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Arthur Hornblow, Jr., came to work for Goldwyn. Goldwyn persisted in calling him "Hornbloom." Homblow corrected him several times throughout the first few months of their association. THE HOLLYWOOD RENEGADES ARCHIVE About the Archive. A Note from the Editor: The 336 page version of Hollywood Renegades: The Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers by J. A. Aberdeen published in 2000 is the story of SIMPP how an elite group of independent producers triumphed over the studio system.. The author collected unpublished material featuring independent profiles of the founders of SIMPP showing each of the THE LOT: A LEGENDARY STUDIO OF INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION IN The History of the United Artists Lot (also known as the Samuel Goldwyn Studio) by J. A. Aberdeen. 1041 North Formosa Avenue. Hollywood, California. When United Artists was formed in 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford , Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith, the founders never intended the company to be like a regularHollywood studio.
W. W. HODKINSON: THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE MOVIE BUSINESS The Hodkinson System Revolutionizes the Film Industry. by J. A. Aberdeen. W. W. Hodkinson - movie industry pioneer, founder of Paramount Pictures - portrait from around 1920, while he was operating the W. W. Hodkinson Corporation as a producer-distributor. I have called William Wadsworth Hodkinson, "the Man Who Invented Hollywood"knowing that
BLOCK BOOKING: "THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL IN THE MOTION PICTURE As with any controversy, block booking was a two-sided issue. The Hollywood studios affirmed that block booking was comparable to the concept of wholesaling and WHAT'S IN A NAME: HOLLYWOOD FILM TITLE REGISTRATION The Little-Known Secret of Title Registration in Hollywood. Since 1925, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (commonly known as the Hays Office) maintained the Title Registration Bureau which allowed the member companies the ability to reserve specific film titles, whether or not the company had any intention onmaking a
THE EDISON MOVIE MONOPOLY The Edison Film Manufacturing Company, the Biograph company, and the other Motion Picture Patents members ended their competitive feuding in favor of a cooperative system that provided industry domination. By pooling their interests, the member companies legally monopolized the business, and demanded licensing fees from all film producers GUNTHER LESSING: WALT DISNEY LAWYER Gunther R. Lessing, the chief legal counsel for Walt Disney Productions, assisted the Disney brothers during the early Mickey Mouse days, then rose to become SIMPP chairman and Disney vice-president. . . . THE CONSENT DECREE OF 1940 The Trial Starts, Then Stops. On June 3, 1940, the Paramount case went to trial in Federal Court in New York. Wanting to avoid the unpleasant public scrutiny, the studio heads effected an eleventh-hour negotiation that suspended the trial on June 17 after only two weeks of preliminary hearings. ALEXANDER KORDA: BIOGRAPHY Alexander Korda: Biography. Alexander Korda was born Sandor Kellner September 16, 1893 on a settlement on the outskirts of Turkeve on the Great Hungarian Plain. He was the oldest of three sons in a family of assimilated Jews. As a young boy, Sandor's sight was damaged byGOLDWYNISMS
Arthur Hornblow, Jr., came to work for Goldwyn. Goldwyn persisted in calling him "Hornbloom." Homblow corrected him several times throughout the first few months of their association. THE HOLLYWOOD RENEGADES ARCHIVE About the Archive. A Note from the Editor: The 336 page version of Hollywood Renegades: The Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers by J. A. Aberdeen published in 2000 is the story of SIMPP how an elite group of independent producers triumphed over the studio system.. The author collected unpublished material featuring independent profiles of the founders of SIMPP showing each of the THE LOT: A LEGENDARY STUDIO OF INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION IN The History of the United Artists Lot (also known as the Samuel Goldwyn Studio) by J. A. Aberdeen. 1041 North Formosa Avenue. Hollywood, California. When United Artists was formed in 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford , Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith, the founders never intended the company to be like a regularHollywood studio.
