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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…

wb_libraryt_tv_reissues_compared.pdf
By the mid-1950s, the revenue available from selling old films to television surpassed far surpassed the available revenue from reissuing old films theatrically. This table compares the Warner Bros. film library's TV earnings to reissue earnings.

WB_Reissues_1935-1942.xlsx

RKO_Reissues_1935-1951.xlsx
Rental revenue and profitability for reissued RKO pictures. Data compares rental revenue to the picture's original release.

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

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…

screenwriter_1947.pdf
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…

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Perspective of independent East Coast exhibitors on the pending RKO library deal.
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