International News-Reel Union

International News-Reel Union, Union Internationale de la Presse Filmée
Founded: 1936
Sources: HB 1938

Officers

• Dr. Corra do D'Errico Vice Chairman (Vice President)
• Erich Frankenheim Corresponding Member (Member)
• J. C. Gemell Member
• Jean Loubignac Secretary General
• Henri Piron Chairman (President)
• T. J. Spyrides Corresponding Member (Member)
• Edward Tislowitz Corresponding Member (Member)
• J. J. van Raab van Canstein Member
• von Pfaundler Member
• Hans Weidemann Vice Chairman (Vice President)

Seats

• Maison de la Presse: Brussels: Belgium

Congresses

• 1936-1936 Rome: Italy

Object

The object of the Union is to form an international organisation of news-reel associations; it ias been set up to protect the professional rights and interests of its members and to improve their working conditions in the various countries. (By News-reel Association is meant an organisation consisting of all those who are regularly and exclusively engaged in the preparation of news-reels — namely, directors, editors, commentators, reporters, camera-men and operators of sound apparatus and the specialists who assemble the news-reel).

Finances

Each Association or member pays an annual subscription fixed by the Congress.

General facts

The decision to establish the Union was adopted by the International Film Press Congress at Berlin in January 1936. It was constituted at Rome in April 1936, and approved by the Executive Committee at its meeting in Vienna in January 1937.

Publications

The Monthly Bulletin of the International Film Press Federation; Year-book.

Activities

The Directors' Committee, consisting of delegates of the associations of each country, meets at least twice a year, and an International Congress of the Associations is held annually.

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