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out percentage deals in which, by the very nature of the partnership created, they have been able to develop a continuing relationship to their material seldom possible in the usual employer-employee set-up. And only a few weeks ago came word of the formation of a pool of six writers, organized to buy, adapt and produce material for the screen, somewhat analagous in practice to the Playwrights' Company in the New York theatre.
Yet, all of this activity, vital as it is, merely establishes some healthy trade practices. It does not lay down any basic principles. It is merely a straw in the wind — a very important straw, for it shows which way the wind is blowing, but only a straw none the less.
Consequently, the members of the Screen Writers' Guild at a recent open meeting agreed on this rough approach to a formula:
In any arrangement by which there is granted the right to produce a motion picture based on material written by any member of the Authors' League or its member and affiliated guilds, there shall be granted only the right to produce and exhibit, within a stated period, a single motion picture on 35 mm. film in the English language, together with the rwstomary provisions relating to the use of sound, dialogue and music. Such rights shall be in the form of a license, limited as aforesaid, which shall cease on the expiration of a fixed period of time.
At this point, the question may well be asked: If the Screen Writers' Guild feels that this is a desirable course of action, why does not the Screen Writers' Guild put it into operation within its own jurisdiction forthwith?
The answer is simple and important. The Minimum Basic Agreement, under which the Screen Writers' Guild operates, applies to employment conditions only. It does not apply to material sold directly to studios for the screen. So the rules of the Guild, by and large, are binding principally upon those screen writers who are hired by studios to adapt the work of other writers for the screen. Consequently, any working rule which the Screen Writers' Guild might propose in this situation would cover only a minority of the Authors' League members who might conceivably be affected. The problem therefore is one for the whole League and it is to the whole League that the Screen Writers' Guild is turning at this time.
Pursuant to the resolution proposed above, the Screen Writers'