THE ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ART AND SCIENCES 6912 Hollywood Blvd., Suite 212 HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA Telephone HEmps ead 6596 proper to further the welfare and protect the honor and good repute of the profession. It will encourage the improvement and ad­ vancement of the arts and sciences of the pro­ THE ACADEMY OF fession by the interchange of constructive ideas and by awards of merit for distinctive achieve­ MOTION PICTURE ARTS ments. It will take steps to develop the greater AND SCIENCES pow€r and influence of the screen. (June 20, 1927) In a word, the Academy proposes to do for the motion picture profession in all its branches what other great national and inter­ The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and national constructive bodies have done for other arts and sciences and industries. Sci€nces is an organization uniting into one body all branches of I!'0tion picture production. The administration of the Academy's busi­ ness and affairs are conducted by a Board of For many years the creative forces in this Directors, three from each branch, who elect industry left t~ othel;s. the promotion and pro­ th€ President of the Academy, a Vice President, a Treasurer and a Secretary. The offices and tection of their interests. Collectively they did rooms of the Academy are at present located nothing eHeptive either to harmoniz~ and cor­ at 6912 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, Cali· rect conditions within their own ranks or to fornia. co· operate for the welfare of the industry as To carry out the activities of the Academy a wbole. as a whole, ther€ have been appointed thus far €ight general committees, all of which have But now with the organization of the Aca­ met, organized and commenced functioning. demy, the producing workers, actors, direc­ The members of these committees together tors, writers, technicians and producing exe­ with the offic€rs, Board of Directors and cutives, having the future progress of this Branch Ex€cutive committees will be found listed on anoth€r page. They have all been great universal entertainment at heart, ha.ve elected or appointed to hold office until the joined unselfishly into one big concerted move· first general election in October. ment to accomplish effectually those essential '1 he Acad€my Building and Finance Com­ things which have been hitherto neglected. mittee has the oversight of finances of the Th€ Academy ·will ta.ke aggressive action in Academy and has charge of a project for the meeting outside attacks tha.t are unjust. ultimate erection of an Academy building of ornate and distinguished character, to be un· It will promote harmony and solidarity dertaken at sUICh time as the Academy may among the membership and among the differ­ decide. ent branches. The Benefit Motion Picture Committee has It wi.ll reconcile internal differences that charge of the production of a motion picture may €xist or arise. in association with the Motion Picture Relief It Will adopt s'uch ways and means as are Fund. It is intended to enlist the services of the forty or fifty greate.st names of the screen 2 3 and to sec4re the widest dissemination of the over all controversies, complaints and griev­ production through the producers associated' ·ances that may exist or arise between the dif­ with the Academy in co-orperation with the ferent branches or their members or between Producers and Distributors of America. d.ifferent persons or companies engaged in mo­ The Committee on College Affairs conducts tion picture production, whether members or the relations of the Academy with schools, non-members of the Acad,emy. . The procedure colleges and universities, promoting the estab­ for bringing matters before the Academy for lishment of college courses, literary, art and conciliation or settlement is as follows: The scientific, which may be of future benefit to cemplainant first presents his or her case to motion picture production. 