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The Kinemciogmph Year Bcok.
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The story of the K.R.S. and the G.E.A., during the period under review is practically the story of the trade. Their work has been carried on with a notable absence of friction, and although they failed to achieve the one big task to which they set themselves. S. Rowson, chairman of the Renters' Society, and W. N. Blake, president of the Exhibitors' Association, have served their constituents with devotion and success in every other direction.
To mark their appreciation of the work of W. Gavazzi King, who retired from the General Secretaryship of the C.E.A., full of years and honour, the members dined him in October, and presented him with a cheque for £1,400. His services are not lost to the Association, for he has been appointed to the new post of Consultative Secretary, and continues to edit the film reports. His successor is W. R. Fuller, who had an apprenticeship as Assistant Secretary for some years.
After a considerable period in which its usefulness was shown to he doubtful, the Cinematograph Trade Council, of which Lord Burnham was the president, finally passed out of existence in July. It was felt that the organisations which had represented the manufacturers, the renters and the exhibitors for so many years were the fit and proper bodies to carry on, and there were few dissentients to the suggestion of ending the C.T.C.
A new body, the British Empire Film Institute \ came into being in May. Several important and influential names are attached to its Council, and its weight has been lent to the patriotic, as distinct from the Trade, efforts to rehabilitate British films. Its actual achievements are perhaps abstract rather than concrete.
To sum up the work of the year, one would suggest that it has been a period of ploughing and seed-time. If the harvest in 1927 is worthy of all the work of 1926, the coming year should be one of very great prosperity for all branches of the industry.