Summary Information

Title: United Artists Corporation Records
Inclusive Dates: 1918-1969

Creator:

• United Artists Corporation

Call Number: U.S. Mss 99AN

Quantity: approximately 687.0 cubic feet, 374 reels of microfilm (35 mm), and 5090 films

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:

Records of United Artists Corporation (UA) and its subsidiaries Warner Bros. Pictures, Monogram Pictures, Ziv-TV, Eagle-Lion, Producers Releasing Corporation, and Wanger Productions as well as Vitaphone shorts. Contains corporate records, legal records, executive records, financial records, advertising files, sales records, and films. Corporate records, which include correspondence, reports, financial and legal records, and advertising materials, relate almost entirely to the first ownership and more particularly to operations during the 1930s and 1940s. Although few documents directly relate to the original partners, the collection offers excellent files on the legal, financial, sales, and advertising aspects of distribution. There are production files and scripts for only a few UA releases and no UA films in the collection, as these records belonged to their producers. Films, scripts, and related papers are present, however, in the extensive purchased film library which comprises the remainder of the collection.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-us0099an

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