'fo this end the the Executive Committee of the Branch to University of Southern California, represented which the complainant belongs. The Branch by its President, Doctor Von KleinSmid, is now Execurtive Committee, if it finds the complaint co-operating with the Academy through its of sufficient merit may seek of its own motion Committee on College Affairs. Arrangements to reconcile the controversy or it may refer it with other colleges are in process of negotia­ to the Conciliation Committee of the Academy tion. in the manner prescribed by the Constitution and By-Laws. The Conciliation Committee will The Public Relations Committee is concern­ then endeavor to reconcile the parties or adjust ed with matters pertaining to the general wel­ the matter without a hearing, failing in which fare of the profession. Steps have been taken it may hear both sides of the controversy and to co-operate with the HolIywood Chamber of give its decision, which, however, will . not de­ Commerce in such directions as may be of mu­ prive either side of its lega:t.rights unless the iual interest. parties to the complaint have speCifically obli­ The Information Committee is in charge of gated themselves in proper form to abide by appropriate and practical measures to get into such decision. The hope of the Academy is closer personal touch with the friends of mo­ ·tha.t all matters of internal conflict will be tion pictures throughout the world. amicably and justly reconciled, to the satiSfac­ tion and good feeling of all concerned, witbout The Awards of Merit Committee has charge of plans for the presentation of prizes of s'UJit­ recourse to drastic action. able character for the most valuable and dis­ The functions of the Academy are not tinguished achievements each year in the sev­ meant to duplicate, interfere with · or usurp eral bra.nches of motion pictur€ production, to those of any other existing organizations. On thE) end that advancement in the arts and the contrary it will co-operate with and encou['­ sciences of the profession may be encouraged. ilge the activities of other bodies for the bene­ fit of the industry as a whole. The Membership Committee has the con­ sideration of all names presented for invitation to membership in the Academy. Membership ACADEMY ORGANIZA TION is by invitation only. Names are proposed to The Academy was chartered under the laws the Committee which passlis upon them -and if of California, May 4, 1927, and founded at all the !'epoli is favorable the Board of Directors organization dinner at the Biltmore Hotel, Los may then invite the proposed persons to be­ Angeles, May 11, 1927, at which Douglas Fair­ come members of the Academy. It is under­ banks presided and three hundred prominent stood that there shall be no solicitation of mem­ members of the motion picture profession were bership and that each invitation is extended as ' present. an unsought distinction. The Active 'and Associate membership is The Conciliation Committee has jurisdiction divided into the five major production branches 4 5 of the industry: Actors, Directors, Producers, see fit and adopt measures having special r6- Technicians and Writers,. each branch being fe l'6nCe to their separate problems not inconsis­ represented on the Board of Directors by three tent with the aims and PUI'poses of the Aca­ members. In additlon to this central organiza­ demy as a whole. They may make recommen­ tion, each branch as provided by the Constitu­ dations to the Board of Directors of the tion and By-Laws, has an executive committee Academy, fill vacancies occurring in the ~ranch of five members, elected by the branch active representation on the Board through thell' :Bxe­ membership. cutive Committees, hold meetings for the ex­ Qualifications for Active ::\1embership in all change of constructive ideas, and in general branches are: conduct their affairs as autonomous bodies, sub­ ject to the Constitution and By-Laws of the "Any person who has accomplished dis­ Academy. tinguished work or acquired distingudsh­ ed standing in or made valuable contro­ bution to the productlon branches of the OFFICERS OF THE ACADEMY motion picture Industry, directly or indi­ rectly, and who is of good moral and per­ D ouglas Fairbanks, President lSonal standing may become an a.ctive Fred Nlblo, Vice President member of the Academy by vote of the M. C. L ev ee, Treasurer Board of Directors, on recommendation Frank Woods, Secretary of the Committee on Membershlp • • .. Sec. I, Article 11, Constitution and By­ Laws. