatres
cases 17: 0463
general 17: 0263
West Virginia
movie distribution in 21: 0597
What Price Glory
30: 0176
White House
correspondence 2: 0270; 3: 0793; 5: 0791;
6: 0001, 0332, 0469, 0777; 7: 0001; 8: 0001,
0265; 10: 0232, 0362, 0545, 0783, 1047;
11: 0001, 0953; 12: 0001; 13: 0201, 0553;
15: 0379; 16: 0705; 17: 0463, 0935;
18: 0331, 0549; 19: 0555, 1161; 23: 0504;
27: 0574; 32: 1061; 33: 0300, 0653;
34: 0947; 36: 0144; 43: 0739
invitations 1: 0165, 0411; 2: 0549; 3: 0001,
0492; 13: 0201; 19: 0706; 42: 0502
Winning of Barbara Worth, The
28: 0967
Women's clubs
see GFWC; National Federation of Women's
Clubs
Wright, Orville
43: 0422
YWCA
and movies 20: 0340
Ziegfeld, Florenz
30: 0322
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THE
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Part II:
April 1929-September 1945
Part II
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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:
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Reel 10
1933 cont
1934
50
50
Reels 11-12
1934 cpnt
Reel 13
1934 cont
1935
:
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50
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;
41
51
52
Reel 14
1935 com
52
Reel 15
1935 cont
1936
52
53
Reel 16
1936 cont
53
Reel 17
1936 cont
1937
53
54
Reel 18
1937 cont
54
Reel 19
1937 cont
1938
54
55
Reels 20-21
1938 cont
55
Reel 22
1938 cont
1939
56
56
Reel 23
1939 cont
57
Reel 24
1939 cont
1940
57
57
Reels 25-26
1940 cont
58
Reel 27
1940 cont
1941
:
Reel 28
1941 cont
59
60
60
Reel 29
1941 cont
1942
,
Reel 30
1942 cont
60
61
61
42
Reel 31
1942 cont
1943
62
62
Reel 32
1943 cont
1944
62
63
Reel 33
1944 cont
63
Reel 34
1944 cont
1945
64
64
Reel 35
1945 cont
65
Subject Index
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43
REEL INDEX
Reel 1
1929 cont.
Box 40 cont.
0001
1-14 April 1929. 166 frames.
Talkies; unions and movies; New Jersey censorship legislation.
0167
15-23 April 1929. 139 frames.
Motion pictures and emotion; Hollywood wages; Hollywood trip.
0306
24-30 April 1929. 99 frames.
Fox Film Corporation; antitrust and movies; state legislation against movies.
0405
1-4 May 1929. 70 frames.
Talkies in Great Britain; arbitration bill in U.S. Congress; film censorship.
0475
5-12 May 1929. 113 frames.
Letter to President Herbert Hoover; unions and movie cameramen; MPPDA
budget; film boards of trade.
0588
13-16 May 1929. 96 frames.
Abie's Irish Rose; William Fox; movies and science.
0684
17-25 May 1929. 143 frames.
French films and quotas; European film situation and the export of talkies.
0827
26-31 May 1929. 119 frames.
GFWC and movies; movies and the church; federal legislation and movie industry.
0946
1-10 June 1929- 166 frames.
Actors' equity and unions in film industry.
Reel 2
1929 cont.
Box 40 cont.
0001
11-23 June 1929. 182 frames.
MPPDA budget; movies as a cause of crime; unions in Hollywood.
0183
24-30 June 1929. 76 frames.
Churchmen attack Hays; movies and crime problem; unions in Hollywood.
45
Frame #
Folder
0259
1-14 August 1929. 138 frames.
Warner Bros, and film boards of trade; European film situation; letter to President
Herbert Hoover.
15-30 August 1929. 242 frames.
Antitrust suits and movie industry; memo of meeting with President Hoover;
talkies; morals and movies.
1-10 September 1929. 136 frames.
Harry M. Warner; antitrust and motion picture industry; talkies.
11-30 September 1929- 212 frames.
Study of movies by National Bureau of Economic Research; The Cockeyed World;
Warner Bros.; film censorship.
1-15 October 1929. 145 frames.
Antitrust and movies; churches and movies; federal legislation.
0397
0639
0775
0987
Reel 3
1929 cont.
Box 41
0001
0086
0317
16-24 October 1929. 85 frames.
Hays's speech; AMPP; antitrust and movies.
25-31 October 1929- 231 frames.
Film censorship; report from Hollywood; MPTOA.
1-13 November 1929- 182 frames.
The Callahans and the Murphys; movie censorship; The Motion Picture magazine.
1930
Box 41 cont.
0499
1-14 January 1930. 174 frames.
MPPDA membership; GFWC and movies; MPPDA budget.
0673
15-31 January 1930. 126 frames.
The Christian Century and movies; movies and world peace; world trade and
movies.
0799
1-28 February 1930. 194 frames.
Original agreement in operation of code to govern the making of motion pictures;
report of Committee on the Use of Motion Pictures in Religious Education.
0993
1-13 March 1930. 109 frames.
Hays's speech; Catholic church and movies; Calvin Coolidge visits Hollywood.
1102
14-31 March 1930. 161 frames.
Better Films Committee; production code; Hays's speeches on film censorship.
Reel 4
1930 cont.
Box 41 cont.
0001
1-15 April 1930. 134 frames.
New production code; educational activities of MPPDA; Hays's speeches.
0135
16-30 April 1930. 154 frames.
Warner Bros, and Catholic church; education and talkies.
46
Frame #
Folder
0289
1-16 May 1930. 101 frames.
New movie code; Allied States Association of Motion Picture Exhibitors; AMPAS.
17-31 May 1930. 105 frames.
Movies and The Christian Century; film as international salesman.
0390
Box 42
0495
June 1930. 149 frames.
AMPAS; advertising code and its publicity; Hays travels to Europe.
0644
1-31 July 1930. 94 frames.
Hays travels in Europe; speeches in Europe.
0738
August 1930. 127 frames.
Return from Europe; MPPDA budget; production code; movies and morals; film
censorship.
0865
October 1930. 209 frames.
Talkies in Germany; AMPP; note from President Herbert Hoover; Standard Release
Print Agreement.
1074
November 1930. 186 frames.
Cardinal Patrick Hayes and movies; AMPAS; unions in film business.
Reel 5
1931
Box 42 cont.
0001
1-11 January 1931. 143 frames. MPPDA membership; William Randolph Hearst on film censorship; antitrust and
movies; movies and surgery.
0144
12-31 January 1931. 190 frames.
Warner Bros, and talkies; the Catholic church and movie censorship.
0334
1-14 February 1931. 137 frames.
Proposal for new newspaper in New York owned by Gannett; production code;
progress in reflecting social and community values in motion pictures.
0471
1-12 March 1931. 109 frames.
Film censorship; report on state legislation on film industry; letters to Joseph
Breen.
0580
April 1931. 208 frames.
State legislation against the movie industry; The Public Enemy; The Secret Six.
0788
1-17 May 1931. 119 frames.
Note from White House; state legislatures and movies; Al Capone and movies.
0907
18-31 May 1931. 139 frames.
State legislation and movies; memo to William Randolph Hearst on state of movie
industry.
Box 43
1046
1071
26-30 June 1931. 25 frames.
Federal Council of Churches and MPPDA.
August 1931. 217 frames.
Unions, labor matters, and movies; MPPDA budget.
47
Frame #
Folder
Reel 6
1931 cont.
Box 43 cont.
0001
1-17 September 1931, 155 frames.
Republican National Club; GFWC and movies; MPPDA budget.
0156
18-30 September 1931. 98 frames.
The movie industry and relief for unemployed.
0254
1-19 October 1931. 113 frames.
Radio stations and movies; MPPDA budget; film censorship.
0367
20-31 October 1931. 126 frames.
International Cinematographic Conference in Rome; Educational Pictures terminates membership in MPPDA.
0493
1-15 November 1931. 162 frames.
Observations on MPPDA's publicity problems and proposals for solutions; film
censorship.
0655
16-30 November 1931. 176 frames.
Travels to Hollywood; problems with RKO; Kinograms newsreels; Polly of the
Circus.
1932
Box 43 cont.
0831
16-31 January 1932. 179 frames.
Reports from Hollywood; censorship in Kentucky; Fox film; film censorship.
1010
1-14 February 1932. 126 frames.
Movie exhibition; film censorship.
Box 44
1136
15-29 February 1932. 120 frames.
Travels to Hollywood; Senator Brookhart of Iowa attacks movies.
Reel 7
1932 cont.
Box 44 cont.
0001
1-11 March 1932. 167 frames.
Survey of Hays's first ten years as head of MPPDA; AMPAS; movie censorship.
0168
12-23 March 1932. 117 frames.
Admission tax; film censorship; Motion Picture National Preference Poll.
0285
1-15 April 1932. 241 frames.
AMPAS; The Christian Century; movies and education; block booking; tenth annual
MPPDA report.
0526
16-30 April 1932. 104 frames.
Talkies; quality movie production; RCA sound equipment.
0630
19-31 May 1932. 203 frames.
Motion Picture National Preference Poll; Republican National Convention.
0833
1-12 June 1932. 168 frames.
MPTOA; RNC.
