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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5a/Convention_City_FilmPoster.jpeg/220px-Convention_City_FilmPoster.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="384" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5a/Convention_City_FilmPoster.jpeg 1.5x" data-file-width="239" data-file-height="417" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Directed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Archie_Mayo" title="Archie Mayo">Archie Mayo</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Screenplay by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Lord_(screenwriter)" title="Robert Lord (screenwriter)">Robert Lord</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Story by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Peter_Milne_(screenwriter)" title="Peter Milne (screenwriter)">Peter Milne</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Produced by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Blanke" title="Henry Blanke">Henry Blanke</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Starring</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Joan_Blondell" title="Joan Blondell">Joan Blondell</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Guy_Kibbee" title="Guy Kibbee">Guy Kibbee</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Dick_Powell" title="Dick Powell">Dick Powell</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Mary_Astor" title="Mary Astor">Mary Astor</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Adolphe_Menjou" title="Adolphe Menjou">Adolphe Menjou</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Cinematography</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/William_Rees_(cinematographer)" title="William Rees (cinematographer)">William Rees</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Edited by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Owen_Marks" title="Owen Marks">Owen Marks</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Production<br />company</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="vertical-align: middle;"><a href="/wiki/First_National_Pictures" title="First National Pictures">First National Pictures</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Distributed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Warner_Bros._Pictures,_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.">Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; white-space: normal;">Release date</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist film-date"> <ul><li>December 14, 1933<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1933-12-14</span>)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; white-space: normal;">Running time</div></th><td class="infobox-data">69 minutes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Budget</th><td class="infobox-data">$239,000</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Convention City</b></i> is a 1933 American <a href="/wiki/Pre-Code_Hollywood" title="Pre-Code Hollywood">pre-Code</a> <a href="/wiki/Sex_comedy" title="Sex comedy">sex comedy</a> film directed by <a href="/wiki/Archie_Mayo" title="Archie Mayo">Archie Mayo</a>, and starring <a href="/wiki/Joan_Blondell" title="Joan Blondell">Joan Blondell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Guy_Kibbee" title="Guy Kibbee">Guy Kibbee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dick_Powell" title="Dick Powell">Dick Powell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mary_Astor" title="Mary Astor">Mary Astor</a> and <a href="/wiki/Adolphe_Menjou" title="Adolphe Menjou">Adolphe Menjou</a>. The film was produced by <a href="/wiki/Henry_Blanke" title="Henry Blanke">Henry Blanke</a> and <a href="/wiki/First_National_Pictures" title="First National Pictures">First National Pictures</a> and distributed by <a href="/wiki/Warner_Bros." title="Warner Bros.">Warner Bros.</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Due to its racy content, <i>Convention City</i> was held from circulation after the <a href="/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code" class="mw-redirect" title="Motion Picture Production Code">Motion Picture Production Code</a> was enacted in 1934. Prints were subsequently ordered to be destroyed by studio head <a href="/wiki/Jack_L._Warner" title="Jack L. Warner">Jack L. Warner</a>. The film is considered <a href="/wiki/Lost_film" title="Lost film">lost</a> and has become one of the more coveted lost films because of its reported racy content.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot">Plot</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convention_City&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Plot"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The plot revolves around the convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_City" class="mw-redirect" title="Atlantic City">Atlantic City</a>. Throughout the film, the employees of Honeywell Rubber are mainly concerned with drinking and sex. President J.B. Honeywell (<a href="/wiki/Grant_Mitchell_(actor)" title="Grant Mitchell (actor)">Grant Mitchell</a>) is to choose a new company salesmanager. T.R. Kent (<a href="/wiki/Adolphe_Menjou" title="Adolphe Menjou">Adolphe Menjou</a>) and George Ellerbe (<a href="/wiki/Guy_Kibbee" title="Guy Kibbee">Guy Kibbee</a>) are two salesmen who both want the job. However, they both get into trouble: T.R. is discredited when jealous saleswoman Arlene Dale (<a href="/wiki/Mary_Astor" title="Mary Astor">Mary Astor</a>) interferes with his attempted seduction of Honeywell's daughter Claire (<a href="/wiki/Patricia_Ellis" title="Patricia Ellis">Patricia Ellis</a>) and George attempts to seduce Nancy Lorraine (<a href="/wiki/Joan_Blondell" title="Joan Blondell">Joan Blondell</a>). The position of sales manager is bestowed upon a drunken employee as a bribe after he catches J.B. about to visit "Daisy La Rue, Exterminator".