block booking

The hall is available to the public by casual and block bookings.

There are likely to be a lot of block bookings during the Olympics, so the sooner you book a table, the better.

You stand for hours, without a girdle, because of block bookings and not enough chairs.

In the summer vacation the residence is open for use by conferences and block bookings.

Block booking is a system of selling multiple films to a theater as a unit.

The report disputed the charges, and denied that it practiced block booking.

The hall is available for casual use by members of the public in addition to sports clubs who have block bookings throughout the year.

Without control over block booking, studios feared that they could no longer force theaters to buy up to 400 movies each year.

Dress is formal and block bookings are available.

Soon the block booking agents will be letting hotels know exactly how many rooms they will need.

The case was thrown out, but the existence of "block booking" as it is called, is often debated in the industry.

But due to block booking, it was not shown in New York until July 21, 1926.

Block booking and blind bidding were at the heart of the practices charged as illegally monopolistic.

Such were the benefits of having a huge theater chain to fill, and of block booking to persuade other chains to go along.

For example, it does not apply where airlines make block bookings of hotel accommodation for crew stopovers.

In the early 1940s, legal pressure forced the studios to replace seasonal block booking with packages generally limited to five pictures.

Block booking and blind bidding meant that the majors didn't have to worry over much about the quality of these B pictures:

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But he also - year in, year out - made major musical and theatrical productions available to working-class audiences through a system of subsidized block bookings.

If internal flights or water/rail transport are required during the State Visit, then block bookings are made with the media being responsible for payment.

The substantial rise in television's popularity during the 1950s can be largely attributed to the Supreme Court's decision to outlaw block booking.

The Department of Justice initiated action against eight leading movie distributors, including Fox, as long ago as 1938 to halt block booking.

But his gaze was calm and businesslike, and he said only, 'I understand you wish to make a block booking for a wedding.'

Block booking became standard practice: to get access to a studio's attractive A pictures, many theaters were obliged to rent the company's entire output for a season.

'It's a block booking.