Abstract
Exploring the manner in which industry trade practices determined the patterns of local exhibition in the 1920s and 1930s, this article provides a contextual history of Classical Hollywood cinema's most ubiquitous document, the Standard Exhibition Contract, by which the major distributors did business with independent exhibitors.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 138-153 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Film History |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue number | 1-2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
Keywords
- Arbitration
- Chain theaters
- Classical hollywood
- Distribution
- Independent exhibition
- MPPDA
- Standard exhibition contract
- Trade relations