History Repeats in Hollywood

Although SAG and AFTRA have remained separate, it was recognized back in the late ‘50s that some sort of correlation was needed in areas such as TV commercials [“Hollywood’s 2 Major Actors Unions Consider Merging,” Dec. 16].

An advertising agency committee worked up a grid borrowing from SAG’s unfamiliar system of performer categories, each divided into “off-camera/on-camera.” We listened calmly to the committee’s recommendations until we realized they had included a rate for “off-camera dancers.”

BERNARD S. KRAUSE

Oxnard