Title: United Artists Corporation Minutes: United Artists Corporation Records, Series 1A
Inclusive Dates: 1919-1951

Creator:

• United Artists Corporation

Call Number: Micro 448/Reel 19; U.S. Mss 99AN/1A

Quantity: 1 reel 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:

Minutes, incorporation documents, stock certificates, and miscellany. The materials consist of minutes of regular, special, adjourned, and annual meetings of stockholders, board of directors, and executive committee between April 24, 1919 and January 4, 1951. They include notices of meetings, waivers of notice, proxies, lists of stockholders, elections of officers and intermittent contractual and employment agreements, financial reports, management reports, samples of stock certificates, correspondence pertinent to meetings, and copies of the Certificate of Incorporation, by-laws, and amendments.

Note:

This material is available only on positive microfilm. The location of the original negative is unknown. The film was produced by the United Artists Corporation, 1968.

Forms part of the United Artists Corporation collection.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mic4481a

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Chronological.

O'Brien Legal Files: United Artists Corporation Records, Series 2A, 1919-1951

The list notes only meetings which are represented on the microfilm by papers in addition to minutes:

April 17, 1919	Certificate of Incorporation
April 17, 1919	By-laws
April 24, 1919	First Meeting Board of Directors (stock certificate samples - common and preferred)
April 5, 1920	Annual Meeting Stockholders (including report of the Treasurer)
April 9, 1920	Special Meeting Board of Directors (including memorandum on audit of accounts)
April 27, 1920	Adjourned Meeting Board of Directors (including memorandum on corporate finances)
January 29, 1924	Special Meeting Board of Directors (including Memorandum of Agreement UAC and Allied Producers and Distributors Corporation)
October 1, 1925	Special Meeting Board of Directors (San Francisco lease)
October 1, 1925	Special Meeting Board of Directors (Buenos Aires bank account)
January 14, 1927	Special Meeting Board of Directors (2 versions - differ slightly)
April 20, 1927	Six letters of approval concerning resolution to give widow of Hiram Adams stipend
October 24, 1927	Certificate of Amendment
February 1, 1928	Special Meeting Board of Directors (bank accounts Rio de Janiero and Sao Paulo)
February 1, 1928	Special Meeting of Board of Directors (election of new Director)
February 1, 1928	Special Meeting Board of Directors (bank account Bahia, Brazil)
September 19, 1928	Special Meeting Board of Directors (including letter of Minutes of Director's Meeting of Allied Artists Corporation Ltd. August 17, 1928)
April 7, 1930	Annual Meeting Stockholders (including Certified Accounts as of December 28, 1929, drawn up April 4, 1930)
August 6, 1930	Special Meeting Board of Directors (including Affidavit on UAC Ltd. (England)
April 6, 1931	Annual Meeting Stockholders (including Certified Audited Accounts for 1930)
February 24, 1932	Special Meeting Board of Directors (including 4 letters, February 25, approval by Board Members of modified resolution)
July 8, 1935	Annual Adjourned Meeting Stockholders (by-laws amended)
July 7-8, 10-11, 13-16, 20-22	Annual Adjourned Meeting Stockholders (by-laws amended)
December 2, 1936	Special Meeting Stockholders (by-laws amended)
November 23, 1940	Annual Adjourned Meeting Stockholders (report by General Manager November 20, 1940. Includes consolidated statements and balance sheets 46 weeks)
November 6, 1941	Special Meeting Board of Stockholders (by-laws revised)
December 12, 1941	Special Meeting Stockholders (by-laws revised)
May 15, 1944	Special Adjourned Meeting Stockholders (Certificate of Incorporation amended)
March 4, 1947	Special Meeting Stockholders (amended Certificate of Incorporation)
April 8, 1947	Regular Meeting Board of Directors (blank agreement form)
January 5, 1949	Report to the Stockholders by the President
June 14, 1949	Regular Meeting Board of Directors (Profit & Loss Statement -US & Canada, Foreign Profit & Loss statement, Home Office Daily Bank Balance as of June 13, 1949)
June 27, 1949	Annual Meeting Stockholders (Missing)
December 16, 1949	Foreign Operations Report (Per resolution passed at Regular Board Meeting 11/25/49)
March 23, 1950	Regular Meeting Board of Directors (Includes Plan of Liquidation)
June 29, 1950	Special Meeting Board of Directors (Includes Proposal for adquisition of Treasury Stock of UAC)
December 19, 1950	Memorandum to Stockholders
December 21, 1950	Letter from Frank L. McNamee to Gov. Paul V. McNutt
January 4, 1951	President's Report (Includes, Profit & Loss Statements report to the President of Foreign Department for 1950 Miscellaneous reports and charts)

ADOPTED	FILED	DESCRIPTION
April 17, 1919	April 17, 1919	Certificate of Incorporation, printed copy
April 17, 1919	April 17, 1919	Certificate of Incorporation, typed copy
December 5, 1927	December 12, 1927	Certificate of Amendment, typed copy
November 30, 1929	December 9, 1929	Certificate of Retirement of Preferred Stock, typed copy
July 1936		By-laws as Amended, typed copy
December 2, 1936	December 10, 1936	Certificate of Amendment, certified copy signed
December 2, 1936	December 10, 1936	Certificate of Reduction of Capital, certified copy signed
December 11, 1936	December 18, 1936	Certificate of Amendment, typed copy conformed
March 22, 1937	April 1, 1937	Certificate of Amendment, certified copy
March 22, 1937		Certificate of Incorporation as Amended, typed copy
May 15, 1944	May 16, 1944	Certificate of Amendment, certified copy signed
May 15, 1944		Certificate of Incorporation as Amended, mimeographed copy
March 7, 1947	March 12, 1947	Certificate of Amendment, certified copy signed
March 7, 1947		Certificate of Incorporation as Amended, typed copy
March 7, 1947		Certificate of Incorporation as Amended, printed copy