Block booking

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• Block booking — is a system of selling multiple films to a theater as a unit. Block booking was the prevailing practice among Hollywood s major studios from the turn of the 1930s through the late 1940s, when it was outlawed by a Supreme Court decision. Under… …   Wikipedia

• block booking — ➔ booking * * * block booking UK US noun [C] COMMERCE ► a large number of tickets for a particular event, hotel, flight, etc. that are sold to one person or organization: »Discounts are offered for block bookings …   Financial and business terms

• Block Booking — Le Block booking (en français : réservation en bloc) est une technique de marketing cinématographique inventée par les américains dans les années 1920 pour obliger les exploitants de salle de cinéma à louer un lot de films, le plus en vu… …   Wikipédia en Français

• block booking — noun : the licensing for exhibition of motion picture films in a block or group, the licensee being compelled to take an entire group of films or none * * * a practice among motion picture distributors of contracting with an exhibitor to show a… …   Useful english dictionary

• block booking — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms block booking : singular block booking plural block bookings an agreement to buy a large number of tickets at one time for a concert, play etc …   English dictionary

• block booking — /blɒk bυkɪŋ/ noun booking of several seats or rooms at the same time ● The company has a block booking for twenty seats on the plane or for ten rooms at the hotel …   Dictionary of banking and finance

• block booking — The booking of moving pictures in a theater by the job lot, without selection of particular pictures by the proprietor of the theater …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• block booking — a practice among motion picture distributors of contracting with an exhibitor to show a predetermined series of films. [1920 25] * * * …   Universalium

• block-booking — The practice of licensing or offering for license one motion picture feature or group of features on condition that exhibitor will also license another feature or group of features released by distributor during a given period. U. S. v. Paramount …   Black's law dictionary

• block-booking — The practice of licensing or offering for license one motion picture feature or group of features on condition that exhibitor will also license another feature or group of features released by distributor during a given period. U. S. v. Paramount …   Black's law dictionary