Block booking is a system of selling multiple films to a theater as a unit. Block booking was the prevailing practice in the Hollywood studio system from...

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perhaps best known for its vertical integration of the film industry and block booking practices. On April 1, 1927, the company name was changed to Paramount...

studios could no longer block-book short film subjects along with feature films (known as one-shot, or full force, block booking); The Big Five studios...

Eliminate the block-booking of short film subjects, in an arrangement known as "one shot", or "full force" block-booking. Eliminate the block-booking of any...

established B units to provide films for the expanding second-feature market. Block booking became standard practice: to get access to a studio's attractive A pictures...

Reid. With so many important players, Paramount was able to introduce "block booking", which meant that an exhibitor who wanted a particular star's films...

guaranteeing additional sales of films through manipulative booking techniques such as block booking. During the so-called Golden Age, eight companies constituted...

double feature arose partly because of a studio practice known as "block booking," a form of tying, in which major Hollywood studios required theaters...

College in the summer of 1925, and released on December 15. Due to block booking, it was not shown in New York until July 21, 1926. Photoplay was displeased:...

term in a film context. One explanation pertains to the practice of "block booking" whereby a studio would sell a package of films to theaters, rather...

Paramount case—which forced movie distributors to end the practice of block booking, or selling shorts and features to theaters in packages—affected Lantz...

Roach could move Our Gang into features, as the double feature and block booking were slowly smothering his short subjects production. The film was a...

vendors, and a partnership with Jetaport, the discounted hotel room block booking service. In the same year, WeddingWire completed the acquisition of...

(later Paramount). Zukor acquiesced to her refusal to participate in block-booking, the widespread practice of forcing an exhibitor to show a bad film...

studios, like large Paramount and growing Warner Bros., depended on block booking and blind bidding practices, under which "independent ('unaffiliated')...

Circus on 10 December. They resumed sessions at IBC in January 1969, block booking Monday to Thursday, but had to do gigs every weekend to stop going further...

movement – Peter Bogdanovich Following the Paramount Case (which ended block booking and ownership of theater chains by film studios) and the advent of television...

Show systems of film distribution, Paramount introduced the concept of block-booking. This meant that exhibitors who wanted a particular movie had to buy...

billing and no more than four films a year. Having learned about the block-booking studio system that virtually guaranteed the studios huge profits, Cagney...

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downfall was more a result of their business practices—including alleged block booking of poorly selling games with successful ones when dealing with distributors—than...

Antitrust Laws, 72 Harv. L. Rev. 50 (1958); George J. Stigler, A Note On Block Booking, 1963 Supreme Court Review 152; Kenneth Dam, Fortner Enterprises v....

reputation of their institution was by pushing the passage of the Neely Anti-Block Booking Bill, which eventually led to the breakup of the studio-owned theater...

was president of United Artists in 1935. He proposed the process of block booking to Adolph Zukor, which became industry standard practice. Variety called...

curatorship of NWW from this point onwards. The album was the result of a block booking made by Stapleton at IPS Studios in London, reserving every Friday evening...

Wallace Reid. With so many important players, Zukor also pioneered "Block Booking" for Paramount Pictures, which meant that an exhibitor who wanted a...

antitrust case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that block booking of movies—the offer of only a combined assortment of movies to an exhibitor—violates...

Theaters United States v. Loew's Inc., a 1962 Supreme Court decision on block booking Cineplex Entertainment "Perenchio Seeks to Buy Loews' Theater Chain"...

Pictures, Inc., 334 US 131 (1948) Hollywood studios practice of requiring block booking was unlawful among other things Times-Picayune Publishing Co. v. United...