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Here is a personal example reflective of this complexity. A few years ago, I directed a motion picture called "Rambling Rose" about the awakening of human love. It was not a movie about sex, but one sexual scene was critical to the film's plot and the development of its main characters.
The airline distributors simply cut the scene out of the movie, turning the story into gibberish. I had offered to trim the scene, but my offer was refused. This happened at Academy Award time when the film was being considered for nominations. The reputations of the actors, the writer, and my own reputation were at stake.
The copyright holder, Carrolco, insisted in defense of the movie that the altered version carry a label laying out the alterations, but many airlines refuse to buy movies with restrictive labels. Here we have the copyright holder insisting on a label and distributors and exhibitors turning thumbs down.
This is an example of the complexity in the world of production and distribution and the reason why only a national law can address the matter of labeling.
Let me briefly add the endorsement of the Directors Guild to both of the other measures under review today, copyright extension and the reauthorization of the National Film Preservation Act.
As the Europeans move ahead to extend copyright terms, we need to do the same thing as a matter of equity and economics.
We enthusiastically support reauthorization of the Film Preservation Act, particularly since the act grew out of our own early lobbying efforts. With funding for film preservation choked off at the National Endowment for the Arts, it is more important than ever that the Library of Congress continues to hoist the banner for preservation efforts.
Mr. Chairman, I am sure this hearing is a first, taking testimony on three different bills that affect directly, though in disparate ways, the motion picture industry. I take it as a sign that Congress now recognizes the complexity of the economic, artistic, and cultural issues related to motion pictures.
In our view, all of these measures advance either a sense of economic fairness related to movies or advance their importance in the cultural sphere. The most elemental advance would be to end deception in the U.S. marketplace and tell consumers when the movie they are watching has been altered. This stamp of authenticity is a small step to take to enhance respect for our greatest art form.
And I want to personally applaud Mr. Bono for his concern for the creators of songs which I think is very similar to our concern for the creators of film, our film artists,
I just have three things that I would request, Mr. Chairman, to be placed into the record:
The first is the position paper supporting the Film Disclosure Act by the American Cinema Editors and by the Motion Picture Editors Guild.
The second is a short letter to you and the committee from Jimmy Stewart supporting H.R. 1248. Mr. Stewart has been con