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MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 1565
But as business commenced to get a little better somebody decided, "Oh, we can't do that. We've got to build these things solid." It says in there all of it must be done in the mill. All right ; there isn't a mill in California where it could be done, they are not big enough because they have put in sets of pictures which you have probably seen that are pretty big. You have probably seen sets they have put in of the Grand Central Station. I will say, gentlemen, when you walk onto that stage and you saw the replica of Grand Central Station built on that stage you would bet your life you were in the Grand Central Station.
How are you going to build that in a little bit of a mill probably 50 by 100 feet ? It could not be done.
So the industry kept coming along. New developments kept coming.
I can remember in the early days when they developed film. The fellow went into a room where it was so dark he couldn't see anythink. He felt around ; he had to have certain temperatures ; he had to have the baths, and everything all right. But today, science has come along and they set it like you would a thermostat for heat in your home. You just press a button.
There are improvements every day on cameras. There are improvements every day on sound. There are improvements on the manufacture of this and that.
Out at Twentieth Century-Fox a gi'ip out there perfected a sort of truck arrangement. He did it himself, out of his own head. That has probably saved a lot of money, but that is his.
I am showing you what was done in 1945. It would be just the same as the construction of a building in 1925. They are certainly not constructing them that way today. If you constructed a building today on this site, you would have air conditioning put in. Every stage in California has air conditioning today.
Mr. Owens. I cannot help but add, Mr. Casey, when you speak about building, from observation during our recent investigations, I must say that the percentage of change in that is about 10 percent, compared with other things. Someone is responsible for that, holding back those technological improvements.
Mr. Casey. No question about it. Since you have brought that matter up, let me tell you something.
When the NRA was first formed, we came down here. We had meetings down in the big building that our good friend Mr. Herbert Hoover, a resident of the State of California, had built. He was supposed to be a very fine engineer. In that day he built one of the finest buildings you have in Washington.
The only room he air-conditioned was his own private office. We had meetings there in the summertime when I was in there fighting with several others, and they allowed us to strip down to our undershirts.
So what you say is absolutely so, they have not gone along with it. Probably some day they will, but that is another business. It is not the picture business.
Up until 1937, the latter part of 1936, or up until the time we gave them the closed shop, we had no trouble, no stoppage of any kind, and we have never had a situation where they had a strike, to my
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