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…
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…