W. W. HODKINSON: THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE MOVIE BUSINESS The Hodkinson System Revolutionizes the Film Industry. by J. A. Aberdeen. W. W. Hodkinson - movie industry pioneer, founder of Paramount Pictures - portrait from around 1920, while he was operating the W. W. Hodkinson Corporation as a producer-distributor. I have called William Wadsworth Hodkinson, "the Man Who Invented Hollywood"knowing that
BLOCK BOOKING: "THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL IN THE MOTION PICTURE As with any controversy, block booking was a two-sided issue. The Hollywood studios affirmed that block booking was comparable to the concept of wholesaling and WHAT'S IN A NAME: HOLLYWOOD FILM TITLE REGISTRATION The Little-Known Secret of Title Registration in Hollywood. Since 1925, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (commonly known as the Hays Office) maintained the Title Registration Bureau which allowed the member companies the ability to reserve specific film titles, whether or not the company had any intention onmaking a
THE EDISON MOVIE MONOPOLY The Edison Film Manufacturing Company, the Biograph company, and the other Motion Picture Patents members ended their competitive feuding in favor of a cooperative system that provided industry domination. By pooling their interests, the member companies legally monopolized the business, and demanded licensing fees from all film producers GUNTHER LESSING: WALT DISNEY LAWYER Gunther R. Lessing, the chief legal counsel for Walt Disney Productions, assisted the Disney brothers during the early Mickey Mouse days, then rose to become SIMPP chairman and Disney vice-president. . . . THE CONSENT DECREE OF 1940 The Trial Starts, Then Stops. On June 3, 1940, the Paramount case went to trial in Federal Court in New York. Wanting to avoid the unpleasant public scrutiny, the studio heads effected an eleventh-hour negotiation that suspended the trial on June 17 after only two weeks of preliminary hearings. ALEXANDER KORDA: BIOGRAPHY Alexander Korda: Biography. Alexander Korda was born Sandor Kellner September 16, 1893 on a settlement on the outskirts of Turkeve on the Great Hungarian Plain. He was the oldest of three sons in a family of assimilated Jews. As a young boy, Sandor's sight was damaged by THE HOLLYWOOD RENEGADES ARCHIVE About the Archive. A Note from the Editor: The 336 page version of Hollywood Renegades: The Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers by J. A. Aberdeen published in 2000 is the story of SIMPP how an elite group of independent producers triumphed over the studio system.. The author collected unpublished material featuring independent profiles of the founders of SIMPP showing each of the BLOCK BOOKING BATTLE In May 1935, two block booking bills made their way to the United States Congress. Senator Matthew M. Neely of West Virginia proposed the Anti-Block Booking and Blind Selling Bill on May 13, 1935 for hearings in early 1936. THE FORMATION OF SIMPP The Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers had its origins in the great antitrust battle between the U.S. government and the large Hollywood studios which enveloped the industry in the late 1930s (see the Paramount case).Though most of the independent producers distributed their films through the Big Eight studios, the independents opposed the studio monopolies, and joined the side of WHAT IS SIMPP? FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE SIMPP FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) What Is SIMPP? SIMPP stands for the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers — an organization that was formed by Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney, Samuel Goldwyn, Alexander Korda, Mary Pickford, David O. Selznick, Walter Wanger, and Orson Welles. THE EDISON MOVIE MONOPOLY The Edison Film Manufacturing Company, the Biograph company, and the other Motion Picture Patents members ended their competitive feuding in favor of a cooperative system that provided industry domination. By pooling their interests, the member companies legally monopolized the business, and demanded licensing fees from all film producers THE MOTION PICTURE ALLIANCE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF The Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals. The Motion Picture Alliance was formed in the early 1940s by some of Hollywood's high-profile conservatives including director Sam Wood, Walt Disney, and Leo McCarey.When the House Un-American Activities Committee investigated the motion picture industry, the "friendly witnesses" came largely from the Alliance. INTERNATIONAL PICTURES AND THE MERGER WITH UNIVERSAL PICTURES The record company took control of Universal, and ousted Goetz and Spitz as the company headed toward conglomeration. The relatively short careers of Liberty and International Pictures in the mid-1940s made the fleeting stability of independent producers appear even more bleak. The major studio, it seemed, was the unavoidable destination of SOL LESSER - INDEPENDENT PRODUCER Sol Lesser. Sol Lesser - independent filmmaker who at various times in his career served as indy producer, distributor, and exhibitor. One of the three new additions to SIMPP in 1942 was industry pioneer Sol Lesser whose experience in all three branches of the film industry made him a unique SIMPP member. At the age of 17, Lesser inherited his THE STUDIOS PLAN FOR THE ANTIRUST BATTLE, 1939 The Justice Department Files Suit Against the Hollywood Majors. By the time the Paramount suit was announced on July 20, 1938, the major studios had already spent time fortifying. The Paramount suit was not a surprise to Hollywood; and the studios made sure they were prepared for the Roosevelt administration's anti-monopoly case. ALEXANDER KORDA: BIOGRAPHY Alexander Korda: Biography. Alexander Korda was born Sandor Kellner September 16, 1893 on a settlement on the outskirts of Turkeve on the Great Hungarian Plain. He was the oldest of three sons in a family of assimilated Jews. As a young boy, Sandor's sight was damaged byGOLDWYNISMS
Arthur Hornblow, Jr., came to work for Goldwyn. Goldwyn persisted in calling him "Hornbloom." Homblow corrected him several times throughout the first few months of their association. THE HOLLYWOOD RENEGADES ARCHIVE About the Archive. A Note from the Editor: The 336 page version of Hollywood Renegades: The Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers by J. A. Aberdeen published in 2000 is the story of SIMPP how an elite group of independent producers triumphed over the studio system.. The author collected unpublished material featuring independent profiles of the founders of SIMPP showing each of the THE LOT: A LEGENDARY STUDIO OF INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION IN The History of the United Artists Lot (also known as the Samuel Goldwyn Studio) by J. A. Aberdeen. 1041 North Formosa Avenue. Hollywood, California. When United Artists was formed in 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford , Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith, the founders never intended the company to be like a regularHollywood studio.
