Anti"block-booking" and "blind Selling" in the Leasing of Motion-picture Films: Hearings Before a Subcommittee...on S. 280...April 3-17, 1939 |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Expressions et termes fréquents
affiliated Allied States Association American April arbitration ATKINSON BANNERMAN believe better films Big Eight blind buying blind selling block-booking and blind booking and blind chairman committee companies compulsory block booking Congress contract D. C. DEAR directors distribution Distributors of America ELLISON D entertainment exhibition fact favor feature Federal gentlemen Hays hearing Hollywood independent exhibitors independent theaters interest Interstate Commerce Committee lease legislation license Mae West Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Miss LYFORD moral Motion Picture Producers Motion Picture Theater motion pictures motion-picture films motion-picture industry MYERS National Neely bill operation organization Paramount Paramount Pictures percent PETTIJOHN photoplay present president Producers and Distributors production code proposed record released represent SAMUELSON selection Senator NEELY Senator SMITH Senator WHITE statement story subcommittee synopsis testimony tion trade practices tures Twentieth Century-Fox United Artists United States Senate Warner Bros Washington women YAMINS
Fréquemment cités
Page 487 - This power, like all others vested in congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the constitution.
Page 487 - And the guaranty of due process, as has often been held, demands only that the law shall not be unreasonable, arbitrary, or capricious, and that the means selected shall have a real and substantial relation to the object sought to be attained.
Page 78 - You may put it into the record. (The document referred to and submitted by the witness is here printed in full as follows...
Page 486 - It is clear that there is no closed class or category of businesses affected with a public interest, and the function of courts in the application of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments is to determine in each case whether circumstances vindicate the challenged regulation as a reasonable exertion of governmental authority or condemn it as arbitrary or discriminatory. The phrase "affected with a public interest...
Page 486 - ... /In the absence of any purpose to create or maintain a monopoly, the act does not restrict the long recognized right of trader or manufacturer engaged in an entirely private business, freely to exercise his own independent discretion as to parties with whom he will deal. And, of course, he may announce in advance the circumstances under which he will refuse to sell.
Page 43 - No picture shall be produced which will lower the moral standards of those who see it. Hence the sympathy of the audience . shall never be thrown to the side of crime, wrong-doing, evil or
Page 487 - But if, as must be conceded, the industry is subject to regulation in the public interest, what constitutional principle bars the state from correcting existing maladjustments by legislation touching prices? We think there is no such principle.