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Advertorial published in Moving Picture World, paid for by First National. Criticizes W.H. Productions and the practice of re-titling old films.

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One of many editorials that appeared in the Screen Writer Guild's magazine, The Screen Writer, about what they called the "reissue problem" -- the over-use of theatrical reissues by studios in the 1940s and the need for labor to receive residual…

MGM_reissues_season_by_season_comparison.xlsx
The Eddie Mannix ledger accounts for reissue revenue within the original season of release. For example, the ledger allocates the $234,000 in domestic rentals that Manhattan Melodrama earned in its 1937 reissue to the revenue and profitability of the…

MGM_reissue_picture_comparison.xlsx
Reissue data on MGM pictures from the Eddie Mannix ledger.

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RKO advertisement for 1938 reissues of King Kong and Little Women. Published in Film Daily.

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Hollywood Vault is the story of how the business of film libraries emerged and evolved, spanning the silent era to the sale of feature libraries to television. Eric Hoyt argues that film libraries became valuable not because of the introduction of…

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In 1944, Variety reported that exhibitors objected to the high rental rates that RKO was charging for the Snow White reissue.
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