Kinematograph year book (1944)

142 The Kinematograph Year Book. (i) that he is financially interested in the making of a film, or is engaged, in an administrative or clerical capacity, as an officer or servant of an undertaking concerned with the making of the film, or (ii) that he supplies goods used in the making of the film or is in the employment of a person who supplies such goods ; " long film " means a film the length of which is not less than three thousand feet ; "maker," in relation to a film, means the person by whom the arrangements necessary for the making of the film are undertaken ; "the register," means the register of films registered under Part III of this Act, and "registration" means registration under that Part of this Act; "registered" means registered either under Part III of this Act or under Part II of the Act of 1927; " registered length," in relation to a film, means the length of the film as registered for the time being "renter" means a person who carries cn the business of distributing cinematograph films to exhibitors, and, in relation to any renters' quota period, includes a person who has carried on that business in that period : "renter's licence" means, in relation to any perscn, a licence under Part I of this Act authorising him to carry on business as a renter ; "renters' quota period" means the year beginning with the first day of April nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, or the period of six months beginning with the first day of April or October in the year nineteen hundred and thirty-nine or in any of the eight succeeding years ; serial film or series of films " means a serial film or series of films consisting of a number of parts not exceeding thirteen, each of which does not exceed two thousand feet in length, and which are intended to be exhibited on successive dates at intervals not exceeding fourteen days ; " short film " means a film the length of which is less than three thousand feet ; "studio " means a building constructed or adapted for the purpose of making films therein, and includes any land occupied with such a building, and a studio shall be deemed to be used in making a film if any part of that film, or of any other film used in making it, consists of photographs taken in that studio ; and "studio scenes" shall be construed accordingly ; " theatre " means any premises used for the exhibition of films to the public, except that the expression shall not, in relation to any year, — (a) be construed as including any church, chapel or other place of religious worship, or any hall or other premises used in connection with, and for the purposes of, any church, chapel or other such place as aforesaid, if the number of days on which registered films are exhibited in that year at the church, chapel, place, hall or premises (exclusive of any exhibition forming part of a religious service) does not exceed six, or (b) be construed as including any premises used in that year for providing entertainments at which the exhibition of films is only part of the programme, if the total length of the registered film or films exhibited in the course of any one of those entertainments does not exceed two thousand feet ; " trade-shown," in relation to a film, means — (a) displayed within the administrative county of London to exhibitors or their agents in a building, and under conditions, allowing for the satisfactory viewing of the film, after announcement to such persons at least seven days before the display the display not being open to any member of the public on payment, or (b) displayed to exhibitors or their agents on one occasion on which the film is exhibited to the pub ic at a theatre in Great Britain during the first four consecutive days on which the frm is so exhibited, the display taking place after announcement to such persons at le^ast seven days before the display. (2) Any film registered under the Act of 1927 as a British film (not being a film which, by virtue of paragraph (ii) of the proviso to subsection (1) of section twenty-seven of that Act, is to be deemed to be a registered film for the purposes of the provisions of that Act other than those relating to the renters' quota) shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to be registered also as a renters' quota film. (3) A person shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to acquire a film for distribution in any manner if he acquires the right to distribute the film in that manner. (4) Any reference in this Act to distributing, or the distribution of, a film in any country or area shall be construed as a reference to distributing, or the distribution of, the film to exhibitors in that country or area for public exhibition therein. (5) For the purposes of this Act, the making of a film shall be deemed not to include the production of blank film or of positives intended for public exhibition, or the production of negatives by means of any process used for making copies of negatives.