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THE CINE-TECHNICIAN
April 1954
CINE TECHNICIAN
Vol. 20
The A.C.T. Journal APRIL 1954
PRICE SIXPENCE
No. 112
CONTENTS
Page ROUND THE FILM WORLD ... 50
A FILM TECHNICIAN'S NOTEBOOK,
compiled by A. E. Jeakins 51, 52, 53
THE FDLM LABORATORIES' LOCK-OUT, compiled by Chris Brunei, with cartoons by Land, J. Cook, and Derek Meddings 54, 55, 56,
57, 58, 59, 60 CINE'S COMPLETE GUIDE TO BRITISH
FILM MAKERS 61
DIRECTORS IN A RUT, by William
Dieterle 62, 63
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/^INE goes to press before Government-appointed ^ Committee of Enquiry report on dispute in major film laboratories is made public.
Employers at six laboratories concerned re-started the 2,000 dismissed employees on 1st April; twoweeks' notices of dismissal handed to technicians employed on film production and newsreels were withdrawn. ACT ended strike of 400 maintenance workers, begun on same day as lock-out, and withdrew instructions to laboratory members to ban overtime and work-to-rule.
Events leading to laboratory stoppage were fully reported in previous numbers of Cine. In this number, Cine carries a special report of the lock-out itself. Judging by violent hostility to ACT shown by some cinema trade journals, laboratory workers' case would have had scant publicity and a much heavier mauling but for the existence of Cine. Full presentation in this journal of ACT's case and full reports of statements made by union and employers tempered union-mauling proclivities of employersupported journals inside and outside the trade.
rpHE dispute will be one of the many subjects down for report and debate at ACT's Annual General Meeting, which is to be held on 25th and 26th April, at Beaver Hall, near Mansion House. Sessions on both days start at 10 a.m. Admission will be by ACT card and all members are urged to attend. This meeting debates and decides ACT policy on subjects vital to welfare of film technicians and the film industry in coming year.
"jVEXT month, ACT celebrates its 21st birthday. Founded 1933 by a handful of film technicians, ACT has survived much opposition, the chaotic upsand-downs of pre-war film industry, the strains of war and post-war conditions, and film production setbacks of recent years. Today it represents virtually all Britain's film technicians and film process workers.
Event wUl be celebrated with high jinks at the ACT Ball on 14th May, 11 p.m. to 5 a.m., at the Festival Hall. Tickets are 25s. single, and £2 2s. Od. double, and admission includes running buffet and breakfast. Tickets can be obtained from ACT Head Office, or from any ACT Shop Steward.
The May Cine will be greatly enlarged number, devoted to a survey of British film makers' achievements and problems over the last 21 years. It will be priced at one shilling. Subscribers will get their copy in the usual way at no extra charge. Others are advised to order now.