Oral history interview with Harry Brandt, 1959

Biographical Note

Motion picture exhibitor

Scope and Contents

Store-front movies circa 1915; movie theater advertising: heralds, window cards, publicity stunts; motion picture theaters: interiors, concessions, numbers; competition with studio-owned theater chains; effect of sound on motion picture business; racketeers in movie theater unions about 1931: Louis Lepke, Thomas E. Dewey and Commission on Organized Crime, 1935; censorship and establishment of motion picture code; opinions on different film genres, dislike of double features; distribution of movies from Communist countries; theater owner's court case against major studios. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"

Subjects

• Brandt, Harry, 1897-1972--Interviews.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Motion pictures--Distribution.
• Motion pictures.
• Motion picture theaters.
• Oral histories (literary works)