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Other classes of membership, subject to re­ For the Actors vision and re-classificatlon, are: Associate Douglas Fairbanks Conrad Nagel membership for those engaged in any of the Milton Sills five branches of production work who do not For the Directors qualify as active members. Special member­ F reel Niblo Frank Lloyd ship for those who are directly connected with John Stahl the motion picture Industry, but who are not engaged in any of the five production branches. For the Produeers Honorary membership which may be conferred Mary Pickford Louis B. Mayer for very exceptional and distinguished contri­ Joseph }\[. Schenck bution to the arts or sclences of rr::otion picture For the Technicians prod,uction. R(>y Pomeroy Cedl'ic Gibbons The membership fee for Active and Special J. A. :Ball Members is $100 and for Associate Members, For the ,,' riters $25. Dues are $5 per month. Honorary Mem­ Jeanie Macpherson Car ey 'Wilson bers pay no fees or dues. Joseph Farnham

THE FIVE BRANCH ORGANIZATIONS GENERAL COMMITTEES The five Branche$-Actors, Directors, Pro­ Academy Building nnd FInnnc" ducers, Technicians and Writers, have their M. C. L evee, Wa llace Beery own separate organizations. Each has an Exe­ Chairma n Ch arles C!,riBtle cutive Committee, a Chairman and a Secre­ Jesse Lasky Douglas F a irba nks tary. 'l'hey may meet at such times as they Jack Warner Donald Crisp 6 7 Benefit 1Iiotion Picture Producers Freci'K/lbl6, Sol WurtzE'l Louis B. Mayer, B. P. Schulberg Ch a irman Carey Wilson Chairman J ack Warner B. P. Schulberg Mary Pickford AI R')ckett, Sol. Wurt;r;al Jo~ . F a rnham J ohn Considine Secretary College Affairs Technicians Milton Sills, Sidney Olcott Wilfred Buckland L ouis Kolb Chairman C. B. DeMille Chail'lnan AI Gilks Roy Pomeroy L oUa 'Woods J. 'r. R eed, .I. M. Nickolaus .I. A. Ball Jane Murfin SecrHal'Y Public Relations ,,'rite rs rr\'ing Thalberg, Hobart Henley T om GeraghtL Ralph Elr)ck Chail'n1 an Wm. D eMille Chuinllan Renja'llin Gla7."l' TO"l Geraghty Ralph B lock Lotta 'Woo,ls, Waldemar Ynun,; J('hn Cons idine Benj . Glazel' Sp.<'t'etal'Y Infornu,:tion' .T os. ~f. Schenck, Car€:y 'Yils::m MEMBERSHIP OF THE ACADEMY Chairman N onna Sllearer J0hn McCormick Dolores Del Rio Harold Lloyd Daryl! Za nuck Actor's Branch Bc·be Daniels Jos. M, Farnham Astor, Mary Haines, "Villiam Boyd, William Hughes, Lloyd E. Awards of lIIerit Barrymore, John Hatton, Raymond Cell ric Gibhons, ,.I, Stua,t Blackton Bennett, Enid Holt, J ack Chairman R;char-d Barthelnwss Bowers, John Hel'sholt, J ean Rjcl GJ'auDlan Henry King B us hman, Francis X. Joy, Lea trice Bess M(' I'prlyth D. W. Griffith Beery, "Va ll ace Keaton, Buster Barthelmess, Richard LaRoque, Rod Conciliation Belmore, Lionel Lloyd. Hat'old Banky, Yilma Lewis, Mitche ll Louis B . 'May!'r, Milton S ills Carey, Harry L owe, Edmund Chainnan \Vildemar Young Colman, Ronald Mix, Ton, John Stahl Roy Pomeroy Cook, C lytle W. Mulhall, Jack Costello, D olores Mailes, Charles lIIembership Conklin, Ch('ster McDowell, Claire Chan ey, Lon Marshall, Tully H a rry Rapf, Frank Lloyd Cody, Lew Meighan, Thomas Chailman Conrad Nagel Cortez. Ricardo Moore, Colleen .I. A. Ball Jennie l\.bcpherson Carr, M ary M acDermott, Marc Cooley, Hallam M urray, Charles Dressel', L ouise MacLaglen, Victor DeGrasse, Sam McAyoy. May . BRANCH EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES Del Rio. Dolores MacLean. Douglas Doye, Billie Nagel, Conrad Daniels, Bebe NO\'a,'ro, Ramon Actors D enny, Reginald Nowell, W edgwOO>! Jack Holt Edeson. Robert Normand. ldabel Conrad Nagel, F a irbanks. Douglas Olmstead, Ge rtrude Chairman L o i~ "Yilson Lt'atl'ice