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SWG IN 1950
By KARL TUNBERG
President
HE KEYSTONE of the Screen Writers' Guild policy during 1950 has been an effort to negotiate a new minimum basic agreement with the producing companies. Unfortunately, this negotiation has not been concluded successfully, and therefore our role during the coming year will continue to be to arrive at some kind of workable agreement between ourselves and the producing companies.
We are determined that this agreement will reflect more accurately the realistic position of the writer in Hollywood. We feel that the present contract, as well as many present usages and customs in the industry, reflect unrealistically the writer's actual contribution to the finished picture.
Writers feel that not onlv the quality of present day pictures but the real importance of the writer, who more and more is becoming the director and producer— even the head of production, proves our point. We realize, of course, that along with increased recogni
tion of our position we must accept increased responsibility.
The Guild therefore will continue to make every effort to contribute to a healthy and profitable motion picture industry and to encourage both writers and the industry in ^eneral to accept their responsibility in the crisis of the pre-ent day business world. Our activities in the Motion Picture Industry Council and in cooperating with UNESCO toward reform of copyright legislation will ijear this out.
SAG IN 1950
By JOHN DALES. JR.
Executive Secretary
HE SCREEN ACTORS GUILD in 1950 continued to play a leading role in many and varied constructive activities for the general good of the entire motion picture industry. Ever since the Guild's founding in 1933, its board of directors has recognized the vast difference between mere "publicity" and real "public relations." The Guild at all times has an active public relations program to promote the welfare and best interests of its members and our industry as a whole.
Typical of Screen .\ctors Guild leadership in this respect was the drive which rid Hollywood and the City of Los .Angeles of new type talent racketeers who were posing as film producers and defrauding thousands of gullible citizens. Working through the Motion Picture Industry Council, the Guild enlisted the aid of management and public officials in a drive against the talent sharks and succeeded in having many of them arrested and convicted on various felony and misdemeanor charges.
Then there is the Guild's continuing efi^ort to educate all motion picture actors to help promote current pictures and the industry
generally whenever opportunity arises, particularly in appearances in other mediums of communication such as radio and television. The Guild urges its members to "help sell pictures and the picture industry."
In television. Screen .\ctors Guild is waging a successful fight to protect the interests of the motion picture actors against encroachment by a live talent union. This new union. Television .Authority, says that performers in live television shows should have the say as to what wages and conditions should be for actors in televised motion pictures.
To the Guild, a motion picture is a motion picture, whether it be exhibited in a theater.
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