Business screen magazine (1946)

lin owning any kind of property. So get the facts ibcfore you put your money to work." I Animated pral-falls do not prevent the piciture from slicking to the facts. There is no attempt to ■■sell" Free Enterprise, nor is the Stock i Exchange presented as the Shining Knight of Capitalism. Tlic film does try to show how business works and how the Exchange does play an important part in making business work. Smart sponsors li.ickiiif; an honest. intcHigent film. IS.OtMUMMI Audience Is Estimated Prints of the film are available immediately |for puhlic showing all over the country and may be had without charge from the New York Stock lExchange. anv member firm of the Exchange, or 'from Modern Talking Picture Service. The Ex;rhan,!.'e estimates that about five million people Iwill see the film in the first year it is shown. ^ PicUirc of Inflation NAM FILM EXPLAINS ITS CAUSES ♦ Audiences who can take their economic education straight, with no sugar-coating, will enjoy a new picture just released by the National .Association "f Manufacturers to explain where 46c of our dollar has gone since 19.39. lour Money Is What You Make It. .36 min, color, is a film version of a flannel board lecture that N.VM's Community Program Development Department has been putting on for some months. Demand for speakers grew to be so heavv that NAM has had the program filmed (by Apex Film Corp.) and will have 300 prints available in the national and 12 regional offices to sometimes substitute for the speakers. Desifined In \r<iii-e I'eixiiiai V<li<)ii The film is a clear exposition of inflation — its causes and cure -designed to arouse in the viewer a personal concern with the evils of inflation. Rising prices and shrinking dollars are shown as bv-products of inflation — not inflation it.«elf. Inflatiim is pictured as resulting from a lack of balance between the supplies of goods available and the monev available to buy thos<goods. Graphicallv. the picture shows bou government actions and panic-buying by individuals create inflation, and what other actions, nolablv higher production and balanced government budgets, can do Id help prevent inflation. N.-\M makes a neat package of materials to acrompativ bookings of Your Money. . . . Promotion leaflets are available for program chairmen to s«Miil out as invitations to see the film: the .A.ssoiiation supplies suggested introihictorv and closing remarks for the local speaker: and illustrated Ixxiklels are provided for each member of the audience to lake home. Rll Million \iiilien<'e W illimil \ iden NAM has announced, concurrenllv with release of the new film, that its twelve prcviou,-" movies have now reached an audience of over 180 milliiin. Thai's a lot of ix-ople. And that does nol lake into consideration television and film audiences for ils 8<1 industrial newsreels which Would account for manv millions more. JJ* ■"// tirliiiiii Tniiflher" he^im in strijr as it retail's lahnr-rniiiiai^eiiifnl hi\t(iry. Labor organization begins among the uorkers at American Lead Pencil Company^ plant . . . . . . ami cuiitinues until uell-e stablished uorhing arrangements result in better productivity. "Working Together for Prodiiclivily 2(iTH CENTURY FUND PICTURE WILL BE DISTRIBUTED BY BRITVNMCA FILMS MANY Interesting Films have been made on the relations of labor and management. .And most of them, it can be added, have been predominantly honest and fair in treatment of both sides of the question. Still, ihev have been sponsored films, bv corporations or bv unions, and one point of view has been emphasized, much as speakers would argue, alternatively, in a very polite debate. This background makes a new film of the rwentielh Cenlurv Fund all ihe more exieptional as it walks a |iatli right down llie middle with aid and abettance from both labor and management. Working Together. 20 min, b/w, produced bv Eddie Albert Productions, is based on a 19-19 re|M>rl of ihe Labor Commiltee of the Twentieth Cenlurv Fund, the committee, eminentlv "unloadecl." In-ing composed of businessmen, labor leaders, economists and public-minded citizens. The Fund is less inhibited than most economic agencies and makes a practice of seeking out controversial, "hot" subjj-cls for res<-arch and dissemination. Its labor-management findings, published as a report. Partners in Proilurtion. were widelv hailed as a pioneering aid to understanding of the subject. First efforts at u riling a film to ilrumalize till report were failures. The commitlee fell that a slii-k. "Ilollvwood" treatment of fictionalized situations and imaginarv characters was not the N I' M It V. I< 1 \ ti I I M K I .1 • 1952 wav to make a Irulv useful film. Both producer and the Fund then sought some specifii labormanagement story and. luckily, found it at the Hoboken plant of the American \jeaA Pencil Company. Holh labor and management agreed to coo|>erale in making the film in the compan\"s plant, and with onlv two exceplions all parts are plaved. with exceptional skill, by the actual persons involved. The storv traces the historv of the company from the grim strifes Iwlwi-en management and workers in 19.37 to the pres«'Ml da\ . The plant was organized in 1937 as Lm-al 77.\ of the Textile V^'orkers Union, CIO. (The shop steward joke«l at a rec-ent showing of the film, "We make Velvet pencils."* Management, suddenly ci>nfronled with a unified. IM-Iligereni labor force, had no choice but to ilis<-us.s the uniim demands and a compromise agreement was achieved. \ little later ihere was a long and hitler argument lH-lw<-en union and management over a pa\ detluction for time lost during a small fire in the plant. Again management and labor finally reached a compromise that was ac«-r)>led l>% both. In 19-14^ a strike was calleil b\ ihe union Itecause of ihe management's refusal to grant further wage increa.*es. After eight hitler weeks, in which neither side )icldc(i. the unii>n r.'iine 4.3