1001
13-23 June 1932. 155 frames.
Motion Picture National Preference Poll; Republican National Convention.
48
Frame #
Folder
Reel 8
1932 cont.
Box 44 cont.
0001
24-30 June 1932. 139 frames.
Unions and Hollywood; Republican party politics.
0140
1-15 July 1932. 124 frames.
Financial problems of MPPDA; Hoover campaign.
0264
16-31 July 1932. 126 frames.
Movies and morals; Republican party; Presbyterian church and movies.
0390
1-18 August 1932. 160 frames.
Newsreels; film censorship; Universal Pictures; travels to Hollywood.
Box 45
0550
0744
1-14 November 1932. 194 frames.
Herbert Hoover's campaign for president; MPPDA budget; correspondence on
Democratic sweep in 1932 elections.
15-30 November 1932. 219 frames.
Motion picture exhibition; movie industry taxes; film censorship.
1933
Box 45 cont.
0963
1-15 January 1933- 134 frames.
MPPDA membership; film censorship.
1097
February 1933- 216 frames.
Film censorship; the church and movies; funeral for Calvin Coolidge; Will Hays's
speech.
Reel 9
1933 cont.
Box 45 cont.
0001
17-31 March 1933. 169 frames.
Film censorship; salaries in Hollywood; MPPDA annual report.
0170
April 1933. 200 frames.
Film censorship; unions and movies; New York state and censorship.
0370
i-12 May 1933. 179 frames.
Film censorship; The Christian Century; U.S. Congress and movies.
0549
13-31 May 1933. 153 frames.
Film censorship; the Payne Foundation Studies of the Movies.
0702
1-15 June 1933- 131 frames.
Film censorship- children and cinema; the National Recovery Act and motion picture industry.
0833
16-30 June 1933. 101 frames.
The movies and public opinion; film censorship; movies and children; trip to
Hollywood.
0934
1-10 July 1933. 50 frames.
Film censorship; National Recovery Act and motion picture industry.
49
Frame #
Folder
Box 46
0984
September 1933. 169 frames.
Film censorship; NRA and movies; Will Rogers; traveling to New York from
California.
Reel 10
1933 cont.
Box 46 cont.
0001
October 1933. 182 frames.
Film censorship; movies and NRA.
0183
1-14 November 1933. 190 frames.
Film censorship; MPTOA.
0373
15-30 November 1933. 168 frames.
Universal Pictures and Carl Laemmle; NRA and movies.
1934
Box 46 cont.
0541
1-10 January 1934. 106 frames.
MPPDA membership; film censorship; NRA and movie industry.
0657
11-20 January 1934. 146 frames.
Film censorship; NRA and movies; block booking of movies.
0803
22-31 January 1934. 11 frames.
Film censorship.
0814
1-16 February 1934. 176 frames.
Film censorship; PR for movie industry.
0990
17-28 February 1934. 119 frames.
Film and law; film censorship.
1109
1-14 March 1934. 119 frames.
Hay's speech; Catholics and movies; film censorship.
Reel 11
1934 cont.
Box 46 cont.
0001
15-26 March 1934. 115 frames.
Hays's speech; film censorship; Federal Motion Picture Council.
0116
27-31 March 1934. 149 frames.
Academy awards; film censorship; block booking.
0265
1-11 April 1934. 25 frames.
Interview with Hays; film censorship; RNC.
0290
12-18 April 1934. 75 frames.
MPTOA; statistics; admission tax in Ohio.
0365
19-30 April 1934. 139 frames.
Report of the Cinematographic Committee of National Council of Women; Motion
Picture Research Council.
0504
1-17 May 1934. 175 frames.
Film censorship; NRA and movies.
50
Frame #
Folder
0679
18-31 May 1934. 181 frames.
Film censorship; Catholic church and movies; educational films.
1-8 June 1934. 144 frames.
Film censorship; Catholic church and movies.
0860
Box 47
1004
9-19 June 1934. 236 frames.
Catholic Legion of Decency's boycott of movies; film censorship; movies and
crime; motion picture code.
Reel 12
1934 cont.
Box 47 cont.
0001
20-30 June 1934. 145 frames.
Federal Council of Churches of Christ on movie problem; French trade with
Hollywood.
0146
1-16 July 1934. 200 frames.
Religion and movies; film censorship.
0346
17-31 July 1934. 179 frames.
Film censorship; Legion of Decency; religion and movies.
0525
1-15 August 1934. 169 frames.
National Episcopal Committee on Motion Pictures; film censorship.
0694
16-31 August 1934. 183 frames.
Interview with Will Hays; Catholic church and movies; film censorship.
0877
1^12 September 1934. 149 frames.
Publicity and MPPDA; AMPP; film censorship.
1026
13-30 September 1934. 263 frames.
Movie code; film censorship; educational films.
Reel 13
1934 cont.
Box 47 cont.
0001
1-10 October 1934. 174 frames.
Catholic church; film censorship; Central Casting.
0175
11-25 October 1934. 191 frames.
Publicity for motion picture code; block booking of movies; William Randolph
Hearst; movies and antitrust.
0366
26-31 October 1934. 157 frames.
Movie censorship; Warner Bros.; International Federation of Catholic Alumnae;
Motion Picture Bureau.
0523
1-9 November 1934. 154 frames.
Movie publicity; movie censorship; actors' equity and movie unions.
0677
10-20 November 1934. 201 frames.
PCA; report to Presbyterian church on movies and morals.
0878
1-15 December 1934. 26 frames.
Federal Council of Churches of Christ resolution on movies; Catholic Legion
of Decency.
51
Frame #
Folder
0904
16-31 December 1934. 48 frames.
Movies and social behavior; Catholic church and movies.
Box 48
0952
1-14 January 1935. 168 frames.
Membership of MPPDA; trip to Hollywood; Catholic church and movies; antitrust
and movies.
Reel 14
1935 cont.
Box 48 cont.
0001
15-31 January 1935. 127 frames.
Exporting movies to Czechoslovakia; The Man Who Reclaimed His Head, Presbyterians and movies.
0128
1-15 February 1935. 200 frames.
Commander Richard E. Byrd and movies; Uncle Sam Gets His Man; social values
and movies.
0328
16-28 February 1935. 124 frames.
Antitrust and movies; meetings with attorney general of United States.
0452
1-16 March 1935. 163 frames.
Newspapers and movies; antitrust and movies; Let Em Have It, Catholic church
and motion picture industry.
0615
11-24 March 1935. 134 frames.
Movie code for short subjects; FBI and movies; John Dillinger motion picture.
0749
25-31 March 1935. 92 frames.
MPPDA annual report; MPPDA members; Uncle Sam Gets His Man.
0841
1-14 April 1935. 123 frames.
Travels to California; Presbyterians and Hollywood.
0964
16-31 July 1935. 124 frames.
Catholic church and movies; meetings in Hollywood.
1088
1-12 September 1935. 76 frames.
Film libraries for schools; movies and advertising.
Reel 15
1935 cont.
Box 48 cont.
0001
13-30 September 1935. 156 frames.
Movies in Detroit; returns from West Coast trip.
0157
14-31 October 1935. 170 frames.
Hays's radio address on movies and future; motion picture study guides.
Box 49
0327
1-17 December 1935. 148 frames.
Will Rogers Memorial Program; fire insurance and movies; trip to East from
California.
52
Frame #
Folder
1936
Box 49 cont.
0475
16-29 February 1936. 163 frames.
It Can't Happen Here; Doris Kenyon; newspapers and movies; block booking
report.
0638
1-15 March 1936. 123 frames.
Catholic church and movies; RNC
0761
16-31 March 1936. 237 frames.
Film censorship and federal legislation; MPPDA annual report.
0998
1-15 April 1936. 145 frames.
Selected motion pictures suggested by MPPDA; survey of sixty leading movie
directors; NRA and movies.
Reel 16
1936 cont.
Box 49 cont.
0001
1-19 May 1936. 151 frames.
Meetings in Hollywood; AMPP; investigation by JD of movie industry.
0152
20-31 May 1936. 112 frames.
JD investigation of movies; antitrust.
0264
20-30 June 1936. 173 frames.
Antitrust; Hays's speech; block booking; film censorship.
0437
1-19 July 1936. 173 frames.
Alf Landon; film censorship; antitrust; motion pictures and public opinion.
Box 50
0610
0750
0862
0960
1101
1-16 August 1936. 140 frames.
Report on history of motion picture industry; trip to Hollywood; The Charge of the
Light Brigade.
17-31 August 1936. 112 frames.
Review of 1936•1937 movie season, by Hays; Universal Pictures sale; antitrust.
1-15 September 1936. 98 frames.
Universal Pictures sale; antitrust; Irving Thalberg's death.
16-30 September 1936. 141 frames.
Republican party politics; investigation of movie industry by JD; motion picture
curriculum for schools.
1-16 October 1936. 116 frames.
JD investigation of movie industry; admission prices to movies.
Reel 17
1936 cont.
Box 50 cont.
0001
1-18 November 1936. 168 frames.
Sails to Europe for month's vacation; JD investigates movie industry.
0169
19-28 November 1936. 105 frames.
Travels in Europe; letters from William Randolph Hearst, meetings on Italian
movies.
