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

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Advertisement for reissues of William S. Hart and Douglad Fairbanks movies.

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

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This 1919 article from Variety describes the FTC investigation into W.H. Productions, which had acquired the rights to William S. Hart films and reissued them under new titles.

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