J oy F o rbes, Ralph Roberts, Theodor e Hallam Cooley, Fra n cis, Alec B. Rich, lren e Secr etary Fazenda, Louise Shearer, Norma Directors Fairbanks. Douglas, Jr. Stone, L ewis FR.wcett. George Sills, Milton J. Stuart B lackton, Reginald Barker Gish, Lillian Swanson. Gloria Chairma n Sidney Olcott Gilbert. J ohn Sweet, B lanch L ois 'Veb er, Rowland V. Lee Griffith. Raymond T a lmadge. Norma Secretary Gl'ifflth, Corinne Talmadge . Con~tan ce Gllllngwater, Claude T ashma n, Lilyan 8 9 Technicians' Branch Tearle, Conway Walker, Johnnie Torrence, Ernest Washburn, Bryant Barnes, George Levinson, Nathan Tucker, Richard W. Williams, Kathlyn Barter, H. H. Leison, James Mitchell Varconl, Victor Windsor, Claire Basevl, James Mohr, H al Vidor, Floren ce Wilson, Lois Ball, J. A . Milner, Victor Buckland, Wilfred Miller, Arthur C. Directors' Branch Cohn, J. J. Menzies, William Carre, Ben Marsh, Oliver T . Adolfi, John G. King, H enry Dreier, Hans McIntyre, Robt. B. Archalnbaud, Geo. Lipton, L ew Day, Richard Nlckola us, J. M. Barker, R eginald Lee, Rowland V. Edeson, Arthur Newcombe, Warren Beaudine, Wm. Leonard, Robert Z . Gaudio, Gaetano Okey, J. C. Bell, Monta Lloyd, Fra nk Gibbons, Cedric Pelton, F . E. Blackton, J. Stuart Mayo, Archie L. Grot, Anton T. Pomeroy, R oy J. Brown, Clarence Melford, Geo. G rieve, H. W. Perry, H a rry Browning, Tod Milla rde, Harry Gliese, Rochus Reed, J. T . Buchowetzkl, Dimitri Morosco, vVa lter Gllks, A. L. Rosher, Chas. Borzage, Frank N iblo, Fred H a rtley, Esdras Roberts, Oren W . Carewe, Edwin Neilan, Marshall Hltt, L a urance W. Sartov, H enrlk Cline, Eddie N igh, Wm. J ackma n, Fred Struss, Karl Conway, Jack Olcott, Sidney Jackson, Horace Siaughte l', Nugent H. Crisp, Donald P a rker, Albert Knechtel, Alvin V . Tolhurst, L . H . Crosland, Alan Rosen, Phil K olb, Louis F. V olck, A. G. Curtiz, Michael Rosson, Harold DeMille, C. B. Robertson, John S. 'Vriters' Branc h DeMile, Wm. Santell, Alfred Fitzmaurice, George St . Clair, Malcolm Baker, C. Graham Kra ly, H a n s Ford, John Stahl, John M. Beranger, Clar a Ledno, Albert Shelby Fra nklin, Sidney A. Schertzinger, Victor L . Block, Ralph Lighton, L ouIs D . Fra nklin, C. M . Sedgwick, Edward Bern, Paul Logue, Chas. Griffith, D. W. Sutherland, A. Edward Cunningham, Jack Loring, Hope Goulding, Edmund Vignola, R obert G. Clift, Denison Lovett, Josephine Green, Alfred E. Von Strohelm, Eric Coldewey, Anthony Marion, Frances Henley, Hobart ,Veber, Lois Morga n, Byron Hill, George William Wals h, Raoul Colton, John Meredyth, Bess Howard, Wm. K. Wood, Sam Coffee, L enore Macpherson, J eanie Jones, F. Richard Willat, Irvin V. Dunn, Winifred Mathis, June Julian, Rupert W allace, Richar d DeGresac, Madame Fred Murfin, J a ne Fairfax, Marion McDermott, J ack Producers' Branch Farnham, Joe Miranda, Tom Flebbe, B eulah Dix Prin tzla u, Olga Asher, Ephriam Marshall , Geo. E. Fort, Garrett Ritchey, Will M. Allen, E. H. Mayer, Louis B. F a rnum, Dorothy Schofield, Paul Beetson, Fred Mannix, E . J. Glazer, Benj. Sulliva n, C. Gardner Bertholon, Goo. Moore, Tbos. A. Geraghty, Tom St. John, Adele Rogers Cohen, Geo. Pickford, Mary Gates, Harvey Stallings, L a urence Christie, Chas. Pommer. Erich Goldbeck, Willis Schayet', Richa r d Considine, J oh n W. Jr. Roach, Hal E. Heath, E. P ercy Spence, R a lph Eyton, Charles Rapf, H arry Hughes, Rupert Vadja, Ernest Fi'nelnan, B. P. Rogers, Charles R. Hubbard, Lucien Wilson, Car ey Fairbanks, R obt. Rockett, A. L. Hovey, Carl [tine Woods, Lotta Goedstadt, L. M. Rockett, Ray Johnston, Agnes Chrls Woods, Frank Grauman, Sid Stromberg, Hunt J osephson, Jullen Younger, A. P. Greenwood, M. E . Schenck, Joseph K enyon, Chas. Young, Waldemar Hoffman, Bernard H. Schulberg, B. P. Hyman, Bernard H. Sistrom, Wm. SpedaJ Members Henigson, H enry Sheeh a n, Winfield Koenig, 'Willlam Tha lberg, Irving Burkan, Nathan Chase, Julia Arthur LeBaron, Wm. Warner, S. L. Sprlng, Samuel Laemmle, Carl Wanger, Walter F. Lasky, Jesse Warner, J ack L. Levee, M . C. Wurtzel, Sol Loeb, Edwin 'Whlte, Jack Zanuck, D a rryl McCormick, J ohn 11 10