W. W. HODKINSON: THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE MOVIE BUSINESS The Hodkinson System Revolutionizes the Film Industry. by J. A. Aberdeen. W. W. Hodkinson - movie industry pioneer, founder of Paramount Pictures - portrait from around 1920, while he was operating the W. W. Hodkinson Corporation as a producer-distributor. I have called William Wadsworth Hodkinson, "the Man Who Invented Hollywood"knowing that
BLOCK BOOKING: "THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL IN THE MOTION PICTURE As with any controversy, block booking was a two-sided issue. The Hollywood studios affirmed that block booking was comparable to the concept of wholesaling and WHAT'S IN A NAME: HOLLYWOOD FILM TITLE REGISTRATION The Little-Known Secret of Title Registration in Hollywood. Since 1925, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (commonly known as the Hays Office) maintained the Title Registration Bureau which allowed the member companies the ability to reserve specific film titles, whether or not the company had any intention onmaking a
THE EDISON MOVIE MONOPOLY The Edison Film Manufacturing Company, the Biograph company, and the other Motion Picture Patents members ended their competitive feuding in favor of a cooperative system that provided industry domination. By pooling their interests, the member companies legally monopolized the business, and demanded licensing fees from all film producers GUNTHER LESSING: WALT DISNEY LAWYER Gunther R. Lessing, the chief legal counsel for Walt Disney Productions, assisted the Disney brothers during the early Mickey Mouse days, then rose to become SIMPP chairman and Disney vice-president. . . . THE CONSENT DECREE OF 1940 The Trial Starts, Then Stops. On June 3, 1940, the Paramount case went to trial in Federal Court in New York. Wanting to avoid the unpleasant public scrutiny, the studio heads effected an eleventh-hour negotiation that suspended the trial on June 17 after only two weeks of preliminary hearings. ALEXANDER KORDA: BIOGRAPHY Alexander Korda: Biography. Alexander Korda was born Sandor Kellner September 16, 1893 on a settlement on the outskirts of Turkeve on the Great Hungarian Plain. He was the oldest of three sons in a family of assimilated Jews. As a young boy, Sandor's sight was damaged byGOLDWYNISMS
Arthur Hornblow, Jr., came to work for Goldwyn. Goldwyn persisted in calling him "Hornbloom." Homblow corrected him several times throughout the first few months of their association. THE HOLLYWOOD RENEGADES ARCHIVE About the Archive. A Note from the Editor: The 336 page version of Hollywood Renegades: The Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers by J. A. Aberdeen published in 2000 is the story of SIMPP how an elite group of independent producers triumphed over the studio system.. The author collected unpublished material featuring independent profiles of the founders of SIMPP showing each of the THE LOT: A LEGENDARY STUDIO OF INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION IN The History of the United Artists Lot (also known as the Samuel Goldwyn Studio) by J. A. Aberdeen. 1041 North Formosa Avenue. Hollywood, California. When United Artists was formed in 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford , Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith, the founders never intended the company to be like a regularHollywood studio.
W. W. HODKINSON: THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE MOVIE BUSINESS The Hodkinson System Revolutionizes the Film Industry. by J. A. Aberdeen. W. W. Hodkinson - movie industry pioneer, founder of Paramount Pictures - portrait from around 1920, while he was operating the W. W. Hodkinson Corporation as a producer-distributor. I have called William Wadsworth Hodkinson, "the Man Who Invented Hollywood"knowing that
BLOCK BOOKING: "THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL IN THE MOTION PICTURE As with any controversy, block booking was a two-sided issue. The Hollywood studios affirmed that block booking was comparable to the concept of wholesaling and WHAT'S IN A NAME: HOLLYWOOD FILM TITLE REGISTRATION The Little-Known Secret of Title Registration in Hollywood. Since 1925, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (commonly known as the Hays Office) maintained the Title Registration Bureau which allowed the member companies the ability to reserve specific film titles, whether or not the company had any intention onmaking a
THE EDISON MOVIE MONOPOLY The Edison Film Manufacturing Company, the Biograph company, and the other Motion Picture Patents members ended their competitive feuding in favor of a cooperative system that provided industry domination. By pooling their interests, the member companies legally monopolized the business, and demanded licensing fees from all film producers GUNTHER LESSING: WALT DISNEY LAWYER Gunther R. Lessing, the chief legal counsel for Walt Disney Productions, assisted the Disney brothers during the early Mickey Mouse days, then rose to become SIMPP chairman and Disney vice-president. . . . THE CONSENT DECREE OF 1940 The Trial Starts, Then Stops. On June 3, 1940, the Paramount case went to trial in Federal Court in New York. Wanting to avoid the unpleasant public scrutiny, the studio heads effected an eleventh-hour negotiation that suspended the trial on June 17 after only two weeks of preliminary hearings. ALEXANDER KORDA: BIOGRAPHY Alexander Korda: Biography. Alexander Korda was born Sandor Kellner September 16, 1893 on a settlement on the outskirts of Turkeve on the Great Hungarian Plain. He was the oldest of three sons in a family of assimilated Jews. As a young boy, Sandor's sight was damaged by THE HOLLYWOOD RENEGADES ARCHIVE About the Archive. A Note from the Editor: The 336 page version of Hollywood Renegades: The Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers by J. A. Aberdeen published in 2000 is the story of SIMPP how an elite group of independent producers triumphed over the studio system.. The author collected unpublished material featuring independent profiles of the founders of SIMPP showing each of the BLOCK BOOKING BATTLE In May 1935, two block booking bills made their way to the United States Congress. Senator Matthew M. Neely of West Virginia proposed the Anti-Block Booking and Blind Selling Bill on May 13, 1935 for hearings in early 1936. THE FORMATION OF SIMPP The Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers had its origins in the great antitrust battle between the U.S. government and the large Hollywood studios which enveloped the industry in the late 1930s (see the Paramount case).Though most of the independent producers distributed their films through the Big Eight studios, the independents opposed the studio monopolies, and joined the side of WHAT IS SIMPP? FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE SIMPP FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) What Is SIMPP? SIMPP stands for the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers — an organization that was formed by Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney, Samuel Goldwyn, Alexander Korda, Mary Pickford, David O. Selznick, Walter Wanger, and Orson Welles. THE EDISON MOVIE MONOPOLY The Edison Film Manufacturing Company, the Biograph company, and the other Motion Picture Patents members ended their competitive feuding in favor of a cooperative system that provided industry domination. By pooling their interests, the member companies legally monopolized the business, and demanded licensing fees from all film producers THE MOTION PICTURE ALLIANCE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF The Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals. The Motion Picture Alliance was formed in the early 1940s by some of Hollywood's high-profile conservatives including director Sam Wood, Walt Disney, and Leo McCarey.When the House Un-American Activities Committee investigated the motion picture industry, the "friendly witnesses" came largely from the Alliance. INTERNATIONAL PICTURES AND THE MERGER WITH UNIVERSAL PICTURES The record company took control of Universal, and ousted Goetz and Spitz as the company headed toward conglomeration. The relatively short careers of Liberty and International Pictures in the mid-1940s made the fleeting stability of independent producers appear even more bleak. The major studio, it seemed, was the unavoidable destination of SOL LESSER - INDEPENDENT PRODUCER Sol Lesser. Sol Lesser - independent filmmaker who at various times in his career served as indy producer, distributor, and exhibitor. One of the three new additions to SIMPP in 1942 was industry pioneer Sol Lesser whose experience in all three branches of the film industry made him a unique SIMPP member. At the age of 17, Lesser inherited his THE STUDIOS PLAN FOR THE ANTIRUST BATTLE, 1939 The Justice Department Files Suit Against the Hollywood Majors. By the time the Paramount suit was announced on July 20, 1938, the major studios had already spent time fortifying. The Paramount suit was not a surprise to Hollywood; and the studios made sure they were prepared for the Roosevelt administration's anti-monopoly case. ALEXANDER KORDA: BIOGRAPHY Alexander Korda: Biography. Alexander Korda was born Sandor Kellner September 16, 1893 on a settlement on the outskirts of Turkeve on the Great Hungarian Plain. He was the oldest of three sons in a family of assimilated Jews. As a young boy, Sandor's sight was damaged byGOLDWYNISMS
Arthur Hornblow, Jr., came to work for Goldwyn. Goldwyn persisted in calling him "Hornbloom." Homblow corrected him several times throughout the first few months of their association. THE HOLLYWOOD RENEGADES ARCHIVE About the Archive. A Note from the Editor: The 336 page version of Hollywood Renegades: The Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers by J. A. Aberdeen published in 2000 is the story of SIMPP how an elite group of independent producers triumphed over the studio system.. The author collected unpublished material featuring independent profiles of the founders of SIMPP showing each of the WHAT'S IN A NAME: HOLLYWOOD FILM TITLE REGISTRATION The Little-Known Secret of Title Registration in Hollywood. Since 1925, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (commonly known as the Hays Office) maintained the Title Registration Bureau which allowed the member companies the ability to reserve specific film titles, whether or not the company had any intention onmaking a
W. W. HODKINSON: THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE MOVIE BUSINESS The Hodkinson System Revolutionizes the Film Industry. by J. A. Aberdeen. W. W. Hodkinson - movie industry pioneer, founder of Paramount Pictures - portrait from around 1920, while he was operating the W. W. Hodkinson Corporation as a producer-distributor. I have called William Wadsworth Hodkinson, "the Man Who Invented Hollywood"knowing that
BLOCK BOOKING: "THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL IN THE MOTION PICTURE As with any controversy, block booking was a two-sided issue. The Hollywood studios affirmed that block booking was comparable to the concept of wholesaling and THE LOT: A LEGENDARY STUDIO OF INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION IN The History of the United Artists Lot (also known as the Samuel Goldwyn Studio) by J. A. Aberdeen. 1041 North Formosa Avenue. Hollywood, California. When United Artists was formed in 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford , Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith, the founders never intended the company to be like a regularHollywood studio.
