Download or read book Film Actors Organize written by Kerry Segrave and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-03-23 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transition from stage to screen was not only a shift in popular entertainment, but a challenge for those working in the industry as well. This book looks at all the attempts to organize film actors into a union, starting in 1912 when the Actors’ Equity Association seemed the best platform for such an effort, to the establishment of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) in 1933 as the best vehicle to represent film actors; another four years passed before SAG was formally recognized by film producers and the first contract was signed.