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Word: hallroom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...woodsy spot on upper Manhattan Island convinced them that a cheap picture can be made to yield as high a boxoffice return as an expensive one. In 1920 they began their career on Hollywood's "Poverty Row'' with a series of shorts called The Hallroom Boys. Still pinching pennies, they followed that with Screen Snapshots, a particularly offensive scrapreel dealing with the home life of cinemactors. By 1922 they were turning out feature pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Corporations | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

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