53
Frame #
Folder
0274
1-12 December 1936. 170 frames.
Returns to U.S.; British Board of Censors; film trade in England.
1937
Box 50 cont.
0444
19-31 January 1937. 156 frames.
Italian film situation; remarks by Hays at Walt Disney's testimonial dinner.
0600
1-11 February 1937. 68 frames.
Block booking; The Eternal Road; communism and movies.
0768
12-28 February 1937. 210 frames.
Will Rogers Memorial; movies and international trade.
0978
1-4 March 1937. 128 frames.
TOA; MPPDA fifteenth anniversary.
Reel 18
1937 cont.
Box 50 cont.
0001
5-7 March 1937. 168 frames.
British film situation.
Box 51
0169
0342
0494
0637
0772
0892
1007
8-9 March 1937. 173 frames.
Theatre Owners Chamber of Commerce; MPPDA fifteenth anniversary.
10-17 March 1937. 152 frames.
Report on movie trade papers; Hays's speech; MPPDA fifteenth anniversary.
18-31 March 1937. 143 frames.
American film trade with Italy; U.S. House of Representatives investigation of
movie industry; MPPDA annual report.
15-30 April 1937. 135 frames.
Film trade in Italy; unions in Hollywood; film trade in England.
1-17 May 1937. 120 frames.
Film trade in England; Hays's speech.
18-31 May 1937. 115 frames.
Film trade with Italy; film trade with England.
17-30 June 1937. 131 frames.
Sam Goldwyn; film trade with Italy.
Reel 19
1937 cont.
Box 51 cont.
0001
August 1937. 250 frames.
Film trade in England.
0251
1-14 October 1937. 172 frames.
Review by MPPDA of 1937-1938 movie season; Republican party politics;
Alcatraz Island.
0423
15-30 October 1937. 222 frames.
Better Movies Campaign; Republican party politics.
54
Frame #
Folder
0645
1-10 November 1937. 171 frames.
Film trade in Italy; Republican party politics.
Box 52
0816
[Undated] 92 frames.
Membership criteria for MPPDA; film trade in England; encyclical letter of Pope
Pius XI on motion pictures.
1938
Box 52 cont.
0908
1-14 January 1938. 189 frames.
Reports on Republican party politics; speech by Cecil B. De Mille.
1097
15-18 January 1938. 127 frames.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs-, newspaper coverage of movies; Hays's speech.
Reel 20
1938 cont.
Box 52 cont.
0001
19-27 January 1938. 112 frames.
Reports on Republican party politics; travels to Hollywood.
0113
28-31 January 1938. 81 frames.
Return from Hollywood; film trade with England; reports on Republican party.
0194
13-15 February 1938. 62 frames.
Film trade with England.
0256
16-28 February' 1938. 192 frames.
British film actors in Hollywood; Hays's speeches; quotas on Hollywood films in
Great Britain.
0448
1-14 March 1938. 152 frames.
American youth and movies; U.S. legislation on block booking.
0600
15-31 March 1938. 211 frames.
Film censorship and block booking; film trade in Italy; MPPDA annual report.
0811
15-30 April 1938. 108 frames.
U.S. Senate bill banning block booking.
0919
1-13 May 1938. 152 frames.
Report on American films in London; International Exhibition of Cinematographic
Art; Hays's speech.
1071
14-31 May 1938. 208 frames.
Financing movies; motion picture and family.
Reel 21
1938 cont.
Box 52 cont.
0001
1-13 June 1938. 155 frames.
U.S. Senate bill banning block booking; AMPP.
55
Frame #
Box 53
0156
0387
0576
0786
0916
1041
folder
14-30 June 1938. 231 frames.
Meeting of Hays and film industry executives, with President Franklin D.
Roosevelt; movies in Italy.
1-31 August 1938. 189 frames.
Cecil B. De Mille on Republican party politics; meetings in Hollywood.
September 1938. 210 frames.
British film industry; film trade in Italy; reports on results of California primary;
Cecil D. De Mille radio speech.
12-21 October 1938. 130 frames.
Movie PR; European film situation; speech by Douglas Fairbanks.
22-30 October 1938. 125 frames.
Movie PR; Herald Tribune Forum on Current Problems; Hays's speeches.
1-12 December 1938. 157 frames.
"Films for Democracy"; film advertising; film censorship.
Reel 22
1938 cont.
Box 53 cont.
0001
13-19 December 1938. 55 frames.
"Films for Democracy"; European film situation.
1939
Box 53 cont.
0056
1-10 January 1939. 93 frames.
Republican party politics; film censorship; Hays's speech.
0149
11-31 January 1939. 224 frames.
Memorandum on constitutionality of censorship of newsreels; film themes; reports
from Hollywood.
Box 54
0373
February 1939. 176 frames.
Antitrust; film censorship; film trade in Italy; PCA.
0549
1-10 March 1939. 162 frames.
Academy awards; film censorship; film trade in Italy.
0711
11-17 March 1939. 80 frames.
Movie advertising; U.S. Senate bill to ban block booking.
0791
18-31 March 1939. 198 frames.
California legislature and movies; MPPDA annual report; film censorship.
0989
1-16 April 1939. 137 frames.
U.S. Senate bill on block booking; New York state and film censorship.
56
Frame #
Folder
Reel 23
1939 cont.
Box 54 cont.
0001
17-30 April 1939. 191 frames.
European film situation; block booking; motion pictures and business; motion picture distribution; motion pictures and education; motion picture production.
0192
1-12 May 1939. 149 frames.
Admission tax in movie theatres in California; film censorship.
0341
1-9 June 1939. 155 frames.
Antitrust; Hays's speech; U.S. Senate bill to ban block booking; the motion picture
in education.
0496
1-13 July 1939. 182 frames.
The motion picture in education; European film situation; Hays's speech.
0678
14-31 July 1939. 4 frames.
Block booking; film trade in Italy.
0682
1-15 September 1939. 103 frames.
Travels to Hollywood; United States v. Paramount Pictures et al. (antitrust case);
synopses of short stories by Will James.
Box 55
0785
0936
1116
12-31 October 1939. 151 frames.
Report on U.S. government antitrust actions against movie industry; United Artists
trouble in Holland; history of motion picture industry; press summaries.
1-14 November 1939- 180 frames.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; Charles Boyer; press summaries.
15-21 November 1939. 147 frames.
Charles Boyer; Will Rogers; press summaries.
Reel 24
1939 cont.
Box 55 cont.
0001
22-30 November 1939. 106 frames.
Commission for Polish Relief; agreement with Great Britain on film imports; House
of Representatives bill against block booking.
0107
1-19 December 1939. 153 frames.
Gone With the Wind; unions in Hollywood; block booking; film trade with Italy;
press summaries.
1940
Box 55 cont.
0260
1-13 January 1940. 160 frames.
The movies in 1939; Gone With the Wind; film export to Holland; block booking;
press summaries.
0420
16-29 February 1940. 204 frames.
Block booking; film export to Italy; press summaries.
57
Frame #
Folder
0624
1-7 March 1940. 112 frames.
Block booking; motion pictures and literature; United States v. Paramount
Pictures (antitrust case); press summaries.
16-26 March 1940. 192 frames.
Block booking; MPPDA annual report; press summaries.
16-31 [27-31] March 1940. 151 frames.
Republican party politics; film censorship; block booking; young people and
movies; press summaries.
0736
0928
Box 56
1079
20-30 April 1940. 177 frames.
Music and motion pictures; National Labor Relations Act.
Reel 25
1940 com.
Box 56 cont.
0001
1-7 May 1940. 150 frames.
John W. Bricker for President campaign; Wendell L Willkie; block booking; music
and motion pictures, press summaries; the Democratic party and business.
0151
14-19 May 1940. 146 frames.
Block booking; United States v. Paramount Pictures et al. (antitrust case;) political outlook for 1940 by Opinion Research Corporation; press summaries.
0297
20-24 May 1940. 110 frames.
Republican party; delegate to national convention; Indiana political highlights;
press summaries.
0407
25-31 May 1940. 125 frames.
Block booking; RNC; press summaries; Wendell L. Willkie.
0532
1-7 June 1940. 166 frames.
Block booking; Republican party and convention; press summaries; Wendell L
Willkie.
0698
8-12 June 1940. 178 frames.
Republican National Convention; block booking; defense and foreign policy;
Wendell L. Willkie; press summaries.
0876
13-17 June 1940. 181 frames.
Block booking; Republican National Convention; Wendell L. Willkie; press
summaries.
1057
18-22 June 1940. 199 frames.
Republican National Convention; newsreels; Wendell L. Willkie; press summaries.
Reel 26
1940 cont.
Box 56 cont.
0001
23-30 June 1940. 183 frames.
Republican National Convention; Wendell E. Willkie; press summaries.
58
Frame #
Folder
0184
1-10 August 1940. Ill frames.
Travels to Los Angeles; unions and Hollywood; communism and movies; double
features; press summaries.
12-21 August 1940. 119 frames.
PCA; film censorship; Wendell L. Willkie; press summaries.
0295
Box 57
0414
0512
0624
0778
0888
1003
1146
22-31 August 1940. 98 frames.
PCA; movies and communism; press summaries.
1-14 September 1940. 112 frames.
