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uses various contracts for actors, actresses, and directors. Some contracts stipulate a certain salary for one picture, others a salary for a series of pictures, and still others a stated weekly salary to be paid on the basis of the ratio of the number of hours in which the particular actor is actually employed in a week to the total number of working hours in the week. All stock actors are paid on a flat salary basis. Aside from contracts for single pictures, those of the Paramount Publix Corporation are in general for six months' duration with subsequent options at the expiration of each six months' period for five years. Usually, five-year contracts stipulate definite salary increases operative at each
Exhibit 8 Contract Record Kept by Paramount Publix Corporation
Artist
Present Salary
Future Salary at Next Option
Date of Next Option
renewal; that clause, however, is not an essential requisite. If for any reason the company should not elect to take up its option, the contract automatically becomes inoperative and the actor becomes a free agent. The actor does not have a similar privilege of rejection. The longest straight contract is for twelve months.
In general all salaries, regardless of position, are paid weekly. Extras, temporary electricians, and others not under contract are paid daily.
To keep first-hand information available for executive use, complete lists are tabulated and brought up to date frequently on all contractual information having to do with the actor roster. Separate forms, such as that illustrated in Exhibit 8, are made out for stars, stock company, directors, writers, and musicians.