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30 ^> ^ ^> The Motion Picture Industry
gest single item of expense; wages were 13.5 per cent of cost; and materials, fuel, and purchased electric energy amounted to 20.88 per cent of the total cost of production." Of the total cost value "$128,496,710 consisted of negative films, the remainder comprising unfinished productions, the development of positive films, receipts for laboratory work done for others, receipts for use of studio facilities, and other work done for others. No less than 92.39 per cent of the value of all negative films was in theatrical pictures (both feature pictures and short subjects), in which but 13.06 per cent was in silent pictures."
The organization of the production department for a typical company may be seen by reference to Exhibit 4, which indicates the organization for production of the Paramount Publix Corporation as of the first part of 1929.2 Smaller companies obviously have a much less elaborate organization, but usually the same general outline is followed.
The production organization of the Paramount Publix Corporation is designed to effect the maximum amount of flexibility. Directors, as a rule, are free to proceed unmolested with their respective assignments. Supervision by associate producers is of an advisory nature ; it is of little importance in productions assigned to outstanding directors. Studio cabinets, consisting of the studio production manager, assistant production manager, directors, supervisors, and studio executive manager, hold weekly meetings to discuss the current problems of the various productions. In this manner each picture benefits from the ideas of all production officials. As a rule, the vice president in charge of production is present each week at either the studio cabinet meeting on Long Island or the one in Hollywood. It is his
2 The material dealing with the Paramount Publix Corporation is taken from Motion Pictures by Howard T. Lewis, Harvard Business Reports, Vol. 8 (McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1930.) The present production organization does not correspond exactly with the description here given.