RNC; newsreels; PCA; movie propaganda; press summaries.
15-25 September 1940. 154 frames.
Campaign of Wendell L. Willkie for president; film censorship; press summaries;
Charles Lindbergh.
1-7 October 1940. 110 frames.
Hays's speech; press summaries; PCA; Wendell L. Willkie's president campaign;
Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association.
8-11 October 1940. 115 frames.
A Dispatch from Reuters; movies and war effort; Willkie presidential campaign;
RNC; press summaries.
12-17 October 1940. 143 frames.
Film censorship; movies and communism; Republican campaign for president;
press summaries; Clare Boothe [Luce] speech.
25-31 October 1940. 152 frames.
Raymond Loewy; film censorship; British film trade; press summaries; Willkie
presidential campaign; motion pictures and national defense.
Reel 27
1940 cont.
Box 57 cont.
0001
5-8 November 1940. 134 frames.
Film trade with Great Britain; reports of November 1940 elections; press
summaries; Joseph Kennedy cables.
0135
9-11 November 1940. 260 frames.
Film trade in Great Britain; follow-up to November 1940 elections; Hays's speech;
Joseph Kennedy press statement.
0395
12-13 November 1940. 225 frames.
Antitrust and movies; biography of Courtland Smith; film trade in England; press
summaries.
0620
14-18 November 1940. 114 frames.
Film trade in England; Republican party politics; press summaries.
0734
27-30 November 1940. 96 frames.
Film agreement for England; antitrust; Republican party politics; press summaries;
"Railroads and National Transportation Policy."
0830
10-18 December 1940. 141 frames.
PCA; film trade in England; Hays's speech; press summaries; tribute to John
McCutcheon.
59
Frame #
Folder
1941
Box 58
0971
1058
1172
1-9 January 1941. 87 frames.
Women's clubs and movies; film trade in England; press summaries; Transportation
Association of America.
10-20 January 1941. 114 frames.
Film trade in England; analysis of Wendell Willkie's campaign for presidency; film
propaganda; press summaries.
21-31 January 1941. 123 frames.
Film trade with England; production code; press summaries.
Reel 28
1941 cont.
Box 58 cont.
0001
1-15 March 1941. 104 frames.
Will Hays meets with President Franklin D. Roosevelt; MPPDA annual report; analysis of Wendell Willkie's campaign; press summaries.
0105
16-31 March 1941. 218 frames.
MPPDA annual report; block booking legislation in Georgia; press summaries;
analysis of capital structure of Continental Baking Company; MPPDA certificate of
incorporation and bylaws.
0323
15-30 April 1941. 140 frames.
Motion Picture Committee Cooperating for National Defense; press summaries;
film-related legislation in New Mexico; PCA.
0463
1-14 May 1941. 84 frames.
Newsreels; Hays's illness; press summaries.
0547
15-31 May 1941. 161 frames.
Latin America and movies; Hays's illness; press summaries; Continental Baking
Company.
0708
1-15 June 1941. 112 frames.
False reports of Hays's death; Hays leaves hospital; press summaries.
0820
16-30 June 1941. 187 frames.
Quarterly report of MPPDA; Joseph Breen resigns from PCA; Hays's vacation in
Sullivan, Indiana; press summaries.
1007
1-18 August 1941. 149 frames.
Hollywood and World War II; Darryl F. Zanuck and film propaganda.
Reel 29
1941 cont.
Box 58 cont.
0001
19-31 August 1941. 126 frames.
No Greater Sin-, U.S. Senate investigates film propaganda; state legislatures and
movie laws.
0127
1-14 September 1941. 142 frames.
War movie propaganda; U.S. Senate investigates propaganda and movies; Three
Little Words; press summaries.
60
Frame #
Folder
0269
15-30 September 1941. 138 frames.
U.S. Senate investigates film propaganda; press summaries.
Box 59
0407
0602
0722
0913
1-30 October 1941. 195 frames.
U.S. Senate investigates movie industry propaganda; film industry and World War
II; press summaries; Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association.
10-21 November 1941. 120 frames.
Republican party politics; AMPAS and World War II; press summaries.
22-30 November 1941. 191 frames.
Irene Dunne; "The Role of the Opposition Party in American Democracy"; Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association; press summaries; Indiana Society Dinner.
1-8 December 1941. 166 frames.
Will Hays and Joseph P. Kennedy contract; Screen Actors Guild; Indiana Society
Dinner.
1942
Box 59 cont.
1079
9-15 January 1942. 177 frames.
War bond rally in Indianapolis; broadcast on Mutual Radio.
Reel 30
1942 cont.
Box 59 cont.
0001
20-26 January 1942. 120 frames.
Victory rallies and Clark Gable; war bond sales; Congressional Record; death of
Carole Lombard; press summaries.
0121
27-31 January 1942. 4 frames.
Reorganization of MPPDA.
0125
February 1942. 186 frames.
Joseph P. Kennedy and World War II; labor relations in Hollywood; reorganization
of MPPDA; press summaries; "Problems Confronting the Motion Picture Industry
in World War Conditions."
0311
1-23 March 1942. 165 frames.
Returns from California; twentieth anniversary of MPPDA; MPPDA activities; press
summaries.
0476
19-30 April 1942. 174 frames.
PCA; press summaries; interview with Hays.
Box 60
0650
0765
0971
1-13 May 1942. 115 frames.
Hollywood movies and movies on World War II effort; war bond sales; press
summaries; Hays's speech.
14-31 May 1942. 206 frames.
Movies about World War II; Latin America and movies; press summaries; Army
Specialist Corps regulations.
16-30 June 1942. 5 frames.
Film propaganda; World War II and movies.
61
Frame #
Folder
0976
1-22 July 1942. 158 frames.
PR and movies; British film industry; press summaries; Civil Aeronautics Board
accident report regarding Carole Lombard; Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association.
Reel 31
e
1942 cont.
Box 60 cont.
0001
23-31 July 1942. 103 frames.
Remember Pearl Harbor, history of 1920 Republican National Convention;
Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association.
0104
13-31 August 1942. 149 frames.
Reorganization of MPPDA; war bond rallies; Motion Picture Herald, press
summaries.
0253
15-30 September 1942. 15 frames.
Movie PR; war bond rallies.
0268
1-16 October 1942. 100 frames.
War bond rallies and sales; Hollywood reports; press summaries.
0368
1-10 November 1942. 171 frames.
PCA; British film industry; pay freeze hits Hollywood; The Robe, press summaries.
1943
Box 60 cont.
0539
1-18 January 1943. 191 frames.
War bond rally; Australia and film industry; "The Advertising Vision for 1944";
press summaries; Movies at War by War Activities Committee.
Box 61
0730
0929
0931
1075
1-16 March 1943- 199 frames.
The movies and World War II; twenty-first anniversary of MPPDA; press
summaries; lend-lease luncheon; Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association;
Waldorf-Astoria fiftieth anniversary.
1-16 April 1943. 2 frames.
Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of the Modem Navy.
17-30 April 1943. 144 frames.
Motion pictures around world; film export to Latin America; press summaries.
15-30 May 1943. 227 frames.
Republican national party; Mission to Moscow.
Reel 32
1943 cont.
Box 61 cont.
0001
1-16 June 1943. 186 frames.
Quo Vadis; MPPDA's PR; North Carolina film matter; press summaries.
0187
1-15 July 1943. 121 frames.
Report from Hollywood; movies and World War II; Motion Picture Herald; press
summaries.
62
Frame #
Folder
0308
16-31 July 1943. 7 frames.
Abolition of Board of Economic Warfare; establishment of Office of War Mobilization.
1-17 August 1943. 130 frames.
Hays in California; PCA; educational films; press summaries.
18-31 August 1943- 4 frames.
State politics in Wisconsin and Texas; Hollywood studio tours for Congressman
Jennings Randolph and Senator Albert Hawkes.
1-16 September 1943. 13 frames.
Returns from California; One World; reorganization of MPPDA.
17-30 September 1943. 294 frames.
Movies used by armed services; newspapers and Republican party; actors and
studio personnel in armed forces; war bond rallies; Jimmie Fidler radio broadcasts;
address by Henry J. Taylor; press summaries.
1-15 October 1943. 166 frames.
The movies and the Soviet Union; resignation of Charles Francis Coe; address by
Jesse H. Jones.
0315
0445
0449
0462
0756
Box 62
0922
1053
1055
1-12 December 1943. 131 frames.
"The Christian and the Movies"; PCA; War Activities Committee; speech by Governor John Bricker.
13-21 December 1943. 2 frames.
"The Christian and the Movies."
22-31 December 1943. 192 frames.
Motion pictures in China; movies' role in World War II; twenty-fifth anniversary of
death of Theodore Roosevelt.
1944
Box 62 cont.
1247
1-10 January 1944. 1 frame.
Studio visit for Dr. Cavell.
Reel 33
1944 cont.
Box 62 cont.
0001
19-29 February 1944. 92 frames.
Movie legislation in North Carolina.
0093
1-17 March 1944. 170 frames.
Cinema in World War II; films in Great Britain; press summaries.
0263
18-31 March 1944. 187 frames.
Film trade in Great Britain; MPPDA annual report; fiftieth anniversary of motion
pictures.