GUNTHER LESSING: WALT DISNEY LAWYER Gunther R. Lessing, the chief legal counsel for Walt Disney Productions, assisted the Disney brothers during the early Mickey Mouse days, then rose to become SIMPP chairman and Disney vice-president. . . . THE SUPREME COURT VERDICT THAT BROUGHT AN END TO THE The Supreme Court Trial. When the Paramount case made it to Supreme Court trial on February 9, 1948 it had bee nearly a full year after the government appealed the Statutory Court ruling.. Attorney General Tom C. Clark opened the government arguments, confident that the wealth of information would prove that divorcement was necessary to end studio domination of the motion picture industry. THE CONSENT DECREE OF 1940 The Trial Starts, Then Stops. On June 3, 1940, the Paramount case went to trial in Federal Court in New York. Wanting to avoid the unpleasant public scrutiny, the studio heads effected an eleventh-hour negotiation that suspended the trial on June 17 after only two weeks of preliminary hearings. 50 YEARS: SAG REMEMBERS THE BLACKLIST Note: At this time, only a text version of this special publication on the blacklist is available here online. For information on obtaining the full-color magazine edition and/or to subscribe to the Screen Actor, please contact Greg Krizman, SAG National Publications Editor,at (213) 549-6652.
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Arthur Hornblow, Jr., came to work for Goldwyn. Goldwyn persisted in calling him "Hornbloom." Homblow corrected him several times throughout the first few months of their association. THE HOLLYWOOD RENEGADES ARCHIVE About the Archive. A Note from the Editor: The 336 page version of Hollywood Renegades: The Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers by J. A. Aberdeen published in 2000 is the story of SIMPP how an elite group of independent producers triumphed over the studio system.. The author collected unpublished material featuring independent profiles of the founders of SIMPP showing each of the THE LOT: A LEGENDARY STUDIO OF INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION IN 1041 North Formosa Avenue Hollywood, California. When United Artists was formed in 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith, the founders never intended the company to be like a regular Hollywood studio.It started solely as a distribution company. Its mission was to release films made by independent producers, therefore it had no studio lot. WHAT'S IN A NAME: HOLLYWOOD FILM TITLE REGISTRATION The Little-Known Secret of Title Registration in Hollywood. Since 1925, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (commonly known as the Hays Office) maintained the Title Registration Bureau which allowed the member companies the ability to reserve specific film titles, whether or not the company had any intention onmaking a
BLOCK BOOKING: "THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL IN THE MOTION PICTURE As with any controversy, block booking was a two-sided issue. The Hollywood studios affirmed that block booking was comparable to the concept of wholesaling and GUNTHER LESSING: WALT DISNEY LAWYER Gunther R. Lessing, the chief legal counsel for Walt Disney Productions, assisted the Disney brothers during the early Mickey Mouse days, then rose to become SIMPP chairman and Disney vice-president. . . . W. W. HODKINSON: THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE MOVIE BUSINESS I have called William Wadsworth Hodkinson, "the Man Who Invented Hollywood" knowing that a more correct title would be — the Man Who Invented the Business of Hollywood. Remembered today as the founder of Paramount Pictures, W. W. Hodkinson's accomplishments would place him among those individuals who have had the deepest influence on the development of the movie industry. THE SUPREME COURT VERDICT THAT BROUGHT AN END TO THE The Supreme Court Trial. When the Paramount case made it to Supreme Court trial on February 9, 1948 it had bee nearly a full year after the government appealed the Statutory Court ruling.. Attorney General Tom C. Clark opened the government arguments, confident that the wealth of information would prove that divorcement was necessary to end studio domination of the motion picture industry. THE CONSENT DECREE OF 1940 The Trial Starts, Then Stops. On June 3, 1940, the Paramount case went to trial in Federal Court in New York. Wanting to avoid the unpleasant public scrutiny, the studio heads effected an eleventh-hour negotiation that suspended the trial on June 17 after only two weeks of preliminary hearings. 50 YEARS: SAG REMEMBERS THE BLACKLIST Note: At this time, only a text version of this special publication on the blacklist is available here online. For information on obtaining the full-color magazine edition and/or to subscribe to the Screen Actor, please contact Greg Krizman, SAG National Publications Editor,at (213) 549-6652.
