Foreign General Ledgers: United Artists Corporation Records, Series 5C, 1929-1950
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Summary Information
Title: Foreign General Ledgers: United Artists Corporation Records, Series 5C
Inclusive Dates: 1929-1950

Creator:
  • United Artists Corporation
Call Number: Micro 1027; U.S. Mss 99AN/5C

Quantity: 11 reels of microfilm (35 mm)

Repository:
Housed at the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives and Museum Collections; owned by the Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research

Archival Locations:
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:
Details of credits and debits to accounts at United Artists' foreign offices. These offices, modeled on the corporation's system of domestic exchanges, did business within a designated geographical area. Thus, the Argentina office conducted business in Uruguay and Paraguay as well as in Argentina. The individual accounts encompass the entire range of activities of UA's foreign business, from capital stock to petty cash and from profit on currency exchange to producers' shares of played-and-earned income.

Note:

In 1985, the volumes were microfilmed and the original volumes discarded after microfilming.

Forms part of the United Artists Corporation collection.



Language: English

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Arrangement of the Materials

The volumes are arranged by name of foreign office in alphabetical order and chronologically under each name. Each volume contains accounts for one or more years for a particular office.

Scope and Content Note

The Foreign General Ledgers contain details of credits and debits to accounts at United Artists' foreign offices. These offices, modeled on the corporation's system of domestic exchanges, did business within a designated geographical area. Thus, the Argentina office conducted business in Uruguay and Paraguay as well as in Argentina; the Puerto Rico office also did business in Aruba and Curacao, and so forth. Detailed information as to the geographical scope of each office may be found in the description for the Foreign Accounts Section. The individual accounts encompass the entire range of activities of UA's foreign business, from capital stock to petty cash and from profit on currency exchange to producers' shares of played-and-earned income. Whenever funds were transferred from one account to another, an entry appeared in the ledgers. (Corresponding entries were made on a daily basis in foreign journals; unfortunately, these have not survived.) A list of the accounts recorded in a typical volume follows. Note that in most cases figures in the foreign ledgers are in local currencies, not U.S. dollars. Also included at the end of the series are a Foreign Journal, March 1934-December 1935, and a Foreign Home Office Ledger, 1933-1948.

There follows a representative list of the kinds of accounts to be found in the Foreign General Ledgers. This list was extracted from the volume for Colombia, 1949, and includes both ledger and operating expense entries in their original order.