0450
1-15 April 1944. 10 frames.
Movies and World War II.
0460
16-30 April 1944. 190 frames.
Fiftieth anniversary of movies; film trade in England; address by Charles Francis
Coe; press summaries; motion pictures and education.
63
Frame #
Folder
0650
1-17 May 1944. 16 frames.
Film trade in England.
18-31 May 1944. 8 frames.
Speech by Joseph P. Kennedy.
June 1944. 261 frames.
Movies and World War II; Daughters of the American Revolution; John F. Kennedy
awarded Navy and Marine Corps Medal; address by Joseph P. Kennedy; Hays Office
in foreign affairs; proposal for United Nations.
1-18 July 1944. 107 frames.
Movies in South America; Hollywood unions.
19-31 July 1944. 144 frames.
Fiftieth anniversary of movies; War Activities Committee; movies in Europe; press
summaries; Hays Office in foreign affairs.
August 1944. 189 frames.
Movies and World War II; movie popularity; death of Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.; press
summaries.
0666
0674
0935
1042
1186
Reel 34
1944 cont.
Box 63
0001
0119
0230
0390
0517
0610
1-18 September 1944. 118 frames.
Youth Runs Wild; movie advertising; articles on John Foster Dulles.
1-13 October 1944. Ill frames.
Unions in Hollywood; Hitler's Children newsreels; death of Wendell L. Willkie;
congressional campaign of Clare Boothe Luce.
14-31 October 1944. 160 frames.
Jimmy Steps Out; films and U.S. soldiers; presidential campaign of 1944; electronic
research; Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association.
1-9 November 1944. 127 frames.
Fiftieth anniversary of film commemorative stamp; sixth bond drive; 1944 election
results.
21-30 November 1944. 93 frames.
Movies in Latin America; movies in education; Hays's speech.
22-31 December 1944. 79 frames.
Unions and Hollywood; article on John Foster Dulles.
1945
Box 63 cont.
0689
January 1945. 182 frames.
Analysis of November 1944 election; films and society; letter from William S. Hart;
speech by Eric Johnston.
0871
February 1945. 181 frames.
Rumors Eric Johnston will replace Hays as MPPDA president; films in Europe; Air
Power League; organization of MPPDA.
64
Frame #
Folder
Reel 35
1945 cont.
Box 63 cont.
0001
March 1945. 122 frames.
Movies overseas; address by Joseph Grew.
0123
April 1945. 244 frames.
Hays's speech on United Nations; Academy of Political Science dinner; letter from
Ingrid Bergman; movies in peace and war; Hays's statement on the death of
Franklin Roosevelt; address by Herbert Hoover.
0367
17-31 May 1945. 144 frames.
MPPDA after World War II; special meetings with J. Arthur Rank.
0511
1-11 June 1945. 115 frames.
Special meetings with J. Arthur Rank.
0626
July 1945. 138 frames.
Movie export to England; Raymond Moley's book, The Hays Office; rumors that
Eric Johnston will succeed Hays as president of MPPDA.
0764
August 1945. 114 frames.
Agreement that Hays will resign from MPPDA effective 15 September 1945; films
in Latin America; The Hays Office.
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SUBJECT INDEX
The following index is a guide to the major subjects within each folder of Part II of this collection. The first
Arabic number refers to the reel, and the Arabic number after the colon réfers to the frame number at which a
particular folder begins. Hence 4: 0644 directs the researcher to the folder that begins at Frame 0644 of Reel 4. By
referring to the Reel Index, the researcher can identify the title and contents of the particular folder.
Antitrust legislation
general 16: 0152, 0264, 0437, 0750, 0862;
22: 0373; 23: 0341; 27: 0734
movies and 1: 0306; 2: 0987; 3: 0001; 5: 0001;
13: 0175, 0952; 14: 0328, 0452; 27: 0395
report of U.S. government actions against
movie industry 23: 0785
Antitrust suits
see Lawsuits
Arbitration bill
in U.S. Congress 1: 0405
Armed forces
actors and studio personnel in 32: 0462
movies used by 32: 0462
Army Specialist Corps
regulations 30: 0765
Australia
film industry and 31: 0539
Behavior, social
movies and 13: 0878
Bergman, Ingrid
letter from 35: 0123
Better Films Committee
3: 1102
Better Movies Campaign
19: 0423
Block booking
film censorship and 20: 0600
general 7: 0285; 10: 0657; 11: 0116; 13: 0175;
16: 0264; 17: 0600; 23: 0001, 0678;
24: 0107, 0260, 0420, 0624, 0736, 0928;
25: 0001, 0151, 0407, 0532, 0698, 0876
House of Representatives bill against 24: 0001
legislation 20: 0448
legislation in Georgia 28: 0105
Abie's Irish Rose
1: 0588
Academy Awards
11: 0116; 22: 0549
Actors
British•in Hollywood 20: 0256
Actors' equity
general 1: 0946
movie unions and 13: 0523
Admission prices
movies 16: 1101
Admission tax
California 23: 0192
general 7: 0168
Ohio 11: 0290
Advertising
film 21: 1041; 22: 0711; 34: 0001
movies and 14: 1088
vision for 1944 31: 0539
see also PR; Publicity
Advertising Code
publicity 4: 0495
Air Power League
34: 0871
Alcatraz Island
19: 0251
Allied States Association of Motion Picture
Exhibitors
4: 0289
AMPAS
general 4: 0289, 0495, 1074; 7: 0001, 0285
World War II and 29: 0602
AMPP
general 3: 0001; 4: 0865; 12: 0877; 21: 0001
representatives of 16: 0001
67
report 15: 0475
Senate bill banning 20: 0811; 21: 0001;
22: 0711, 0989; 23: 0341
Board of Censors, British
17: 0274
Boothe, Clare
see Luce, Clare Boothe
Boyer, Charles
23: 0936, 1116
Breen, Joseph
letters to 5: 0471
resigns from PCA 28: 0820
Bricker, John W.
presidential campaign 25: 0001
speech 32: 0922
Brookhart, Smith Wildman
attacks on movies 6: 1136
Business
Democratic party and 25: 0001
motion pictures and 23: 0001
see also Motion picture industry
Byrd, Richard E.
movies and 14: 0128
California
admission tax in movie theatres 23: 0192
Hays's travels to 14: 0841
1938 primary election results 21: 0576
Callahans and the Murphys, The
3: 0317
Cameramen
unions and 1: 0475
Capone, Alphonse (Al)
movies and 5: 0788
Catholic Alumnae, International
Federation of
13: 0366
Catholic church
general 13: 0001
motion picture industry and 14: 0452
movie censorship and 5: 0144
movies and 3: 0993; 11: 0679, 0860; 12: 0694;
13: 0904, 0952; 14: 0964; 15: 0638
Warner Bros, and 4: 0135
see also Churches; Religion
Catholic Legion of Decency
boycott of the movies 11: 1004
general 12: 0346; 13: 0878
Catholics
movies and 10: 1109
Cavell, Dr.
studio visit 32: 1247
Censorship
legislation in New Jersey 1: 0001
of films 1: 0405; 2: 0775; 3: 0086, 0317;
4: 0738; 5: 0471; 6: 0254, 0493, 0831, 1010;
7: 0001, 0168; 8: 0390, 0744, 0963, 1097;
9: 0001, 0170, 0370, 0549, 0702, 0833,
0934, 0984; 10: 0001, 0183, 0541, 0657,
0803, 0814, 0990, 1109; 11: 0001, 0116,
0265, 0504, 0679, 0860, 1004; 12: 0146,
0346, 0525, 0694, 0877, 1026; 13: 0001,
0366, 0523; 16: 0264, 0437; 21: 1041;
22: 0056, 0373, 0549, 0791; 23: 0192;
24: 0928; 26: 0295, 0624, 1003, 1146
see also New York state
Central Casting
13: 0001
Charge of the Light Brigade, The
16: 0610
Children
movies and 9: 0702, 0833
China
motion pictures in 32: 1055
Christian Century
general 7: 0285; 9: 0370
movies and 3: 0673; 4: 0390
Churches
Christians and movies 32: 0922, 1253
Federar Council of Churches of Christ
12: 0001; 13: 0878
movies and 2: 0987
see also Religion;" headings under Catholic;
headings under Presbyterian
Cinematographic Art, International
Exhibition of
20: 0919
Cinematographic Conference, International
in Rome 6: 0367
Civil Aeronautics Board
accident report 30: 0976
Cockeyed World, The
2: 0775
Coe, Charles Francis
address by 33: 0460
resignation from MPPDA 32: 0756
Committee on the Use of Motion Pictures in
Religious Education
report 3: 0799
Communism
movies and 17: 0600; 26: 0184, 0414, 1003
Congress, U.S.
see U.S. Congress
Congressional Record
30: 0001
Continental Baking Company
analysis of capital structure 28: 0105
general 28: 0547
Coolidge, Calvin
funeral 8: 1097
visit to Hollywood 3: 0993
68
Council of Churches, Federal
MPPDA and 5: 1046
Crime
movies and 11: 1004
movies as cause of 2: 0001
Cummings, Homer S.
