Motion Picture & Television Fund

Motion Picture & Television Fund, MPTF abbreviated, a Fund who takes care of needy member of the film industry is called. Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and David W. Griffith called the Organization in 1921 under the slogan We Take Care of Our Own ( mutatis mutandis We take care of our own people ) to life. At its inception, the Fund Motion Picture Relief Fund was ( MPRF ). Purpose of the organization was and is to support needy people in the film industry. As the first president acted Joseph M. Schenck, Mary Pickford was his deputy and Reverend Neal Dodd, who had appeared in over 300 films as a pastor, Managing Director.

The Board of Trustees was soon among the supporters of the fund leading filmmakers, such as Cecil B. DeMille, Jesse L. Lasky, Harold Lloyd, Hal Roach, Donald Crisp and Irving Thalberg. The transition from silent films to talkies brought drastic changes to many filmmakers with what drew a wave of support requests by itself. In order to cope with the tasks better, they began to organize charity events and raise money at premieres, fashion shows or sporting events. In 1932, Mary Pickford the suggestion that anyone who earn more than $ 200 per week in Hollywood, 0.5 percent of his income 'll get the MPRF. This proposal went into the organization as a Payroll Pledge program. From 1938, then also training centers, producers and unions joined this program. The Screen Actors Guild brought in with. The star-studded Screen Guild Show, was created the efforts of the leaders of the MPRF, show up more revenue streams. For the first time on the air was subsidized by Gulf Oil and broadcast by CBS Show on January 8, 1939. She ran into the year 1952. The show offered the audience a radio play versions just current and popular films, mostly in the original cast. The actors, all of them big stars, waived their usual fees. A total of $ 5,300,000 came together.

Early as 1940, the first on September 27, 1942, inaugurated Motion Picture & Television Country House was founded. 1948 called the Foundation to hospital in life.

The MPRF in 1971 renamed the Motion Picture & Television Fund ( MPTF ), as well as the television professionals had to be considered. Jeffrey Katzenberg is a founder of the Motion Picture & Television Fund Foundation. The objectives have remained the same as in the founding of the original form of 1921 when there was no television.

In Stiftungsausschuss you find such well-known names such as Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Michael Douglas, Heather Locklear, Kevin Spacey and Steven Spielberg.