Series: General Ledger (Volume 1), 1936-1949

Assets

#1001: Cash in Bank of America

#1010: Securities Owned - Bonds

#1031: Accounts Receivable

#1033: Anticipated Refund of Federal Income Taxes

#1035: Special Receivable - Cash Advanced to Empire Productions Inc.

#1036: Special Receivable - Cash Advanced to Vanguard Films Inc.

#1037: Investment in Samuel Goldwyn Studio

#1040: United Artists Corporation - Intercompany Open Account

#1043: Revenue Due UA Productions Withheld by United Artists Corporation (Intercompany Picture Revenue account)

#1055: Released Productions (produced by Walter F. Wanger and acquired from Walter Wanger Productions Inc.)

#1055: Released Productions (purchased from Paramount Pictures Inc., produced by Harry Sherman)

#1055: Released Productions (Dangerous Journey, purchased from 20th Century Fox Film Corporation)

#1056: Write-Down of Unrecouped Costs

#1075: Story Rights - Girls Town

#1075-1: Stories and Scenarios: The Last Outlaw

#1077: Deferred Charges - Rapture re-editing job

#1081: Office Equipment

Liabilities

#1102: Note Payable - Guarantee Trust Company

#1103: Notes Payable - Security - First National Bank

#1111: Accounts Payable Control

#1115: Accrued Payroll

#1116: Advance Distribution Expense

#1116: Balances Due Distributor - United Artists Corporation

#1125: Gradwell Sears - Commissions Earned

#1130: Children's Contest - Bruns Arts Studio

#1133: Employees' and Employers' Unemployment Insurance

#1134: Employees' and Employers' FOAB Contribution

#1135: Federal Withholding Tax (accrued liability)

#1140: Permanent Charities Committee

#1149: Reserve for California State Franchise Tax

#1150: Reserve for Federal Income and Excess Profits Tax

#1152: Accrued Federal Income and Declared Value Excess Profits Tax

#1153: Accrued Federal Excess Profits Tax

#1157: Accrued California State Franchise Tax

#1169: Reserve for Uncashed Checks

#1170: Reserve for Depreciation on Equipment

#1171: Reserve for Bad Debts

#1172: Reserve for Story Rights

#1175: Reserve for Retroactive Pay Adjustments to Film Editors

#1180: Reserve for Unrecouped Cost on Released Productions

#1195: Unrecouped Costs of Wanger Pictures (deduction for inventories)

#1196: Reserve for Unrecouped Cost

Capital

#1204: Capital Stock - Preferred (issued)

#1205: Capital Stock - Common "A" (issued)

#1207: Capital Stock - Common "B" (issued)

Revenues, Expenses

#1301: General Overhead

#1304: Samuel Goldwyn Studio Rent Income

#1305: Interest Income

#1320
Scope and Content Note: Each account for the following films have some or all of the following sub-accounts: a: Distribution Revenue; b: Music Royalties; c: Sale of Radio Rights; d: 16 mm Rights.

#1320-15: You Only Live Once

#1320-16: History Is Made at Night

#1320-17: Vogues of 1938

#1320-18: 52nd Street

#1320-19: I Met My Love Again

#1320-20: Stand In

#1320-21: Blockade

#1320-22: Algiers (Pépé le Moko)

#1320-23: Trade Winds

#1320-24: Stagecoach

#1320-25: Winter Carnival

#1320-26: Eternally Yours

#1320-27: Slightly Honorable

#1320-28: House Across the Bay

#1320-29: Foreign Correspondent

#1320-30: Long Voyage Home

#1320-31: Sundown

#1320-32: I Married a Witch

#1320-33: American Empire

#1320-34: Silver Queen

#1320-35: Young and Willing

#1320-36: Undercover Man

#1320-37: Border Patrol

#1320-38: Lost Canyon

#1320-39: Leather Burners

#1320-40: The Crystal Ball

#1320-31: Hoppy Serves a Writ

#1320-42: Buckskin Frontier

#1320-43: Colt Comrades

#1320-45: Bar 20

#1320-46: The Kansan

#1320-47: Riders of the Deadline

#1320-48: Woman of the Town

#1320-49: False Colors

#1320-50: Texas Masquerade

#1320-51: Mystery Man

#1320-52: Lumberjack

#1320-53: Forty Thieves

#1320-54: Dangerous Journey (formerly Outposts Unknown)

