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Article from Variety explaining that market conditions in 1939 were prompting exhibitors to play more reissues and revivals.

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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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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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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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William S. Hart was one of the biggest movie stars in the world from the mid-1910s to the early-1920s.

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First issue of The Triangle, the house organ of the Triangle Film Corporation. Triangle's founder, Harry Aitken, is profiled on the cover.
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