<sup id="cite_ref-time_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-time-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cast">Cast</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convention_City&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Cast"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joan_Blondell" title="Joan Blondell">Joan Blondell</a> as Nancy Lorraine</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adolphe_Menjou" title="Adolphe Menjou">Adolphe Menjou</a> as T.R. (Ted) Kent</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dick_Powell" title="Dick Powell">Dick Powell</a> as Jerry Ford</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Astor" title="Mary Astor">Mary Astor</a> as Arlene Dale</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guy_Kibbee" title="Guy Kibbee">Guy Kibbee</a> as George Ellerbe</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_McHugh" title="Frank McHugh">Frank McHugh</a> as Will Goodwin</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patricia_Ellis" title="Patricia Ellis">Patricia Ellis</a> as Claire Honeywell</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruth_Donnelly" title="Ruth Donnelly">Ruth Donnelly</a> as Mrs. Ellerbe</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Herbert" title="Hugh Herbert">Hugh Herbert</a> as Hotstetter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grant_Mitchell_(actor)" title="Grant Mitchell (actor)">Grant Mitchell</a> as J.B. Honeywell</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egon_Brecher" title="Egon Brecher">Egon Brecher</a> as Zorb</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hobart_Cavanaugh" title="Hobart Cavanaugh">Hobart Cavanaugh</a> as Wendell Orchard</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sheila_Terry_(actress)" title="Sheila Terry (actress)">Sheila Terry</a> as Mrs. Kent</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gordon_Westcott" title="Gordon Westcott">Gordon Westcott</a> as Phil Lorraine / Frank Wilson</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_C._Bradley_(actor)" title="Harry C. Bradley (actor)">Harry C. Bradley</a> as Graham</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_S._Hinds" title="Samuel S. Hinds">Samuel S. Hinds</a> as McAllister</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Production">Production</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convention_City&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Production"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During production, the film faced censorship problems from <a href="/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Motion Picture Association of America">Motion Picture Association of America</a> (MPPDA) due to its risque content and dialogue. Joan Blondell later said, "We were forever doing things among ourselves with <a href="/wiki/Double_entendre" title="Double entendre">double meanings</a>. Finally, they would have people in the front office just watch for what we'd say off-color."<sup id="cite_ref-kennedy_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kennedy-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Several lines were ordered to be removed by the MPPDA censors including: </p> <blockquote><p>No, but it won't be marriage. I'll guarantee you that. A traveling salesman needs a wife like a baby needs a box of matches. </p><p>Now you take off that dress and I'll take off my toupee, huh! </p><p> Girl's voice: 'Listen, sister, if they tire you, you better leave town before the Hercules Tool Company gets here.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>In a studio memo, <a href="/wiki/Jack_L._Warner" title="Jack L. Warner">Jack L. Warner</a> warned producer <a href="/wiki/Hal_Wallis" class="mw-redirect" title="Hal Wallis">Hal Wallis</a> that he may be going too far in the costuming: </p> <blockquote><p>We must put brassieres on Joan Blondell and make her cover up her breasts because, otherwise, we are going to have these pictures stopped in a lot of places. I believe in showing their forms but, for Lord's sake, don't let those bulbs stick out.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Script changes, suggested by the chair of the Motion Picture Division of the State of New York Department of Education Dr. James Wingate and Jason S. Joy, director of the Studio Relations Committee, and production head Hal Wallis were nominally incorporated into the script.<sup id="cite_ref-vieira1_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vieira1-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Pre-Code_era_scenes">Pre-Code era scenes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convention_City&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Pre-Code era scenes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Empty_section plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-content" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="[icon]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/20px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/30px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/40px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="44" data-file-height="31" /></a></span></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span"><b>This section is empty.</b> You can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Convention_City&action=edit&section=">adding to it</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">March 2017</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convention_City&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Critical_reviews">Critical reviews</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convention_City&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Critical reviews"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dr. James Wingate, chair of the Motion Picture Division of the State of New York Department of Education — which oversaw the state's censorship board — described it as "a pretty rowdy picture, dealing largely with drunkenness, blackmail, and lechery, and without any particularly sympathetic characters or elements."<sup id="cite_ref-vieira_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vieira-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a></i> magazine said that, "<i>Convention City</i> is a glib, disorganized batch of footnotes on a familiar aspect of U.S. business." and that "Convention City is adumbrated with many a drinking scene, a company song ("Oh, Honeywell" to the tune of "<a href="/wiki/My_Maryland" title="My Maryland">My Maryland</a>"), and some quips which may cause some cinemagoers to wonder what <a href="/wiki/Will_H._Hays" title="Will H. Hays">Will Hays</a> is doing."