General Ledger

  • Cash - Film Rental Account
  • Reserve for Doubtful Accounts
  • Cash - Sales Managers Account
  • Reserve for Depreciation of Furniture
  • Petty Cash
  • U.A.C. Purchase Account
  • Advances & Deposits
  • Capital Stock
  • Investments
  • Surplus
  • Accounts Receivable Agents - Bucaramanga
  • Played & Earned
  • Accounts Receivable - Exhibitors
  • Producers Share of Played & Earned
  • Furniture & Fixtures
  • Accessory Sales
  • Deferred Charges
  • Cost of Accessories
  • Accounts Payable - Producers
  • Profit & Loss on Exchange
  • Accounts Payable & Accrued Expenses
  • Other Income
  • Deferred Credits
  • Prints, Duty, Censorship, etc.
  • Reserve for Taxes on Future Re-mittances
  • Operating Expenses
  • Income Tax
  • Reserve for Employees Dismissal Indemnities
  • Other Taxes
  • Depreciation of Furniture & Fixtures
  • Reserve for Amortization Investments
  • Other Expenses
  • Profit & Loss
Operating Expenses
  • Salaries
  • Insurance
  • Employees Dismissal
  • Advertising & Publicity
  • Agents Commission
  • Auditing & Legal Fees
  • Checking
  • Film Maintenance
  • Rent & House Service
  • Association Dues
  • Travel
  • Newspapers, Magazines & Statistics
  • Local Transportation
  • Medical Attention & Medicine
  • Stationery & Office Supplies
  • Depreciation of Furniture & Fixtures
  • Telephone & Telegraph
  • Miscellaneous
  • Postage
  • Social Insurance
  • Freight & Cartage
  • Bank Charges
Contents List
U.S. Mss 99AN/5C
Cristobal
Reel   1
Frame   1-132
1939
Note: Includes Canal Zone, Trinidad, Ecuador, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and El Salvador, in that order.
Reel   1
Frame   133-292
1940
Note: Includes Canal Zone, Nicaragua, Trinidad, Ecuador, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
Reel   1
Frame   293-476
1944
Note: Includes Cristobal, Trinidad, Venezuela, El Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Ecuador. Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   1
Frame   477-664
1945
Note: Includes Cristobal, Canal Zone, Venezuela, Trinidad, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador. Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   1
Frame   665-862
1946
Note: Includes Cristobal, Ecuador, Trinidad, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and El Salvador. Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   2
Frame   1-202
1947
Note: Includes Cristobal, Ecuador, Trinidad, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Venezuela, and El Salvador. Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   2
Frame   203-410
1948
Note: Includes Cristobal, Ecuador, Trinidad, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Venezuela, and El Salvador. Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   2
Frame   411-616
1949
Note: Includes Colon, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, El Salvador, Trinidad, and Venezuela. Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   2
Frame   617-846
1950
Note: Includes Colon, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, El Salvador, Trinidad, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. Includes Operating Expense
China
Reel   3
Frame   1-207
General Ledger and Producers Accounts, 1934-1935
Reel   3
Frame   208-309
General Ledger and Producers Accounts (includes Theatre Control Accounts (customer ledger)), 1934-1936
Reel   3
Frame   310-411
1937-1938
Note: Shanghai, China and Hong Kong.
Reel   3
Frame   412-445
1942 November-1945
Note: Shanghai.
Reel   3
Frame   446-502
1946
Note: Shanghai and Hong Kong.
Reel   3
Frame   503-584
1947
Note: Shanghai and Formosa (Taiwan).
Reel   3
Frame   585-672
1948
Note: Hong Kong.
Reel   3
Frame   673-720
1949
Note: Hong Kong. Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   3
Frame   721-778
1950
Note: Hong Kong and Formosa (Taiwan). Includes Operating Expense.
Colombia
Reel   3
Frame   779-971
1934-1936
Note: Includes Colombia, 1936; Bogota, 1934 June-1935 December; and Producers Account, 1934 September-1935 June.
Reel   4
Frame   1-81
1937-1938
Reel   4
Frame   82-124
1939
Reel   4
Frame   125-162
1940
Reel   4
Frame   163-292
1944
Note: Includes Colombia, Operating Expenses, and Astral Theatre Account, April-December 1944. Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   4
Frame   293-352
1949
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   4
Frame   353-414
1950
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Cuba
Reel   4
Frame   415-462
1939
Reel   4
Frame   463-500
1940
Reel   4
Frame   501-554
1944
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   4
Frame   555-609
1945
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   4
Frame   610-665
1946
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   4
Frame   666-724
1947
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   4
Frame   725-782
1948
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   4
Frame   783-841
1949
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   4
Frame   842-903
1950
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Czechoslovakia
Reel   5
Frame   1-113
1940
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Denmark, Sweden, and Switzerland
Note: Formerly entitled “Continental Europe.”
Reel   5
Frame   114-271
1940-1945
Note: Denmark only. Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   5
Frame   272-463
1946
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   5
Frame   464-648
1947
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Egypt
Reel   5
Frame   649-695
1944 July-December
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Far East, including Japan, China, Dutch East Indies, Straits Settlements, India, Philippine Islands, and Korea
Reel   5
Frame   696-1094
General Ledger and Producers Accounts, 1929-1931
India
Reel   6
Frame   1-115
General Ledger and Producers Accounts, 1929-1934
Japan
Reel   6
Frame   116-265
1931-1935
Netherlands East Indies
Reel   6
Frame   266-391
General Ledger and Producers Accounts, 1933 April-1935
Reel   6
Frame   392-679
General Ledger and Producers Accounts, 1936-1940
Peru
Reel   6
Frame   680-715
1937-1938
Note: Includes Bolivia.
Reel   6
Frame   716-764
1939
Note: Includes Bolivia.
Reel   6
Frame   765-799
1940
Note: Includes Bolivia.
Reel   6
Frame   800-860
1944
Note: Includes Bolivia. Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   6
Frame   861-924
1945
Note: Includes Bolivia. Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   7
Frame   1-61
1946
Note: Includes Bolivia. Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   7
Frame   62-129
1947
Note: Includes Bolivia. Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   7
Frame   130-186
1948
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   7
Frame   187-241
1949
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   7
Frame   242-296
1950
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Philippines
Reel   7
Frame   297-774
1929-1935
Note: Includes General Ledgers, General Producers Accounts; and Producers Accounts for Old (Pesos), B&D Features, B&D Pictures, Mickey Mouse, Silly Symphonies, and UAC Shorts.
Reel   7
Frame   775-812
1936
Reel   7
Frame   813-859
1937
Reel   7
Frame   860-900
1938
Reel   7
Frame   901-940
1939
Reel   8
Frame   1-37
1940 January-September
Reel   8
Frame   38-77
1945
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   8
Frame   78-131
1946
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   8
Frame   132-189
1947
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   8
Frame   190-253
1948
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   8
Frame   254-311
1949
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   8
Frame   312-367
1950
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Puerto Rico, including Aruba and Curacao
Reel   8
Frame   368-450
1944
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   8
Frame   451-538
1945
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   8
Frame   539-622
1946
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   8
Frame   623-706
1947
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   8
Frame   707-792
1948
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   8
Frame   793-881
1949
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   9
Frame   1-81
1950
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Spain
Reel   9
Frame   82-217
General Ledger and Producers Accounts, 1940
Reel   9
Frame   218-320
1941-1945
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   9
Frame   321-350
1946
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   9
Frame   351-392
1947
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Straits Settlements (Singapore)
Reel   9
Frame   393-654
General Ledgers and Producers Account, 1931-1935
Reel   9
Frame   655-766
1936-1938
Reel   9
Frame   767-821
1946
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   9
Frame   822-903
1947
Note: Includes Siam (Thailand). Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   10
Frame   1-79
1948
Note: Includes Siam (Thailand). Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   10
Frame   80-151
1949
Note: Includes Siam (Thailand). Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   10
Frame   152-224
1950
Note: Includes Siam (Thailand). Includes Operating Expense.
Sweden
Reel   10
Frame   225-286
1944
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   10
Frame   287-348
1945
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Switzerland
Reel   10
Frame   349-412
1944
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   10
Frame   413-476
1945
Note: Includes Operating Expense.
Reel   10
Frame   477-end
Foreign Journal, 1934 March-1935 December
Reel   11
Frame   1-441
Foreign Home Office Journal, 1933-1948