Kinematograph Year Book, 1931 - Eighteenth Year #272424

There were regrettable lapses which marked a not too peaceful period. The big fight between the distributing and the exhibiting 'sides of the business was on the subject of guarantees and disc charges. The growing dissatisfaction felt by exhibitors with the system under which films were booked on sharing terms with a guaranteed minimum payment culminated in a definite and unanimous resolution, taken at the Summer Conference of the to refuse business with firms making this demand. Feeling was very strong upon this point, and the question of disc charges was allied to it in the agitation, for there was a distinct sense of grievance when a man who had hired a picture was called upon to pay a separate sum for the record which was actually 'an integral part of the show.