History of Japanese Labor Unions 16

The year was 1965, in the middle of the high economic growth period.
But film jobs were declining, and PR films in particular had passed their heyday.
A PR film is a film made by a company to promote itself.
Then, in 1953, television was created, and TV commercials became more common.
Filmmakers who worked on PR films and other short films moved to TV commercials.
Similarly, filmmakers moved to TV dramas.
And more and more people were doing a lot of TV work, even though they had no experience making PR films or documentaries.
But at the time, film unions and associations did not recognize people working in television as their comrades.
The general idea at the time was that "television people are not filmmakers."　*1
Eisanro announced itself as a labor union that targeted all such unorganized people (including television).
So the very first thing we said was that we were a labor union responsible for 100,000 unorganized workers.
Our official name at the start was "Japan Film and Television Industry Workers' Union."
Eisanro had been thinking about the existence of television from the very beginning.
However, the atmosphere among film workers at the time was not like that.
So the general attitude was, "I understand the logic that Eisanro is saying, but..."
When Eisanro was founded, it had 600 members, but even within it there were people who had no desire to organize people working in television.

It was into this situation that Eisanro started.

*1　Not only in the labor unions, but in all the film scenes of the time, there was a majority of disdain for television, the idea that television was not film.