meetings 14: 0328
Curriculum, motion picture
for schools 16: 0960
see also Education
Czechoslovakia
exporting movies to 14: 0001
Daughters of the American Revolution
(DAR)
33: 0674
Defense
foreign policy and 25: 0698
national•motion pictures and 26: 1146
De Mille, Cecil B.
radio speech 21: 0576
Republican party politics 21: 0387
speech 19: 0908
Democracy
role of opposition party 29: 0722
Democratic party
business and 25: 0001
1932 election victory 8: 0550
Detroit, Michigan
movies in 15: 0001
Dillinger, John
motion picture about 14: 0615
Directors, movie
survey of leading 15: 0998
Disney, Walt
testimonial dinner for 17: 0444
Dispatch from Reuters, A
26: 0888
Double features
26: 0184
Dulles, John Foster
articles on 34: 0001, 0610
Dunne, Irene
29: 0722
Economics Research, National Bureau of
study of movies by 2: 0775
Economic Warfare, Board of
abolition of 32: 0308
Education r
films 11: 0679; 12: 1026; 32: 0315
motion picture curriculum 16: 0960
movies and 7: 0285; 23: 0001, 0341, 0496;
33: 0460
movies in 34: 0517
religious•use of motion pictures 3: 0799
talkies and 4: 0135
Educational Pictures
terminates membership in MPPDA 6: 0367
Elections
1940 27: 0001, 0135
1944 34: 0390, 0689
see also Presidential campaigns; Willkie,
Wendell L
Emotion
motion pictures and 1: 0167
Episcopal Committee, National
on motion pictures, 1,2: 0525
Eternal Road, The
17: 0600
Europe
film situation 1: 0684; 2: 0259; 22: 0001;
23: 0001, 0496
Hays's travels 4: 0644; 17: 0169
movies in 33: 1042; 34: 0871
speeches by Hays in 4: 0644
see also individual country
Exhibition, movie
6: 1010; 8: 0744
Exports, film
to Czechoslovakia 14: 0001
to Great Britain 35: 0626
to Holland 24: 0260
to Italy 24: 0420
to Latin America 31: 0931
Fairbanks, Douglas
speech 21: 0786
Family
children and motion pictures 9: 0702, 0833
motion pictures and 20: 1071
FBI
movies and 14: 0615
Federal Council of Churches of Christ
on movie problem 12: 0001
resolution on movies 13: 0878
see also Churches; Religion
Fidler, Jimmie
radio broadcasts by 32: 0462
Film boards of trade
general 1: 0475
Warner Bros, and 2: 0259
Film libraries
for schools 14: 1088
Film quotas
French films and 1: 0684
in Great Britain 20: 0256
Foreign policy
defense and 25: 0698
Fox, William
1: 0588
see also Fox Film Corporation
69
Fox Film Corporation
1: 0306; 6: 0831
France
films and quotas 1: 0684
trade with Hollywood 12: 0001
see also Europe
Gable, Clark
victory rallies and 30: 0001
Gannett
New York newspaper proposal by 5: 0334
Georgia
block booking legislation in 28: 0105
Germany
talkies in 4: 0865
see also Europe
GFWC
movies and 1: 0827; 3: 0499; 6: 0001; 27: 0971
Goldwyn, Samuel
18: 1007
Gone With the Wind
24: 0107, 0260
Great Britain
actors, in Hollywood 20: 0256
agreement in film imports 24: 0001
Board of Censors 17: 0274
film agreement for 27: 0734
film industry in 21: 0576; 30: 0976; 31: 0368
films in 20: 0256; 33: 0093
film situation in 18: 0001
film trade 17: 0274; 18: 0637, 0772, 0892;
19: 0001, 0816; 20: 0113, 0194; 26: 1146;
27: 0001, 0135, 0395, 0620, 0830, 0971,
1058, 1172; 33: 0263, 0460, 0650
movie exports to 35: 0626
quotas on films 20: 0256
talkies in 1: 0405
see also Europe
Grew, Joseph
address 35: 0001
Hart, William S.
letter from 34: 0689
Hawkes, Albert
Hollywood studio tour for 32: 0445
Hayes, Cardinal Patrick Joseph
movies and 4: 1074
Hays, Will
in California 32: 0315
contract with Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. 29: 0913
death, false reports of 28: 0708
delegate to 1940 Republican National
Convention 25: 0297
illness 28: 0463, 0547
interviews 11: 0265; 12: 0694; 30: 0476
leaves hospital 28: 0708
as MPPDA head 7: 0001
movie season review by 16: 0750
radio address 15: 0157
remarks at Walt Disney testimonial dinner
17: 0444
resignation from MPPDA 35: 0764
return from California 30: 0311; 32: 0449
Roosevelt, Franklin D., death 35: 0123
Roosevelt, Franklin D., meetings 21: 0156;
28: 0001
speeches by 3: 0001, 0993, 1102; 4: 0001,
0644; 8: 1097; 10: 1109; 11: 0001; 16: 0264;
18: 0342, 0772; 19: 1097; 20: 0256, 0919;
21: 0916; 22: 0056; 23: 0341, 0496;
26: 0778; 27: 0135, 0830; 34: 0517; 35: 0123
survey of first ten years as MPPDA head 7: 0001
travels in Europe 4: 0644
travels to Hollywood 23: 0682
travels to Los Angeles 26: 0184
vacation in Sullivan, Indiana 28: 0820
Hays Office
in foreign affairs 33: 0674, 1042
Hays Office, The
35: 0626, 0764
Hearst, William Randolph
on film censorship 5: 0001
general 13: 0175
letters from 17: 0169
memo to 5: 0907
Herald Tribune
Forum on Current Problems 21: 0916
Hitler's Children
34: 0119
HoUand
film export to 24: 0260
United Artists trouble 23: 0785
see also Europe
Hollywood, California
labor relations 30: 0125
meetings 14: 0964; 16: 0001; 21: 0387
pay freeze 31: 0368
Presbyterians and 14: 0841
reports from 3: 0086; 6: 0831; 22: 0149;
31: 0268; 32: 0187
salaries 9: 0001
trips•Hays's 1: 0167; 6: 0655, 1136; 8: 0390;
13: 0952; 16: 0610; 20: 0001
unions and 8: 0001; 26: 0184; 34: 0610
unions in 2: 0001; 18: 0637; 24: 0107;
33: 0935; 34: 0119
wages 1: 0167
World War II and 28: 1007
Hoover, Herbert
address 35: 0123
letters to 1: 0475; 2: 0259
memo of meeting with 2: 0397
note from 4: 0865
presidential campaign of 8: 0140, 0550
70
Kentucky
censorship 6: 0831
Kenyon, Doris
15: 0475
Kinograms newsreels
6: 0655
Labor
movies and 5: 1071
relations in Hollywood 30: 0125
Laemmle, Carl
Universal Pictures and 10: 0373
Landon, Alfred M.
16: 0437
Latin America
film export to 31: 0931
movies and 28: 0547; 30: 0765
movies in 34: 0517; 35: 0764
Laws, movie
state legislatures and 29: 0001
Lawsuits
motion picture industry and antitrust suits
2: 0397, 0639
Legislation, federal
block booking 20: 0448
film censorship and 15: 0761
general 2: 0987
Legislation, state
against movies 1: 0306
movies and 5: 0907
Legislatures, state
movie laws and 29: 0001
movies and 5: 0788
Lend-lease luncheon
31: 0730
Let 'Em Have It
14: 0452
Literature
motion pictures and 24: 0624
Loewy, Raymond
26: 1146
Lombard, Carole
Civil Aeronautics board accident report
regarding 30: 0976
death 30: 0001
London, England
report on American films in 20: 0919
see also Great Britain
Los Angeles, California
Hays's travels to 26: 0184
Luce, Clare Boothe
congressional campaign 34: 0119
speech 26: 1003
McCutcheon, John
tribute to 27: 0830
House of Representatives, U.S.
see U.S. House of Representatives
Imports, film
agreement with Great Britain 24: 0001
Indiana
political highlights 25: 0297
political scene 25: 0532
Indianapolis, Indiana
war bond rally 29: 1079
Indiana Society dinner
29: 0722, 0913
Insurance, fire
movies and 15: 0327
International Federation of Catholic
Alumnae
13: 0366
see also headings under Catholic
Interviews
Hays, Will 11: 0265; 12: 0694; 30: 0476
Italy
film export to 24: 0420
film situation 17: 0444
film trade 18: 0494, 0637, 0892, 1007;
19: 0645; 20: 0600; 21: 0576; 22: 0373,
0549; 23: 0678; 24: 0107
meeting on movies 17: 0169
see also Europe
It Can't Happen Here
15: 0475
James, Will
synopsis of short stories by 23: 0682
JO
movie industry investigation 16: 0001, 0152,
0960, 1101; 17: 0001
Jimmy Steps Out
34: 0230
Johnston, Eric
replacement of Will Hays by 34: 0871;
35: 0626
speech by 34: 0689
Jones, Jesse H.
address by 32: 0756
Kennedy, John F.
awarded Navy and Marine Corps Medal
33: 0674
Kennedy, Joseph P., Jr.
death 33: 1186
Kennedy, Joseph P., Sr.
