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The Standard Exhibition Contract and the Unwritten History of the Classical Hollywood Cinema
- Film History: An International Journal
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 25, Number 1-2, 2013
- pp. 138-153
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Exploring the manner in which industry trade practices determined the patterns of local exhibition in the 1920s and 1930s, this article provides a contextual history of Classical Hollywood cinema's most ubiquitous document, the Standard Exhibition Contract, by which the major distributors did business with independent exhibitors.