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Movie Executive Analyses Hollywood Unemployment: Picture Production Down

Mr Jack L. Warner, executive producer of Warner Bros., clearly analysed the unemployment position in Hollywood in a statement made there on April 21. Unemployment in the motion picture industry had reached the danger point, said Mr Warner. The demand for good entertainment had never been so strong, but the number of idle workers continued to climb and the industry level continued to sag. “On April 12 of 1946, 44 motion 1 pictures were in work at the major studios,” he pointed out. “On April 12 of 1947, 33 pictures were before the cameras. And on April 12 of 1948, only 23 pictures were in production at the major studios. That means a drastic cut in workers’ jobs as well as a serious decline in the

over-all supply of w,orld entertainment.” Mr, Warner estimates this production drop during the last two years cost more than 3,000 technical craft workers their jobs.

“Responsibility for putting the pay cheques back into the pockets of the unemployed rests upon studio heads, " stars, producers, writers, directors and other top ranking creative talent. The level of picture production depends upon the willingness and capacity of creative and executive talent to roll up its sleeves and go to work. “Stars should think of their responsibility to fellow-workers before they refuse roles or decline to make a picture because they’ve already done one or two during the year. Each time a star refuses to do a picture or delays starting one, he or she is affecting the livelihood of a thousand or more workers. There are too many stars making too few pictures today.”

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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 55, 14 June 1948, Page 3

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Movie Executive Analyses Hollywood Unemployment: Picture Production Down Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 55, 14 June 1948, Page 3

Movie Executive Analyses Hollywood Unemployment: Picture Production Down Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 55, 14 June 1948, Page 3

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