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FILM & TV TECHNICIAN
February 1957
Our A.G.M. Guest
STEPHEN SWINGLER, M.P.
IT is said that one of the features which most impresses the foreign visitor to this country is questiontime in the House of Commons. Any visitor there at that time will almost inevitably see Stephen Swingler, Labour member for Newcastle-under-Lyne, pressing Cabinet Ministers on a variety of subjects, for he is one of the most regular and persistent of Parliamentary questioners.
A.C.T.T. knows him through films, but the film industry is only one of the many subjects in which he takes an expert interest.
The usual two guesses for his interest in films are both wrong. He was not lobbied by his brother Humphrey of Green Park Productions, nor was he approached by A.C.T.T.
The reason is much simpler. Woodrow Wyatt — now no longer a Member of Parliament — and he were looking at the published quota
returns three or four years ago and came to the conclusion they
were excessive and that the Board of Trade were doing little about it. They therefore tabled a series of
questions which stirred things up most effectively.
The subsequent successful prosecution of defaulters and the decline in quota defaulters, particularly among some of the larger cinemas, are in most people's minds attributable to the campaign started by Messrs. Wyatt and Swingler and carried on by Stephen Swingler after Woodrow Wyatt's General Election defeat.
It was the start of this campaign which brought A.C.T.T. in touch with Stephen Swingler and since then we have had the friendliest possible contact. We are therefore particularly glad that he has been able to accept the General Council's invitation to be the guest speaker at our 24th Annual General Meeting, and we are sure his attendance will be added inducement to members to be present on the second day of the Meeting, Sunday, 10th March, when he will be speaking to us.
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