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Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
In August 1977, the Los Angeles Times adopted a policy that prohibited advertising for hardcore pornographic movies. This decision generated much debate and incoming correspondence. Letters are arranged by opinion of the policy and chronologically. Date range is 1977-1978.
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Five letters to Otis Chandler from Jack Valenti [Lyndon Johnson's "special assistant" and president of the Motion Picture Association of America]. Also in this folder is a two page photocopy of a Newsweek article dated September 22, 1980.
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1 item: 7-pp. script headed "INAME speech" given by Don Maldonado
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Approx. 40 items. A collection of varied materials on southern California's motion picture industry: Notable items: 49-pp. monograph, ca. 1930, "Amazing career of the Warner Brothers..." by Esther Hamilton ; copied book excerpt, Los Angeles - City of Dreams, by Harry Carr, 1935, Chptr. XXII, "The Studios" ; approx. 16-pp. copied from "How the Screen found its Voice," 1946, Chpt. One, "Out of the laboratory" ; book excerpt, "Hollywood...the toll of the frenzied Forties," Our Times, 1957 ; book excerpt, Introduction to Hollywood in the Forties, 1968 ; book excerpt, The Parade's gone by, 1969.
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4 items, including dupes: memo from Tom Johnson to "Management Personnel," 12/22/1987, on organizational changes announced by Jim Boswell involving Jim Duncan, Mike Valenti and John Nichols ; organizational chart reflecting these changes headed "Vice President Employee & Public Relations," which also show Wayne Buck as "Director of Medical Services."
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1 item: spiral bound (black cover) issues of Display Advertising Digest for 1980. This publication featured Display Advertising Department news, charts and related information. Some 1980 issues are spiral bound and others, including a "Special Issue" for 4/1980, are loose in the folder.
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