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MOTION PIOTUEE COMMISSION. 157 Mr. ScHECHTER. Maniifactuied ? Mr. ToAVNER. Yes. Mr. ScHECKTER. I do not think more than 5 or 10 per cent is manufactured in New York; about 75 per cent is manufactured in California and then sent to New York, where the principal manu- facturers are, and where they are printed. You see, the climatic conditions are most favorable in California and the surrounding country there, so that they send all of the actors out there; the scenario is sent there, and then the picture is produced and sent to New York, where the negative is shown and either approved or dis- approved by the directors of the companies and then printed right in New York or the surrounding vicinity. Mr. Towner. Let me see, you call the taking of the pictures what ? Mr. ScHECHTEte. Producing. Mr. Towner. You call that producing rather than the making of the duplicate films ? Mr. ScHECHTER. No; I would call that the producing. We do not make the films themselves; that is, the thing on which the picture is printed; we do not make that. Mr. Tow^NER. I mean the making of the duplicate films. Mr. ScHECHTER. That is just the printing process. Mr. Towner. That, you say, is mainly done in New York ? Mr. ScHECHTER. Ycs, sir; or in the vicinity. Mr. Tow'NER. Of course this national law, if it is passed, could not affect the pictures that are produced in any State for exhibition in that State or for use in that State in any manner or form whatever, because the business would not be interstate; it would be strictly intra- state. Now, what I am trying to get at is what effect this bill would probably have upon exhibitions in New York and in New York State. Mr. ScHECHTER. There is n(tt a film produced for strict use in NcAv York State or for use in any one State. It would simply be impossible to do that because you could not secure the necessary revenue from that film. The film tliat is produced in California and then sent to New York for printing, or the film that is produced in Colorado and then sent to New York or vicinity for printing is gotten out to be sent all over ilie country in order to gain an ade- quate revenue. Mr. ToAVNER. In order to make it pay ? Mr. ScHECHTER. Ycs. sir. Mr. Towner. Your contention is that no film is produced for ex- hibition merely in the State of its production? Mr. ScHECHTER. Nevcr. Mr. Towner. And therefore you contention would be that all of the business would practically be affected by the passage of this act? Mr. ScHECHTER. Absolutely. As I said, all of the films are manu- factured for interstate business. The Chairman. How many of these films could be examined dur- ing the day by such a commission as is provided for in this bill? Mr. ScHECHTER. I figure that no person could sit more than four hours a day in viewing films. It is an awful strain upon the eyes. I know that ordinarily people say two hours and three hours would be a considerable time, but I will figure it at four hours as the maximum. A reel of film takes about 15 or 16 minutes to run; that 44072—No. 2—14 7