'Am I crossing picket lines if I see a movie?' and other Hollywood strike fan questions answered

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2. As far as I know, studios still automatically pay out residuals

In the early sixties, „Advise and Consent“ was being filmed, and some scenes were filmed in the actual Capitol in Washington. One scene called for a reporter asking some member of Congress something, and they didn‘t have one. Someone spotted my dad, and said, hey, that guy is a real reporter! So they hired him on the spot, took ten minutes to film the scene and get his name address. From then on, for the next forty years or so, he was still getting a yearly check for $1.25 from some Hollywood studio for his one line in that film so many decades ago.