Reminiscences of Arthur Loeb Mayer : oral history, 1958.

Biographical Note

Motion picture exhibitor; interviewee d. 1981.

Scope and Contents

Theater management, auditing, advertising, distribution of early movies; Balaban & Katz deluxe movie theaters; transition from Vitaphone to Fox sound systems; foreign film industries; censorship: role of Treasury Department, Motion Picture Association Code, changing moral standards; impressions of Samuel Goldwyn.

Subjects

• Executives--Interviews.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Mayer, Arthur, 1886-1981.
• Motion pictures--Censorship.
• Motion pictures--Distribution.
• Oral histories.
• Theater management.

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