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Story of the Year.
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a scheme which was duly submitted to the C.E.A. for consideration.
It was of course based on voluntary lines, and its punitive clauses relied upon the infliction upon renters of fines and other disabilities, such as prohibition to participate in the scheme and the refusal of registration. As to exhibitors there was an undertaking that the Tenters would bar any one of them who offended against the agreement, or who booked with a renter who remained outside it.
The C.E.A. was further asked to make such rules as would compel its members to conform to the scheme. The committee was to consist of 24 members, half renters and half exhibitors.
Its essential quality was that it was a renters' scheme, and the exhibitors were to enter it in a spirit of co-operation instead of assuming equal responsibility. Its effectiveness, in short, demanded such a condition of the Trade that no single renter or exhioitor could afford to ignore the risk of incurring the penalties, and its weak ness therefore lay in the fact that neither of the parties could guarantee 100 per cent, adherence.
This scheme failing to secure acceptance by the C.E.A., the Trade was left in the rather undignified position of having to confess that it was incapable of putting its house in order. The news that Sir Philip CunliffeLister had prepared a Memorandum for submission to the Imperial Conference was therefore received with little surprise.
To the report of the Conference's Economic Committee I have already referred ; the proposed Government Bill is at the time of writing, a very strictly guarded secret, and its fate in the House of Commons will depend on several factors which not the wisest Parliamentarian can foretell, but every indication suggests that the failure of the Trade to agree upon its own policy will mean a measure that will cause much anxiety all round.
British Productions.
With so much publicity devoted to the support of our own pictures, it is a matter of regret that the output has to be registered as the smallest on record since the war. In 1925 we made 34, last year there were only 23 films completed . in our studios, and a few which came from overseas, but were certainly British — T allude to " With Cobham to the Cape," " Hine-Moa," "Palaver" and one or two like them.