THE HOLLYWOOD RENEGADES ARCHIVE About the Archive. A Note from the Editor: The 336 page version of Hollywood Renegades: The Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers by J. A. Aberdeen published in 2000 is the story of SIMPP how an elite group of independent producers triumphed over the studio system.. The author collected unpublished material featuring independent profiles of the founders of SIMPP showing each of the THE HOLLYWOOD ANTITRUST CASE The 1948 Supreme Court decision in U.S. v. Paramount Pictures, et al, dealt a crushing blow to the Hollywood studios, and effectively brought an end to the studio system of classic cinema.This Great Hollywood Antitrust Case was actually two major suits (an numerous minor ones). In effect there were two "Paramount cases." THE MOTION PICTURE ALLIANCE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF The Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals. The Motion Picture Alliance was formed in the early 1940s by some of Hollywood's high-profile conservatives including director Sam Wood, Walt Disney, and Leo McCarey.When the House Un-American Activities Committee investigated the motion picture industry, the "friendly witnesses" came largely from the Alliance. THE CONSENT DECREE OF 1940 The Trial Starts, Then Stops. On June 3, 1940, the Paramount case went to trial in Federal Court in New York. Wanting to avoid the unpleasant public scrutiny, the studio heads effected an eleventh-hour negotiation that suspended the trial on June 17 after only two weeks of preliminary hearings. THE SUPREME COURT VERDICT THAT BROUGHT AN END TO THE The Supreme Court Trial. When the Paramount case made it to Supreme Court trial on February 9, 1948 it had bee nearly a full year after the government appealed the Statutory Court ruling.. Attorney General Tom C. Clark opened the government arguments, confident that the wealth of information would prove that divorcement was necessary to end studio domination of the motion picture industry. THE EDISON MOVIE MONOPOLY The Edison Film Manufacturing Company, the Biograph company, and the other Motion Picture Patents members ended their competitive feuding in favor of a cooperative system that provided industry domination. By pooling their interests, the member companies legally monopolized the business, and demanded licensing fees from all film producers WALTER WANGER: FILM PRODUCER Walter Wanger. Hollywood Renegade & Founding Member of The Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers. February 15, 1940. Born in San Francisco, July 11, 1894 Walter Wanger attended public schools until he was 11 then moved to New York City after his father's death. For two years he attended the Sillig school for Boys at Vevey, near Lake ORSON WELLES: HOLLYWOOD RENEGADE Orson Welles, actor - writer - director- producer, organizes the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers (SIMPP) with Sam Goldwyn, Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney and other independent producersin
W. W. HODKINSON: THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE MOVIE BUSINESS I have called William Wadsworth Hodkinson, "the Man Who Invented Hollywood" knowing that a more correct title would be — the Man Who Invented the Business of Hollywood. Remembered today as the founder of Paramount Pictures, W. W. Hodkinson's accomplishments would place him among those individuals who have had the deepest influence on the development of the movie industry. INTERNATIONAL PICTURES AND THE MERGER WITH UNIVERSAL PICTURES The record company took control of Universal, and ousted Goetz and Spitz as the company headed toward conglomeration. The relatively short careers of Liberty and International Pictures in the mid-1940s made the fleeting stability of independent producers appear even more bleak. The major studio, it seemed, was the unavoidable destination ofGOLDWYNISMS
Arthur Hornblow, Jr., came to work for Goldwyn. Goldwyn persisted in calling him "Hornbloom." Homblow corrected him several times throughout the first few months of their association. W. W. HODKINSON: THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE MOVIE BUSINESS The Hodkinson System Revolutionizes the Film Industry. by J. A. Aberdeen. W. W. Hodkinson - movie industry pioneer, founder of Paramount Pictures - portrait from around 1920, while he was operating the W. W. Hodkinson Corporation as a producer-distributor. I have called William Wadsworth Hodkinson, "the Man Who Invented Hollywood"knowing that
THE EDISON MOVIE MONOPOLY The Edison Film Manufacturing Company, the Biograph company, and the other Motion Picture Patents members ended their competitive feuding in favor of a cooperative system that provided industry domination. By pooling their interests, the member companies legally monopolized the business, and demanded licensing fees from all film producers WHAT'S IN A NAME: HOLLYWOOD FILM TITLE REGISTRATION The Little-Known Secret of Title Registration in Hollywood. Since 1925, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (commonly known as the Hays Office) maintained the Title Registration Bureau which allowed the member companies the ability to reserve specific film titles, whether or not the company had any intention onmaking a
BLOCK BOOKING: "THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL IN THE MOTION PICTURE As with any controversy, block booking was a two-sided issue. The Hollywood studios affirmed that block booking was comparable to the concept of wholesaling and THE LOT: A LEGENDARY STUDIO OF INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION IN The History of the United Artists Lot (also known as the Samuel Goldwyn Studio) by J. A. Aberdeen. 1041 North Formosa Avenue. Hollywood, California. When United Artists was formed in 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford , Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith, the founders never intended the company to be like a regularHollywood studio.
