Artists: Artist breakdown
Distribution:
Reissue Distributors - During the 1930s-1950s, many small distributors would reissue films released by the larger studios. We have created 2 different lists of the smaller re-distributors.
Major studios - and who re-distributed their films
Minor distributor - and the major studios they got their films from.
States Rights System - An explanation and sample of the states rights system
Exchanges:
A. tracking the posters
exchanges from silent until current. Who they were, where were they,
want did they do, why they closed and what happened to the posters when
they closed.
National Screen:
A. NSS Number Log - tracking and compiling the numbers used for the individual titles from 1940 until 1998
A. Logo log that tracks the
studio logo on the posters for any changes to date when those changes took
place. Cross-referenced with the litho plate numbers, this helps establish
release dates and helps to identify reissues.
NOTICE:
We are putting the individual studio logs online in a basic format. We will
be adding more information and links to each of the studio logs as soon
as we can.
We have Production Logs for
the following studios from our 2008 Production Code Book:The 2009 Book, which has the most recent compilation is not divided by studio. The 2011 Edition (due out Dec. 2010) will be.
Theaters
A. Number
of Theater Screens - yearly breakdown of movie screens in the US from 1935
- 2005
Trailers - This section contains information about the handling of trailers by National Screen Service and our book National Screen Service Trailer Logs, including the logs with over 15,000 NSS numbers
LAMP Books
Legality of US Movie Posters - This is the online version of our booklet for Members and Sponsors.
