Call to nationalize Shepperton studios

Workers Press no. 741, 17 April 1972 · scan pages 2, 3

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SHEPPERTON film studios should be nationalized with the rest of the film industry, a meeting at the Criterion theatre, London, decided yesterday.

The meeting, called to discuss the rumoured shutdown of the Middlesex studios, carried the call for nationalization under workers' control as an amendment to a resolution drawn up by leaders of the industry's seven trade unions.

They had simply demanded government aid to halt the the industry.

The resolution also called for industrial action to promote studio-based films, obtain government cash for the National Film Finance Corporation and resist studio closures — amended to include Shepperton specifically.

It asked the Tory government to make £5ml available under the 1970 Films Act which wou Id be used by the NFFC to take over Shepperton and promote a programme of new productions. •SEE PAGE 12

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