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officers plus 10 members was introduced. Another important change was the adoption of the principle of enforced rotation in office with the introduction of the «three term» rule, agreed by the General Assembly in Lausanne in 1979. The frequency of elections changed as well - the change to regular elections every two years was also introduced in 1979; previously elections had normally been annual events. Other distortions are less easy to spot, and I do not claim to have identified all of them even in the elections I have looked at. However, some of them offer interesting indications of ways in which FIAF has in the past addressed the issue of reforming itself. For example - • in 1967, the Minutes record one delegate declining nomination «out of respect for the FIAF’s unwritten and traditional rule of requesting only one member from each country to serve on the Executive Committee» - a rule that has since been institutionalised to limit representation to one member from each archive. • in 1969 and 1970, special steps were taken to ensure the election of members from outside Europe, two places out of eight being voted for on this basis before the remaining places were filled. This procedure was then abandoned, after Eileen Bowser, who had failed to be elected to a non-European place, was in any case elected in the general ballot. • in 1971, and at various elections thereafter, the outgoing EC announced that it had made or was making specific efforts to ensure that there should be more than one nomination for each of the officers, though a study of the following pages will indicate that these efforts have rarely had much impact on actual election procedures. • also in 1971, the outgoing EC particularly asked for the election to the EC of the host of the next year’s congress • in 1972, it was suggested specifically to restrict one of the «reserve» EC places to a delegate who had never yet served on the Executive Committee Results The results of this analysis are now available in various ‘products’. Complete information on the history of all previous generations of FIAF’s Executive Officers and Committees has been compiled into two documents which have been placed with the Secretariat in Brussels, where they can be made available for anyone interested in reading them. The first document is a ‘time line’ showing the changing composition of the Officers and of the Executive Committee over the sixty-year history of the Federation. The second is an alphabetical ‘Who’s Who’ which identifies the 102 people named in the ‘time line’ by listing their parent archive and their service on the Executive. From these two documents are derived the tables and charts reproduced in the following pages. Preliminary conclusions derived from this analysis are offered in two groups of observations, given below. Observation Group 1 examines various questions relating to the degree of ‘turnover’ in the composition of 8 Journal of Film Preservation / 56 / 1998
the FIAF Executive. Observation Group 2 examines questions relating to the origins of those serving as FIAF’s Executive over the past sixty years. OBSERVATION GROUP 1: ‘TURNOVER’ 1A. Turnover: arrival of «new faces» in the EC In the 40 Executive Committees that have held office since 1946, on average just under 2.5 new members have joined the EC after each election One measure of ‘turnover’ in an administration is the extent to which elections do - or do not - introduce «new faces». In spite of the general impression that FIAF inclines to stability, there have only been 4 elections out of the 40 held since the revival of FIAF in 1946 at which no new faces were introduced onto the Executive. At all other elections, between 1 and 8 new people joined the ranks of those elected, the average being 2.37. (See Chart 1.) This position would seem to be reasonably satisfactory, although at the extremes, while zero turnover is certainly not good, it could be argued that a turnover of 8 people out of a Committee of 13 (as happened in 1993) represents a threat to continuity that is just as unhealthy. Eight Seven Six Five Four Three Two One None Chart 1: Turnover in EC Elections 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 1B. Turnover: Contested elections to the three ‘Officer’ posts There is a tendency for Officer posts to be filled by the election of single, unopposed candidates. This tendency is stronger for the offices of Secretary-General and Treasurer than it is for the Presidency, and appears to be gaining in strength over recent years. Another measure of turnover is the extent to which elections for the 9 Journal of Film Preservation / 56 / 1998 F R E Q U E N C Y
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