address 33: 0674
cables 27: 0001
contract with Hays 29: 0913
press statement 27: 0135
speech 33: 0666
World War II and 30: 0125
71
Man Who Reclaimed His Head, The
14: 0001
Mission to Moscow
31: 1075
Moley, Raymond
35: 0626
Morals
movies and 2: 0397; 4: 0738; 8: 0264
Motion Picture
3: 0317
Motion Picture Bureau
13: 0366
Motion Picture Committee Cooperating for
National Defense
28: 0323
Motion Picture Council, Federal
11: 0001
Motion Picture Exhibitors, Allied States
Association of
4: 0289
Motion Picture Herald
31: 0104; 32: 0187
Motion picture industry
antitrust actions by government 23: '0785
antitrust suits 2: 0397, 0639
Australia and 31: 0539
Catholic church and 14: 0452
federal legislation and 1: 0827
history 16: 0610; 23: 0785
House of Representatives investigation
18: 0494
JD investigation 16: 0001, 0152, 0960, 1101;
17: 0001
legislation 1: 0827
National Recovery Act and 9: 0702, 0934
NRA and 10: 0541
PR 10: 0814
problems 30: 0125
relief for unemployed 6: 0156
state legislation against 5: 0471, 0580
taxes 8: 0744
unemployment relief 6: 0156
unions 1: 0946
World War II and 29: 0407
see also Business; individual titles of motion
pictures
Motion Picture Producers, Association of
see AMPP
Motion Picture Research Council
11: 0365
Motion pictures
children and 9: 0702, 0833
the church and 1: 0827; 8: 1097; 32: 0922,
1053
distribution 23: 0001
emotion and 1: 0167
family and 20: 1071
fiftieth anniversary 33: 0263, 0460, 1042
fiftieth anniversary•commemorative stamp
34: 0390
financing 20: 1071
legislation against 1: 0306
in 1939 24: 0260
overseas 35: 0001
in peace and war 35: 0123
popularity 33: 1186
production 23: 0001
science and 1: 0588
worldwide 31: 0931
see also Talkies; individual titles
Movies
see Motion Pictures; Talkies; individual titles
Movies at War
31: 0539
MPPDA
activities 30: 0311
annual reports 9: 0001; 14: 0749; 15: 0761;
18: 0494; 20: 0600; 22: 0791; 24: 0736;
28: 0105; 33: 0263
budgets 1: 0475; 2: 0001; 3: 0499; 4: 0738;
5: 1071; 6: 0001, 0254; 8: 0550
certificate of incorporation and bylaws
28: 0105
educational activities 4: 0001
Educational Pictures•resigns from 6: 0367
Federal Council of Churches and 5: 1046
fifteenth anniversary of 17: 0978; 18: 0169,
0342
financial problems 8: 0140
Hays resigns 35: 0764
Johnston, Eric, as head 35: 0626
membership 3: 0499; 5: 0001; 8: 0963;
10: 0541; 13: 0952; 14: 0749
membership criteria 19: 0816
organization 34: 0871
PR 12: 0877; 32: 0001
PR problems 6: 0493
quarterly report 28: 0820
reorganization 30: 0121, 0125; 31: 0104;
32: 0449
review of 1937-1938 movie season 19: 0251
selected motion pictures suggested by
15: 0998
tenth annual report 7: 0285
twentieth anniversary 30: 0311
twenty-first anniversary 31: 0730
after World War II 35: 0367
MPTOA
3: 0086; 7: 0833; 10: 0183; 11: 0290; 17: 0978
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
23: 0936
Music
motion pictures and 24: 1079; 25: 0001
Mutual Radio
broadcast 29: 1079
National Bureau of Economic Research
2: 0775
National Council of Women
Cinematographic Committee Report 11: 0365
National Defense, Motion Picture Committee
Cooperating for
28: 0323
National Labor Relations Act
24: 1079
National Recovery Act
motion picture industry and 9: 0702, 0934
Netherlands
see Holland
New Jersey
censorship legislation 1: 0001
New Mexico
film-related legislation 28: 0323
Newspapers
movie coverage 19: 1097
movies and 14: 0452; 15: 0475
Republican party and 32: 0462
Newsreels
constitutionality of censorship 22: 0149
general 8: 0390; 25: 1057; 26: 0512; 28: 0463;
34: 0119
Kinograms 6: 0655
New York Herald Tribune
forum on current problems 21: 0916
New York state
censorship 9: 0170; 22: 0989
Afo Greater Sin
29: 0001
North Carolina
film matter 32: 0001
legislation on movies 33: 0001
NRA
movie industry and 10: 0541
movies and 9: 0984; 10: 0001, 0373, 0541,
0657; 11: 0504; 15: 0998
Ohio
admissions tax 11: 0290
One World
32: 0449
Opinion, public
movies and 9: 0833; 16: 0437
Opinion Research Corporation
political outlook for 1940 25: 0151
Opposition party
role in American democracy 29: 0722
Paramount Pictures, V.S. v.
antitrust case 23: 0682; 24: 0624; 25: 0151
Pay freeze
in Hollywood 31: 0368
Payne Foundation
movie study of 9: 0549
PCA
22: 0373; 26: 0295, 0414, 0512, 0778;
27: 0830; 28: 0323, 0820; 30: 0476;
31: 0368; 32: 0315, 0922
Peace, world
movies and 3: 0673
Pius XI
encyclical letter on motion pictures 19: 0816
Political outlook
1940 25: 0151
Poll, motion picture preference
7: 0168, 0630, 1001
Polly of the Circus
6: 0655
PR
movie 21: 0786, 0916; 30: 0976; 31: 0253
for movie industry 10: 0814
MPPDA 32: 0001
Presbyterian church
movies and 8: 0264
report on movies and morals 13: 0677
see also Churches; Religion
Presbyterians
Hollywood and 14: 0841
movies and 14: 0001
see also Churches; Religion
Presidential campaigns
Bricker, John W. 25: 0001
1944 34: 0230
Republican 26: 1003
Willkie, Wendell L 26: 0624, 0778, 0888, 1003,
1146; 27: 1058; 28: 0001
Press summaries
1938 21: 1041; 22: 0001
1939 23: 0785, 0936, 1116; 24: 0001, 0107
1940 24: 0260, 0420, 0624, 0736, 0928;
25: 0001, 0151, 0297, 0407, 0532, 0698,
0876, 1057; 26: 0001, 0184, 0295, 0414,
0512, 0624, 0778, 0888, 1003, 1146;
27: 0001, 0395, 0620, 0734, 0830
1941 27: 0971, 1058, 1172; 28: 0001, 0105,
0323, 0463, 0547, 0708, 0820; 29: 0127,
0269, 0407, 0602, 0722
1942 30: 0001, 0125, 0311, 0476, 0650, 0765,
0976; 31: 0104, 0268, 0368
1943 31: 0539, 0730, 0931, 1075; 32: 0001,
0187, 0315, 0462
1944 33: 0093, 0460, 1042, 1186
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Production code
agreement in operation 3: 0799
general 3: 1102; 4: 0001, 0289, 0738; 5: 0334;
11: 1004; 12: 1026; 27: 1172
publicity for the 13: 0175
see also PCA
Propaganda, movie
general 26: 0512; 27: 1058; 29: 0127; 30: 0971
U.S. Senate investigates 29: 0001, 0127, 0269,
0407
Zanuck, Darryl F. 28: 1007
Public Enemy, The
5: 0580
Publicity
movie 13: 0523
see also Advertising; PR
Public opinion
see Opinion, public
Quo Vadis
32: 0001
Radio
stations and movies 6: 0254
Railroads
speech 27: 0734
Randolph, Jennings
Hollywood Studio tour for 32: 0445
Rank, J. Arthur
special meetings with 35: 0367, 0511
RCA Corp.
sound equipment 7: 0526
Release agreements
standards 4: 0865
Religion
movies and 12: 0146, 0346
religious education and movies 3: 0799
see also Churches; headings under Catholic;
headings under Presbyterian
Remember Pearl Harbor
31: 0001
Republican National Club
6: 0001
Republican National Convention (1920)
history 31: 0001
Republican party
general 8: 0264; 25: 0297; 31: 1075
national convention 7: 0630, 1001; 25: 0532,
0698, 0876, 1057; 26: 0001
newspapers and 32: 0462
politics 8: 0001; 16: 0960; 19: 0251, 0423,
0645, 0908, 1097; 22: 0056; 24: 0928;
27: 0620, 0734; 29: 0602
reports 20: 0113
see also Opposition party; RNC
Research, electronic
34: 0230
RKO Pictures
problems 6: 0655
RNC
7: 0833; 11: 0265; 15: 0638; 25: 0407;
26: 0512, 0888
Robe, The
31: 0368
Rogers, Will
general 9: 0984; 23: 1116
Memorial 17: 0768
Memorial Program 15: 0327
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
death of, statement by Hays 35: 0123
meeting with film industry executives 21: 0156
meeting with Hays 28: 0001
Roosevelt, Theodore
twenty-fifth anniversary of death of 32: 1055
Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of the
Modem Navy
31: 0929
Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association
26: 0778; 29: 0407, 0722; 30: 0976; 31: 0001,
0730, 1075; 34: 0230
Science
movies and 1: 0588
Screen Actors Guild
29: 0913
Senate, U.S.
