Jurisdictional disputes in the motion-picture Industry : hearings before a special subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, first-session, pursuant to H. Res. 111 (1948)

MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 507 JUBISDIOriON OF AFFILIATED PEOPERTY CRAFTSMEN, LOCAL NO. 4 4, PBOPEBTY MAKING AND MINIATUEE WOEK March 5, 1947 (a) The manufacturing and building and where the services of the builder are necessary, the setting up and operation of all props (properties), all manufactured trees, action props, all miniatures and any accessory, hanging or fixtures which might be used to decorate, embellish, adorn, mar, or be a part of the set other than the walls or permanent construction of the set. (Set construction to consist of the walls, floors, ceilings, staircases, windows, and doors of a room or building, including the front of the building, steps, marquees, and porches.) (Trim?) (&) All work in connection with the building of properties or miniatures (regardless of material used or how constructed), furniture making and repairing, installation and rigging, rigging of ships, and all other properties, and/or effects (except special effects — refer to special effects paragraph) shall come under this classification and be so rated. (c) All papier mache work, pyrocell, and insuUex. (d) Building and setting up of all railings, fences, gates, stiles, pipe or imitation pipe, regardless of size or what it might represent; metal bars or imitation metal bars or railings, such as might be used on staircases, windows, and doors, ships, modes of transportation, etc., also striking of all built props that are to be saved. (e) All work, including underpinnings and scaffolding (not working scaffolding) in connection with representations of outside scenery, such as rocks, waterfalls, snow scenes, desert scenes, forest, hills, mountains, etc. if) Building and construction of all store and office fixtures, cases (wall or floor), front and back bars, soda fountains, hotel, restaurant, kitchen, and theater prop equipment and furnishings to be used in the making and taking of motion pictures. (g) The building of all signs, building of stages, scenery frames, and cutouts. (h) The building of interiors or exteriors to be used for or representing railway cars and coaches, locomotives, airplanes, submarines, ships, boats, stages, automobiles, wagons, and any other vehicle or mode of transportation. (J) The setting up, and. where necessary, the operation of secret apertures, whether revolving or sliding. (;) Building, rigging, operating, grip of elevator doors, and other equipment appertaining thereto. (k) Building of action parts of a set, including fire escapes, chutes, etc. (0 All pattern work. (m) Building and setting up of all sheet metal whether used for miniature or full-sized sets or objects. (n) All work done in aging of sets when burnt or rasped. (o) Building of all animated or still figures or animals including taxidermy, rigging and operating of puppets, etc. (p) All leather work including repairing in connection with harnesses, saddles, etc., as well as all wire or rope rigging used in connection therewith. iq) All property, special effects, and/or prop making equipment should be built by the prop shop or special effects department. (r) Building of all set models. (s) Building and maintenance of all set hardware. Mr. Keabns. Mr. Gilbert. Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you are about to give to be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God? Mr. Gilbert. I do.