Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films and personalities scrapbooks

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unitid

{"value"=>"*ZC-316", "type"=>"local_call"}

{"value"=>"21411", "type"=>"local_mss"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films and personalities scrapbooks"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1920-1944", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1920/1944"}

physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"162 volumes on 19 reels of microfilm and one oversized box"}], "supress_display"=>true}

date_inclusive_start

1920

date_inclusive_end

1944

origination

{"value"=>"Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer", "type"=>"corpname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, a leading American film production company, was established in 1924, an amalgam of three older production companies: Metro Pictures Corporation, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures, and was under the corporate control of the exhibiting concern, Loew's Inc.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

arrangement

{"value"=>"Arranged in three series: Series I. Personalities; Series II. Films by title; Series III. Assorted subjects"}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>Collection consists entirely of clippings from MGM's heyday. The scrapbooks were created by Howard Dietz, librettist and writer, who was director of publicity and advertising for MGM and before that, for Goldwyn Pictures.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

acqinfo

{"materials"=>"Scrapbooks of clippings on microfilm", "extent"=>"19 o"}

originalsloc

{"value"=>"<p>Originals were discarded after filming</p>"}

note

{"value"=>"<p>Three letters and nine photographs were removed from the scrapbooks before filming. One scrapbook was never filmed and remains in its original form. These items make up the contents of the oversized box (*T-MSS 1997-038)</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

keydate

1920

prefercite

{"value"=>"Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films and personalities scrapbooks, Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>"Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, a leading American film production company, was established in 1924, an amalgam of three older production companies: Metro Pictures Corporation, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures, and was under the corporate control of the exhibiting concern, Loew's Inc. Collection consists entirely of clippings from MGM's heyday. The scrapbooks were created by Howard Dietz, librettist and writer, who was director of publicity and advertising for MGM and before that, for Goldwyn Pictures.", "generated"=>true}

extent_statement

162 volumes on 19 reels of microfilm and one oversized box

date_start

1920

date_end

1944

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