#1351-15 through 1351-54: Distribution Expense (for same titles as listed under account #1320)

#1352-23: Trade Winds - Player's and Director's Participation in Profits

#1352-24: Stagecoach - Player's and Director's Participation in Profits

#1352-31: Sundown - Player's and Director's Participation in Profits

#1355-1: Net Revenues - Wanger Pictures

#1355-2: Net Revenues - Paramount Pictures

#1360: Profit and Loss Account

#1370: Earned Surplus

Series: Cash Receipts and Disbursements (Volume 2), 1942 July-1950 February

Cash Received
Scope and Content Note: Chronological record including name of corporation, person or account from which cash was received; the amounts; and the associated Wanger account number credited; with monthly totals.

Check Record
Scope and Content Note: Chronological record including names of payees, amounts, check numbers and associated Wanger account numbers; with monthly totals.

Series: Voucher Register (Volume 3), 1943 January-1950 February
Scope and Content Note: Register, in voucher number order, including names of payees, amounts and the associated Wanger account numbers; with monthly totals. Also includes distribution of invoices records.

Series: Accounts Receivable (Volume 4), 1938-1949
Scope and Content Note: Alphabetical by name of person or account including dates of transactions, posting references, charges, credits and balances.

Series: Accounts Payable (Volume 5), 1939-1950
Scope and Content Note: Alphabetical by name of person or account including dates of transactions, posting references, charges, credits and balances.

Series: General Overhead (Volume 6), 1943-1948
Scope and Content Note: Breakdown of account #1301 into sub-accounts for various phases of general overhead expenses. Chronological in sections (from back to front of volume) with each section containing separate pages for each sub-account. Each page contains date of transaction, posting references, amounts and annual or running totals.

Series: Distribution Revenue and Expense (Volume 7 and 8)

(Volume 7), 1938-1949
Scope and Content Note: Receipts and disbursements, both foreign and domestic, for Trade Winds, Stagecoach, Stand-In, Winter Carnival, Eternally Yours, Slightly Honorable, House Across the Bay, Foreign Correspondent, and Long Voyage Home.

through Winter Carnival

from Eternally Yours

(Volume 8), 1944-1947
Scope and Content Note: Foreign and Domestic receipts and disbursements for films #15 through 54 (see list of titles under Volume 1, Revenues, in this series).

through Texas Masquerade

from Mystery Man

Series: Production Cost Voucher Register (Volume 9 and 10)

(Volume 9), 1935-1936
Scope and Content Note

Register, in chronological order, of production vouchers in various categories for: A/C #1075-35: Cheyenne; 1075-33: Algiers; 1075-32: Sundown; 1075-31: Eagle Squadron; 1075-29: Dynasty of Death; 1075-28: Around the World in 80 Days; 1075-27: So Gallantly Gleaming; 1075-8: Arabian Nights; 1075-7: Peacock Feathers; 1075-6: Desert Intrigue; 1075-5: A Woman Loves Once

A section on “Jobs in Progress” relates to vouchers for small individual projects. Volume 9 also includes Feud, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, Palm Springs, The Moon's Our Home, Brazen, Big Brown Eyes, The Strange Case of Mrs. Ames, Spendthrift, Peacock Feathers, Hi-Diver, Simoon, Sahara, and History Is Made at Night.

through Brazen

from Big Brown Eyes

(Volume 10), 1939-1941
Scope and Content Note

Similar to Volume 9 for Prod. #7: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (also known as Feud); #9: Palm Springs; #10: The Moon's Our Home; #11: Fatal Lady (also known as Brazen), #12: Big Brown Eyes; #13: The Case Against Mrs. Ames (Strange Case of...); #14: Spendthrift; Peacock Feathers; Sahara (Algiers?); History Is Made at Night and for several proposed scenarios.

Volume 10 also includes Sundown, Eagle Squadron, Dynasty of Death, Around the World in 80 Days, So Gallantly Gleaming, Arabian Nights, Desert Intrigue, and A Woman Loves Once.

Series: Productions Payroll (Volume 11), 1939 October-1941 November