Screen Guilds Magazine (August 1935)

- - - - Day Player Contracts date of termination of engagement, but Producer not bound thereby. (27) TERMINATION. Producer may terminate contract: (a) More than 30 days prior to starting date and be relieved of all liability; (b) Within 30 days of starting date or any time there¬ after and pay for services rendered plus one week’s compensation on pay¬ ment of which Producer is relieved of further liability subject to paragraphs 6 (minimum guarantee), 28 (illness), and 29 (emergency). (28) ILLNESS. Producer need pay no salary while you are incapacitated, by illness or otherwise, and Producer has option to terminate contract. (29) EMERGENCY, SUSPEN¬ SION, OR TERMINATION. If pro¬ duction is suspended by fire, strike, act of God, etc. no salary for first week of suspension. If production suspended by illness of other member of cast or director, full salary for first week. Dur¬ ing first week’s suspension Producer must notify you in writing if produc¬ tion will be abandoned or further sus¬ pended—if further suspended, half sal¬ ary for such further suspension. After five weeks’ suspension you may terminate unless Producer pays full salary. Producer may terminate any time after commencement of suspension. If Producer terminates because of ill¬ ness of member of cast or director, Pro¬ ducer must pay you for services rend¬ ered plus one week’s salary. If P r0 " ducer terminates because of fire, act ot God, etc., Producer only obligated to pay balance due you for services rend¬ ered. (30) RESUMED PRODUCTION AFTER TERMINATION. If Produc¬ er terminates pursuant to 29 (emerg¬ ency) , and if at any time more than 5 weeks after such termination Producer desires to resume production, Producer must notify you and you agree, unless otherwise employed, to resume work as and when Producer requests. If other¬ wise employed you agree to co-operate with Producer so that your services will be available. If production is resumed within 6 months of termination, your salary shall be at same rate and payable only from date of recommencement ot services. (31) RETAKES, ETC. If after ex¬ piration of contract Producer needs yon for retakes, added scenes, etc., yon August, 1953 agree, unless otherwise employed, to All AtlCtlySlS render services as and when Producer requests—if otherwise employed to co¬ operate on availability. If retakes, etc., commence within 6 mpnths after expira¬ tion of contract, salary to be at same rate payable only for days you are ac¬ tually employed. If Producer guaran¬ tees you one week's salary in connection with said retakes, etc., salary shall be paid from time your services are first rendered in said retakes, etc., until com¬ pletion of your services in same. Summary of Day Player Rules (1) EIGHT HOUR DAY. The sal¬ ary is paid for 8 hours of work; full pay if less than 8 hours work required. One-eighth daily salary for each hour of overtime. (2) HOURS OF WORK. Hours of work computed from time you are re¬ quired by producer to be and are made up and ready on set; continuously there¬ after until you are dismissed for day. If you are working at midnight, hours of work computed until you are dis¬ missed after midnight; hours of work for next day computed from time you are next required to be and are made up and ready on the set. (3) MEAL PERIODS. Meal periods not included in computing hours of em¬ ployment. Minimum meal period V 2 hour, maximum IV 2 hours; first mea period not later than 5y 2 hours after you are required to be and are made up and ready on the set. (4) TRAVEL TIME. Producer pays for 1/2 of time actually consumed m travelling to and from location on basis of ti of daily work for each 2 hours or fraction thereof. Travel time compen¬ sation need not exceed 1 full day s pay in any 24 hours. You are to be paid for every day on location unless there occurs a 7th day on which you do not work Whenever transportation to lo¬ cation is not provided you are to re¬ ceive the excess of the cost of transpor¬ tation to location over the cost of trans¬ portation to the studio. (5) RECALL AFTER DISMISSAL. Your employment shall be consecutive, Sundays and holidays excepted, unless your services are required on Sundays and holidays. Producer has right to terminate engagement at any time, l within 2 weeks after such termination producer recalls you (for any purpose other than retakes and the like) your compensation shall be paid for the in- tervening period between the date ot earlier termination and the date of re¬ call, except for such days during such intervening period when yon were ill, incapacitated or employed. If you are ill incapacitated, or otherwise employed when recalled, then producer’s obliga¬ tion to pay intervening period salary shall terminate. If you are recalled subsequent to 2 weeks after earlier term¬ ination, producer not obligated to pay intervening period salary, even though attempt may have been made to recall you within 2 week period. (6) RETAKES. Compensation for services in connection with retakes, added scenes, sound, track, process shots, transparencies, trick shots, trailers, changes and foreign versions payable only for days of actual employment. It such services are commenced within b months of prior termination, compensa¬ tion shall be at original rate. (7) CONVERSION TO WEEKLY BASIS. As you will see from (9) and (10) hereafter, at the time you are em¬ ployed you get a card giving both your daily salary and your weekly salary. The purpose of specifying a weekly sal¬ ary when you are a day player is that the producer under this rule has the option to change you to a weekly player, subject to the Free Lance Contract at the weekly salary on the card, by notice in writing at any time. He may by the notice make the change retroactive to seven days before the time he mailed the letter, telegraphed you, or handed you the notice. You are a day player up to the time of the notice or the retroactive date specified in it; after that you are a weekly player. However, you retain any overtime before the actual date of con¬ version. If your engagement has been terminated, and you have been recalled, the producer may change your 'basis retroactively with the seven day privi¬ lege to him, counting out the time be- tweeen termination and recall. In case there has been a termination and a re¬ call within two weeks, and then the pro¬ ducer changes you to a weekly player, for the period between termination and recall, you get paid at the weekly and not the daily rate. (Continued on Page 20) .5