<sup id="cite_ref-time_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-time-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> said that, "Several of the jokes need a subterranean mind to be correctly understood. An accurate appraisal of <i>Convention City</i> should include the information that the <a href="/wiki/Strand_Theatre_(Brooklyn)" title="Strand Theatre (Brooklyn)">Strand</a>'s audiences laughed long and loud." The <i>Times</i> also praised <a href="/wiki/Adolphe_Menjou" title="Adolphe Menjou">Adolphe Menjou</a>'s performance while finding Joan Blondell's performances to be getting tiresome as she was playing the same irreverent character in her films.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Box_office">Box office</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convention_City&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Box office"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Convention City</i> cost $239,000 to produce, and earned $384,000 in domestic revenue and $138,000 from foreign release, for an eventual profit of $53,000.<sup id="cite_ref-mcelwee_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mcelwee-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Preservation_status">Preservation status</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convention_City&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Preservation status"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Due to the lewdness of the film and lack of influence of the Studio Relations Committee, which was supposed to control objectionable content, <i>Convention City</i> and films like it led to the enforcement of the <a href="/wiki/Production_Code" class="mw-redirect" title="Production Code">Production Code</a>, overseen by <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Breen" title="Joseph Breen">Joseph Breen</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-vieira_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vieira-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The film's producer, Henry Blanke, later said, "...Single-handedly I brought on the whole Code. Yeah. Ask Joe Breen. He'll tell you. Ask him about Convention City."<sup id="cite_ref-kennedy_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kennedy-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Code had been created in 1930 at the beginning of the <a href="/wiki/Depression_era" class="mw-redirect" title="Depression era">Depression</a>, but was rarely enforced as financially strapped studios often overlooked its authority in the desire to make more risque pictures that were good box office.<sup id="cite_ref-vieira_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vieira-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As a result of the Code, the film was taken out of circulation when its theatre run ended.<sup id="cite_ref-vieira_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vieira-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The controversy surrounding the film prompted exhibitors and theatre convention organizers to request the film.<sup id="cite_ref-kennedy_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kennedy-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1936, Warners attempted to re-release <i>Convention City</i> in a censored form, but Breen deemed it beyond redemption and would not grant it the seal of approval needed for it to be shown in theatres. Warners then reportedly ordered that the film be destroyed.<sup id="cite_ref-vieira_9-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vieira-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, Ron Hutchinson, the editor of the newsletter <i>The Vitaphone Project</i>, discovered that a print of the film was screened in 1937, nearly three years after the ban had been enacted, indicating that at least one print had not been taken out of circulation.<sup id="cite_ref-hutchinson_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hutchinson-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Further evidence that not all prints had been seized and destroyed was found in the August 29, 1942, edition of the Spanish newspaper <i><a href="/wiki/ABC_(newspaper)" title="ABC (newspaper)">ABC</a></i>. According to an advertisement, the film (known as <i> ¡Que Semana!</i> in Spanish) was being screened at the <a href="/wiki/Mu%C3%B1oz_Seca_Theater" title="Muñoz Seca Theater">Muñoz Seca Theater</a> in <a href="/wiki/Madrid" title="Madrid">Madrid</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the late 1940s and 1950s, Warner Bros. destroyed many of its negatives due to <a href="/wiki/Nitrate_film" class="mw-redirect" title="Nitrate film">nitrate film</a> decomposition. Studio records indicate that the negative of <i>Convention City</i> and filmography pre-1931 was marked "Junked 12/27/48" (December 27, 1948).<sup id="cite_ref-mcelwee_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mcelwee-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> No prints of the film are known to currently exist, though rumors that private collectors own foreign prints have continued to surface as late as 1999. However, it was also re-copyrighted by <a href="/wiki/United_Artists_Associated" class="mw-redirect" title="United Artists Associated">United Artists Associated</a> in 1963.<sup id="cite_ref-hutchinson_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hutchinson-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The original screenplay still survives in the Warner Bros. script archives. In March 1994, a pre-Code film festival was held in <a href="/wiki/South_Village" title="South Village">South Village</a>. Along with the films screened, there was a dramatic reading of the screenplay for <i>Convention City</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convention_City&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_lost_films" title="List of lost films">List of lost films</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convention_City&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFParish1992" class="citation book cs1">Parish, James Robert (1992). <i>Prostitution in Hollywood Films: Plots, Critiques, Casts, and Credits For 389 Theatrical and Made-For-Television Releases</i>. 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