see U.S. Senate
Short subjects
movie code 14: 0615
Smith, Courtland
biography 27: 0395
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
19: 1097
Society
films and 34: 0689
Soldiers, U.S.
films and 34: 0230
see also Armed forces
South America
movies in 33: 0935
Stamp, commemorative
fiftieth anniversary of film 34: 0390
Standard Release Print Agreement
4: 0865
Study guides
motion picture 15: 0157
Surgery
movies and 5: 0001
Talkies
education and 4: 0135
export 1: 0684
general 1: 1001; 2: 0397, 0639; 7: 0526
in Germany 4: 0865
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in Great Britain 1: 0405
Warner Bros, and 5: 0144
Taylor, Henry J.
address by 32: 0462
Texas
state politics 32: 0445
Thalberg, Irving
death 16: 0862
Theatre owners, movie
chamber of commerce 18: 0169
Themes, film
22: 0149
Three Little Words
29: 0127
TOA
17: 0978
Trade, international
movies and 3: 0673; 17: 0768
see also Exports, film; Imports, film
Trade papers, movie
report 18: 0342
Transportation
speech on policy 27: 0734
Transportation Association of America
27: 0971
Uncle Sam Gets His Man
14: 0128, 0749
Unemployment
movie industry and relief for 6: 0156
Unions
actors' equity and 13: 0523
in film business 4: 1074
general 5: 1071
in Hollywood 2: 0183; 18: 0637; 24: 0107;
33: 0935; 34: 0119
Hollywood and 8: 0001; 26: 0184; 34: 0610
movie cameramen and 1: 0475
movies and 1: 0001; 9: 0170
United Artists
trouble in Holland 23: 0785
United Nations
proposal for 33: 0674
speech by Hays on 35: 0123
United States v. Paramount Pictures
antitrust case 23: 0682; 24: 0624; 25: 0151
Universal Pictures
general 8: 0390
Laemmle, Carl and 10: 0373
sale 16: 0750
U.S. Congress
arbitration bill 1: 0405
movies and 9^• 0370
U.S. House of Representatives
bill against block booking 24: 0001
movie industry investigation 18: 0494
U.S. Senate
block booking ban 20: 0811; 21: 0001;
22: 0711, 0989; 23: 0341
investigates movie propaganda 29: 0001, 0127,
0269, 0407
USSR
movies and 32: 0756
Values, social
movies and 5: 0334; 14: 0128
Victory' rallies
Clark Gable and 30: 0001
Wages
in Hollywood 1: 0167
Waldorf-Astoria
fiftieth anniversary 31: 0730
War Activities Committee
31: 0539; 32: 0922; 33: 1042
War bonds
drives 34: 0390
rallies 31: 0104, 0253, 0268, 0539; 32: 0462
sale 30: 0001, 0650; 31: 0268
War effort
movies and 26: 0888; 30: 0650
War Mobilization, Office of
establishment 32: 0308
Warner, Harry M.
2: 0639
Warner Bros.
film boards of trade and 2: 0259
general 2: 0775; 13: 0366
talkies and 5: 0144
Wham, Benjamin
address on transportation policy 27: 0734
White House
notes from 5: 0788
Willkie, Wendell L.
death 34: 0119
general 25: 0001, 0407, 0532, 0698, 0876,
1057; 26: 0001, 0295
presidential campaign (1940) 26: 0624, 0778,
0888, 1003, 1146
presidential campaign analysis 27: 1058;
28: 0001
Wisconsin
state politics 32: 0445
Women's groups
see GFWC; National Council of Women
World War 11
cinema 33: 0093
film industry and 29: 0407; 30: 0125
Hollywood and 28: 1007
Joseph P. Kennedy and 30: 0125
movies about 30: 0765
movies and 30: 0650, 0971; 31: 0730; 32: 0187;
33: 0450, 0674, 1186
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Youth Runs Wild
34: 0001
Zanuck, Darryl F.
film propaganda and 28: 1007
movies' role in 32: 1055
see also headings under War
Youth, American
movies and 20: 0448; 24: 0928
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APPENDIX
Details of the unfilmed material, its extent and condition, and where applicable, restrictions on photocopying, follow. The material is located at the Indiana State Lihrary, and a
description can be found in the Source Note, page xviii.
I. Materials used in the Hays autobiography
A. Rough drafts and notes
May be photocopied; restricted by condition of material, which varies.
Approximately 5'/2 linear inches.
B. Transcriptions of stenographic discs
Used for work on the autobiography.
1.) partial minutes of AMPP and MPPDA meetings, 1922 to 1945, briefly inventoried by Ernest B. Chamberlain.
2.) reminiscences recorded by Hays and thoroughly indexed by Chamberlain.
Approximately I'/i linear inches.
C. Note cards
Index cards (5x8 and 3x5) were used in collecting material for the autobiography. Still in subject order, they are cross-referenced to the now-rearranged
correspondence filing system and to the clippings books. They provid s a valuable
index to the collection. There are approximately 2,500 5x8 cards aid approximately 2,500 3x5 cards. They must be used with caution, and photocopying may
be limited.
D. Index to Hays files, 1919-1944
Arranged by subject with brief summary and citation of the letter or clipping, on
legal sheets which may be photocopied. While not as complete a> the index
cards, this index is easier to use.
Approximately 2 linear inches.
E. "Memoirs of Will H. Hays"
Eighteen volumes, varying in condition, some are final versions of the autobiography, on bond paper, some are second-sheet carbons or onion skin•the latter
categories are harder to photocopy and some restrictions may apply.
Twenty-two and one-half linear inches.
F. Drafts of autobiography
One box of revised and completed drafts ordered by Fred Niblo, pp. 1 -673. May
be photocopied.
Five linear inches.
II. "Chaney Digests" and "Murphy Memos"
The Chaney Digests are transcriptions of printed material about Kays, mainly
newspaper clippings but also pamphlets and correspondence. They were later edited
into Murphy Memos. These items were used extensively in the preparati on of Hays's
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autobiography, although the Chaney Digests were not created for that purpose. The
dates covered are 1920 to 1944; the subjects are Hays and anything affecting Hays.
The series' value lies in its complete outline of Hays's career and its easy-to-use
format. There are no copyright restrictions, but some of the material is flimsy and
photocopying might be restricted.
Forty-five linear inches.
III. Scrapbooks, clippings, books, press comments, and press summaries
Taken together, these books provide coverage of Hays's career from 1915 to 1944.
While the actual format of the books might vary, the content is the same: anything
said (in the print medium) about Hays or his activities was collected and preserved.
A. Green scrapbooks, 1915-1921
These eleven volumes are commercially produced, in good shape, and the pages
measure 91/2" x 12".
Approximately thirty linear inches.
B. Clothbound scrapbooks, 1920-1924
These consist of SV2" x 11" sheets with clippings pasted on them, organized by
subject, and bound. They are roughly chronological, although there is some
overlap. The earliest clippings on Hays's motion picture activities are contained in
these books. Photocopying might be restricted, because the earlier clippings are
brittle and the bindings are tight.
Approximately 315 linear inches.
(Note: the Chaney Digests mentioned in Section II above were drawn from these
scrapbooks. )
C. Scrapbook of the National Convention of Letter Carriers, 1921
About thirty pages of SV2" xll" sheets, with much comment on Hays's
"humanizing the Post Office" campaign, which had a great effect upon his career.
Approximately one-half linear inch.
D. Unbound scrapbook material
1.) Censorship demands of 1934. Some pages are brittle; photocopying might be
restricted.
Approximately two linear inches.
2.) Hays's trip to Italy, 1936, with postcards and memorabilia as well as clippings.
Another scrapbook from a 1938 trip.
Approximately four and two linear inches, respectively.
It should be noted that scrapbooks, while measured in linear inches, might contain
less than half the number of pages of an equal amount of flat paper.
E. Press comment on motion pictures, 1925•1935
Beginning in 1925, there is a change in format: instead of scrapbooks, these press
comment books are S1/»" xll" second sheets containing typewritten transcripts
of newspaper articles. Some of the earlier books also contain clippings, but in the
later books, the clippings were eliminated. The press comment books are uniformly brittle, with tight bindings, and hence difficult to photocopy.
Approximately sixty linear inches.
F. Press summary books, 1935•1944
In 1935, there was another change in the format of the collection of print material:
these books now contain stencil copy on good paper with wide margins.
Approximately fifteen linear inches.
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IV. Movie material
Stenographic minutes of the arbitration between Columbia Pictures, Loews
Paramount, RKO, Twentieth Century-Fox, United Artists, Universal, and Warner Bros.,
involving the remittances from France, 1939 to 1947, in front of arbitrator Will H.
Hays, nineteen volumes, plus correspondence. No copyright restrictions, but photocopying may be limited because the material is flimsy.
Forty-five linear inches.
V. Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad
Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and printed items, 1922 to 1943. Most of the
material has been dated and arranged chronologically.
Forty and one-half linear inches..
VI. Personal material
A. Wabash College, 1909-1953
Hays was a member of the Board of Trustees of Wabash College from 1919-1954, and
the files contain some confidential material which has only recently been released
from copyright restrictions imposed by Hays. There will still be some restrictions on
photocopying.
Thirty linear inches.
B. Phi Delta Theta Papers
Photocopying restricted.
C. Memorabilia
One small box.
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