THE MOTION PICTURE ALLIANCE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF The Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals. The Motion Picture Alliance was formed in the early 1940s by some of Hollywood's high-profile conservatives including director Sam Wood, Walt Disney, and Leo McCarey.When the House Un-American Activities Committee investigated the motion picture industry, the "friendly witnesses" came largely from the Alliance. THE CONSENT DECREE OF 1940 The Trial Starts, Then Stops. On June 3, 1940, the Paramount case went to trial in Federal Court in New York. Wanting to avoid the unpleasant public scrutiny, the studio heads effected an eleventh-hour negotiation that suspended the trial on June 17 after only two weeks of preliminary hearings. GUNTHER LESSING: WALT DISNEY LAWYER Gunther R. Lessing, the chief legal counsel for Walt Disney Productions, assisted the Disney brothers during the early Mickey Mouse days, then rose to become SIMPP chairman and Disney vice-president. . . . ALEXANDER KORDA: BIOGRAPHY Alexander Korda: Biography. Alexander Korda was born Sandor Kellner September 16, 1893 on a settlement on the outskirts of Turkeve on the Great Hungarian Plain. He was the oldest of three sons in a family of assimilated Jews. As a young boy, Sandor's sight was damaged byGOLDWYNISMS
Arthur Hornblow, Jr., came to work for Goldwyn. Goldwyn persisted in calling him "Hornbloom." Homblow corrected him several times throughout the first few months of their association. W. W. HODKINSON: THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE MOVIE BUSINESS The Hodkinson System Revolutionizes the Film Industry. by J. A. Aberdeen. W. W. Hodkinson - movie industry pioneer, founder of Paramount Pictures - portrait from around 1920, while he was operating the W. W. Hodkinson Corporation as a producer-distributor. I have called William Wadsworth Hodkinson, "the Man Who Invented Hollywood"knowing that
THE EDISON MOVIE MONOPOLY The Edison Film Manufacturing Company, the Biograph company, and the other Motion Picture Patents members ended their competitive feuding in favor of a cooperative system that provided industry domination. By pooling their interests, the member companies legally monopolized the business, and demanded licensing fees from all film producers WHAT'S IN A NAME: HOLLYWOOD FILM TITLE REGISTRATION The Little-Known Secret of Title Registration in Hollywood. Since 1925, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (commonly known as the Hays Office) maintained the Title Registration Bureau which allowed the member companies the ability to reserve specific film titles, whether or not the company had any intention onmaking a
BLOCK BOOKING: "THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL IN THE MOTION PICTURE As with any controversy, block booking was a two-sided issue. The Hollywood studios affirmed that block booking was comparable to the concept of wholesaling and THE LOT: A LEGENDARY STUDIO OF INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION IN The History of the United Artists Lot (also known as the Samuel Goldwyn Studio) by J. A. Aberdeen. 1041 North Formosa Avenue. Hollywood, California. When United Artists was formed in 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford , Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith, the founders never intended the company to be like a regularHollywood studio.
THE MOTION PICTURE ALLIANCE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF The Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals. The Motion Picture Alliance was formed in the early 1940s by some of Hollywood's high-profile conservatives including director Sam Wood, Walt Disney, and Leo McCarey.When the House Un-American Activities Committee investigated the motion picture industry, the "friendly witnesses" came largely from the Alliance. THE CONSENT DECREE OF 1940 The Trial Starts, Then Stops. On June 3, 1940, the Paramount case went to trial in Federal Court in New York. Wanting to avoid the unpleasant public scrutiny, the studio heads effected an eleventh-hour negotiation that suspended the trial on June 17 after only two weeks of preliminary hearings. GUNTHER LESSING: WALT DISNEY LAWYER Gunther R. Lessing, the chief legal counsel for Walt Disney Productions, assisted the Disney brothers during the early Mickey Mouse days, then rose to become SIMPP chairman and Disney vice-president. . . . ALEXANDER KORDA: BIOGRAPHY Alexander Korda: Biography. Alexander Korda was born Sandor Kellner September 16, 1893 on a settlement on the outskirts of Turkeve on the Great Hungarian Plain. He was the oldest of three sons in a family of assimilated Jews. As a young boy, Sandor's sight was damaged by THE HOLLYWOOD RENEGADES ARCHIVE About the Archive. A Note from the Editor: The 336 page version of Hollywood Renegades: The Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers by J. A. Aberdeen published in 2000 is the story of SIMPP how an elite group of independent producers triumphed over the studio system.. The author collected unpublished material featuring independent profiles of the founders of SIMPP showing each of the BLOCK BOOKING BATTLE In May 1935, two block booking bills made their way to the United States Congress. Senator Matthew M. Neely of West Virginia proposed the Anti-Block Booking and Blind Selling Bill on May 13, 1935 for hearings in early 1936. THE MOTION PICTURE ALLIANCE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF The Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals. The Motion Picture Alliance was formed in the early 1940s by some of Hollywood's high-profile conservatives including director Sam Wood, Walt Disney, and Leo McCarey.When the House Un-American Activities Committee investigated the motion picture industry, the "friendly witnesses" came largely from the Alliance. THE CONSENT DECREE OF 1940 The Trial Starts, Then Stops. On June 3, 1940, the Paramount case went to trial in Federal Court in New York. Wanting to avoid the unpleasant public scrutiny, the studio heads effected an eleventh-hour negotiation that suspended the trial on June 17 after only two weeks of preliminary hearings. SOL LESSER - INDEPENDENT PRODUCER - COBBLES.COM Sol Lesser - independent filmmaker who at various times in his career served as indy producer, distributor, and exhibitor. One of the three new additions to SIMPP in 1942 was industry pioneer Sol Lesser whose experience in all three branches of the film industry made him a unique SIMPP member. At the age of 17, Lesser inherited his family'sSan
THE STUDIOS PLAN FOR THE ANTIRUST BATTLE, 1939 The Justice Department Files Suit Against the Hollywood Majors. By the time the Paramount suit was announced on July 20, 1938, the major studios had already spent time fortifying. The Paramount suit was not a surprise to Hollywood; and the studios made sure they were prepared for the Roosevelt administration's anti-monopoly case. THE EARLY FILM BUSINESS The producer would contract directly with a movie theater—usually at the largest and most prestigious of theaters—to show the film with reserved seating and inflated admission prices. With only a couple of showings per day to emphasize the film's prestige attraction, the road show method was one of the most profitable ways to debut a feature. INTERNATIONAL PICTURES AND THE MERGER WITH UNIVERSAL PICTURES The record company took control of Universal, and ousted Goetz and Spitz as the company headed toward conglomeration. The relatively short careers of Liberty and International Pictures in the mid-1940s made the fleeting stability of independent producers appear even more bleak. The major studio, it seemed, was the unavoidable destination of ALEXANDER KORDA: BIOGRAPHY Alexander Korda: Biography. Alexander Korda was born Sandor Kellner September 16, 1893 on a settlement on the outskirts of Turkeve on the Great Hungarian Plain. He was the oldest of three sons in a family of assimilated Jews. As a young boy, Sandor's sight was damaged by 50 YEARS: SAG REMEMBERS THE BLACKLIST Note: At this time, only a text version of this special publication on the blacklist is available here online. For information on obtaining the full-color magazine edition and/or to subscribe to the Screen Actor, please contact Greg Krizman, SAG National Publications Editor,at (213) 549-6652.
