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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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