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APPENDIX VI
BRITAIN'S EADY PLAN
The original plan, introduced under the auspices of Sir Wilfred Eady of the Treasury, and which is currently referred to as the Eady Plan, was an industry-run voluntary plan whereby each exhibitor agreed to pay one farthing into the British Film Production Fund for every cinema seat sold at prices in excess of 3d. The collected proceeds were distributed to British film makers in direct proportion of their earnings.
In October 1957, the statutory British film levy was introduced, following clearly the lines of the Eady Plan. The levy is collected from exhibitors by Customs and Excise. The present rate is 1/9th of the amount by which cinema seat prices exceed 73p.
Amounts collected go into the British Film Fund Agency, and are then redistributed to qualified producers after 10% has been deducted from the total; this 10% goes toward the Children's Film Foundation, the British Film Institute, and to the National Film School.
To be eligible, a film must be:
1. Made by a citizen of the British Commonwealth or by a company, the majority of whose directors must be citizens of the British Commonwealth.
2. The film studio, if any, used for shooting the picture or recording the sound of any partof the film must be situated in a Commonwealth country.
3. Not less than 75% of the cost of labour of persons directly engaged in the making of the film must have been paid, whether by the makers or any other fund, to a citizen of the British Commonwealth. Before calculating this percentage of labour costs, the salary of any one person who was not a citizen of the British Commonwealth may be excluded.
Labour costs refer to payments for copyrights in a
work directly related to the making of the film, includes executive producers, still photographers, cameramen, production and studio managers, but excludes clerks, typists, legal, publicity and transport staff.