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The Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers (SIMPP) was formed in 1941 with a mission to protect the freedom of the independent producer in an industry dominated by major studios. There were eight founders of SIMPP — the most powerful independents of the day, and some of the most famous names in film history: Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney ,
Samuel Goldwyn , Alexander Korda, Mary Pickford
, David O. Selznick
, Walter Wanger
, and Orson Welles
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At the time SIMPP was organized, the _studio system_ dominated the American film industry. Films were mass-produced in large film factories and exhibited in studio-owned theater chains, to audiences whose primary entertainment was a weekly trip to the movies. In contrast to the major studios, the independent producers made hand-crafted quality films. Independents understood that masterpieces were best made by individual artists, not studio committees. Without the studio restrictions, the independents were free to break new ground with such films as _Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs_, _Gone With the Wind_, _Fantasia_, _City Lights_, and _Citizen Kane_. The independent producers believed that in order to protect high-quality filmmaking, they would need to eliminate the studio system ofHollywood.
The members of SIMPP had diverse talents that included acting, writing, and directing. They became producers in order to secure their creative and financial freedom. During the 1940s and 1950s, SIMPP grew from the exodus of contract talent who left the studio system to turn freelance. SIMPP showed them how to secure their freedom by forming independent production companies. At the same time, the Society brought pressure on the U.S. Justice Department to take the major studios to court. In 1948, the famous Supreme Court _Paramount_ decision ordered the studios to sell their theater chains and to eliminate certain anti-competitive practices that effectively brought an end tothe studio system.
The never-before-told story of the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers has been revealed by historian J. A. Aberdeen in the book _Hollywood Renegades _. Using the original records of the Society, the author has uncovered an aspect of cinema history that has had wide-reaching influence, even though the group has received stark attention until now. -------------------------ABOUT THE ARCHIVE
A Note from the Editor: The 336 page version of _Hollywood Renegades: The Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers_ by J. A. Aberdeen published in 2000 is the story of SIMPP — how an elite group of independent producers triumphed over the studio system. The author collected unpublished material featuring independent profiles of the founders of SIMPP showing each of the filmmakers often spending equal time protecting their freedom as making the movies themselves. The author’s extensive collection of material also brought the Hollywood studios into a new light, and illustrated how the major film companies all once struggled as independents before abandoning their independent roots as they entered the realm of bigbusiness.
The unpublished material outside of the scope of the book version of _Hollywood Renegades_ — the first and only full-length account of the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers — is presented here in the HOLLYWOOD RENEGADES ARCHIVE. Since the Hollywood Renegades Archive was begun, it has evolved into a database of information and original documents on such topics as the origin of film, the rise of the studios, the development of the independent movement, and the status of the entertainment industry. Cobblestone Entertainment has been privileged to present information that is constantly growing. In addition to the vast and unique collection of J. A. Aberdeen, we welcome additions to the database from other film fans and filmmakers who are interested in sharing information with the worldwide cinema community.Disclaimers:
While every effort has been made to preserve the historical accuracy and relevancy of online material, we acknowledge that unintentional errors may exist. Neither Cobblestone Entertainment nor J. A. Aberdeen is responsible for errors or omissions. The material in the Hollywood Renegades Archives has been drawn from multitudinous sources. Quotes and excerpts are used in accordance with _fair use_ copyright laws. We do not knowingly transmit material in violation of copyright laws, and we encourage correspondence from any party whose material is represented in the Archive. The Hollywood Renegade Archive is presented free to the public in an effort to encourage the study of films, and to provide a unique resource for scholarly purposes. -------------------------CONTACT THE AUTHOR
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