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The Kinematograph Year Book.
into consideration so that some of the more obvious anomalies may be removed and the general application of the Act may be brought into line with current needs.
WHILE the greater part of the C.E.A.'s work has been of a political nature, much practical good has been done, or is being done, at the instance of the general membership. As the first talking equipment was installed on a ten-years' lease, a great number of contracts are falling due for renewal, and at the end of the year negotiations were being carried on which, it is hoped, would result in better terms for the exhibitor.
One branch raised the point, too, of the condition of prints as received at the kinema, and there is no doubt that complaints were justified. Exactly how much benefit was derived from the elaborate national census of films that was organised is as yet hard to say, but there certainly must have been some advantage, indirect if not direct, in bringing this particular grievance to the surface and having it officially examined. There is, after all, some point in securing official recognition of the fact that the perfectly projected picture on the screen is an essential, compared with which practically all the difficult moves in the political game are completely insignificant.
AND while we are on the subject of the severely practical developments of the Trade, I think credit should be given to its leaders — provincial as well as London — who have engineered a widespread series of agreements with the National Association of Theatrical and Kinema Employees.
This long-overdue settlement will bring the Industry at last into a position which its great importance should have secured many years ago. It is now shaking off the casual labour methods of its fairground ancestry, and its employees are, or can be, organised on lines similar to those of other established businesses.
There, is still some distance to go, but the stabilising effect that follows upon collective agreements, with both sides really representative, must be beneficial to the trade as a whole, and the days when lightning strikes may cause temporary dislocation are, I hope, gone never to return.
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