The Screen Guilds’ Magazine (November 1934)

28 The Screen Guilds’ Magazine Paul Curtis Auctioneer % Beverly Galleries 3578 Wilshire Boulevard FEderal 5544 - FEderal 8812 Complete stock high grade used cars. Herbert R. Pulver DODGE & PLYMOUTH IN HOLLYWOOD 6250 Hollywood Boulevard :C . HI llside 4186 Finest Service Of All Dodge and Plymouths IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this agreement the day and year first above written. RULE VI. Contract Players The following regulations shall govern the making of all contracts hereafter entered into between producers and contract players: (A) No contract shall provide for a sus¬ pension of the contract or a lay-off period during the term of the contract at the option of the producer unless the provision conforms to the following requirements: (a) Nofice of suspension of lay-off must be in writing. (b) If an option of suspension is granted the producer by reason of laws, strikes, failure * to obtain materials, fires, acts of God or a pub¬ lic enemy, or similar causes, the producer shall not have a longer period of suspension than one week for each three months of the contract,at no pay to the actor, and one week for each three months of the contract at half pay. The contract may provide for suspension of the contract for a longer period in such cases at the option of the producer, if the producer during such longer periods pays the actor full salary. . (c) If an option of suspension or lay-ott is granted the producer for other reasons or at the will of the producer, such suspensions or lay-offs may not be provided except in con¬ formity to the following: (1 ) The suspension or lay-off periods must not total over twelve weeks in any contract for a year, and a proportionate time for longer or shorter contacts. (2) Each lay-off or suspension must be for a minimum of seven days. (3) The actor shall not be on call during any lay-off or suspension, and shall not be re¬ quired or asked to do any work. Without lim¬ iting the generality of the foregoing, work in- j eludes wardrobe fittings, stills, tests, publicity appearances, and anything requiring the actor s time or presence. (d) A period at or before the beginning or end of a contract during which an actor is re¬ quired to render services for nothing or for less than the salary which the contract specifies shall be deemed a lay-off period. (e) In calculating the length of a contract, unexercised options granted a producer for the actor's services shall not be considered. Each option when exercised shall be considered a new contract. (B) Every contract shall contain an arbitra¬ tion clause substantially the same as para¬ graph (16) of the Minimum Standard Con¬ tract for Free Lance Actors. (C) No contract shall contain a provision regarding retakes and the like after the ex¬ piration of the term of the contract, unless the provision is as favorable to the actor as the provision concerning the same in paragraph (2) of the Minimum Standard Contract for Free Lance Actors. (D) No contract shall contain a provision regarding "dubbing" or use of a double, unless the provision is as favorable to the actor as the provision concerning the same in paragraph (5) of the Minimum Standard Contract for Free Lance Actors. (E) Every contract shall contain a provision concerning travel pay substantially the same as the provision concerning the same in para¬ graph (6) of the Minimum Standard Contract for Free Lance Actors. (F) Every contract shall contain a provision regarding working on location at the beginning or end of the contract as favorable to the actor as the provision concerning the same in para¬ graph (10) of the Minimum Standard Con¬ tract for Free Lance Actors. (G) Every contract shall provide that the actor's services may not be assigned or loaned to any person or corporation other than the producer, without the actor's written consent given at or near the time of the contemplated loan. (H) Every contract shall provide that the actor shall not be required to act in more than one picture at a time. (I) If a contract requires an actor to abide by studio rules, it shall further provide that such rules shall be reasonable. (J) Every contract providing for the exercise of options shall provide that notice of exercise must be in writing. (K) The foregoing regulations shall not be evaded by means of waivers, other terms in derogation thereof, or by any other means. (L) The foregoing regulations are minimum terms in favor of the actor. The contract player may obtain better terms if he is able to do so, but the producer may not make a contract with a contract player on terms less favorable to the actor. RULE VII. Concerning Arbitration No producer shall make it a condition of employment or persuade or attempt to persuade an actor to designate any particular actors organization to appoint arbitrators for the actor under the arbitration paragraph in the Minimum Standard Contract for Free Lance Actors, the Minimum Standard Contract for Day Players, or in any contract with a con¬ tract player. RULE VIII. Call Bureaus. Competitive Bidding. No producer shall aid, promote, participate in, assist, or use any bureau or agency having as" its purpose or practice the calling, reserving, or hiring of actors for more than one motion picture production company, or having as its purpose or practice the collection and mainten¬ ance of data on actors' salaries and state of employment. No producer shall make any agreement or have any understanding with any other producer whereby a producer shall agree to refrain from using or contracting to use a given actor, who is not\.under contract to the other producer. No producer shall make any agreement or have any understanding with any other producer, the purpose or effect of which is to prevent or lessen free competitive bidding for the services of any actor or actors. RULE IX. Administration It is the intent and purpose of these rules to bring all actors within them and to govern contracts between producers and all actors. If a contract between a producer and an actor does not fall into one of the three classifica¬ tions, that is, free lance actors, day players, and contract players, according to the defini¬ tions herein contained, the Administrator shall decide which body of rules govern such con¬ tract and his decision shall automatically bring such contract under such rules. The Admin¬ istrator from time to time may make and pro¬ mulgate rules to govern such cases, and also rules to effectuate the enforcement and admin¬ istration of this set of Fair Practices, not in¬ consistent therewith, and when so made and promulgated, they shall become a part hereof. Without limiting the generality of the fore¬ going, the Administrator may require a dupli¬ cate of all contracts with actors to be filed with the Administrator.