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Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America Incorporated database
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The MPPDA Digital Archives consists of a database of the extant records of the General Correspondence files of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc., covering the period from 1922 to 1939 .
Description
Established in 1922, the MPPDA was the trade association for the motion picture industry, and included all the major companies producing and distributing motion pictures in the United States in its membership.
The association was popularly known as the Hays Office, after its first President, Will H. Hays, who remained office until 1945. Hays was a leading Republican party politician, who resigned from President Warren Harding's Cabinet to take up the MPPDA position. After Hays' retirement, the association was renamed the Motion Picture Association of America.
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The documents in the MPPDA ís General Correspondence files are an immensely rich source of information about the history of the motion picture industry. They describe the organization and operation of the industry's trade association, and include extensive correspondence and other documentation relating to industry policy and public relations, distributor-exhibitor relations, censorship and self-regulation. The great majority of this material is unavailable from other sources.
Grants:
- 1997, 1998, MPPDA Archive digitisation and database development. Flinders University Establishment Grant to digitise the microfilm of the MPPDA Archive and develop a publicly accessible database.
- 2000, 2001, Reforming the Movies: A Political History of the American Cinema, 1908 - 1940. ARC A00104524 Date coverage: 1922 - 1939 Location: United States
Links
Where it is published
- Repository landing page open.flinders.edu.au/articles/dataset/Motion_Picture_Producers_and_Distributors_of_… ↗
landing page · from DataCite
- DOI doi.org/10.25451/flinders.16881940 ↗
DOI / persistent id · from DataCite
Documentation and papers
- library.unimelb.edu.au /Digital-Scholarship/restrictive-licence-template ↗
Reuse under agreement (Restrictive Licence Template)
license · from DataCite
Catalogue records · 2
- DataCite API api.datacite.org/dois/10.25451/flinders.16881940 ↗
metadata API · from DataCite
- DataCite Commons commons.datacite.org/doi.org/10.25451/flinders.16881940 ↗
catalogue entry · from DataCite
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Provenance · 1 source records, 11 field assertions
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| DataCite | 10.25451/flinders.16881940 | 7 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| concepts[field].fos:history-and-archaeology | source · DataCite | connector:datacite@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].fos:media-and-communications | source · DataCite | connector:datacite@1.0.0 | |
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| created_date | source · DataCite | connector:datacite@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · DataCite | connector:datacite@1.0.0 | /data/attributes/descriptions |
| license_text | source · DataCite | connector:datacite@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · DataCite | connector:datacite@1.0.0 | /data/attributes/dates |
| title | source · DataCite | connector:datacite@1.0.0 | /data/attributes/titles/0/title |
| updated_date | source · DataCite | connector:datacite@1.0.0 |