Kinematograph year book (1944)

Record Details:

Title:
Kinematograph year book
Date:
1944
Publisher:
London : Kinematograph Publications Ltd.
Volume:
Kinematograph year book (1944)
Leaf #:
000373
Language:
English
Collection:
Year Book and Global Cinema
Format:
Annuals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
November 10, 2022
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Our Leading Companies 353 OUR LEADING COMPANIES Official Details and Personnel Associated British Picture Corporation Ltd. Incorporated March 20, 1926 Directorate : Eric Lightfoot and Max Milder (U.S.A.) (Joint Managing Directors), Eric G. M. Fletcher, LL.D. (Lond.), and Sir Philip A. Warter. Secretary, George Hind Gaunt. Authorised Capital : £4,000.000 divided into £2,000,000 6 per cent. First Cum. Pref. Stock and £2,000,000 Ordinary Stock. Issued Capital : £2,000,000 6 per cent. First Cum. Pref. Stock in units of £1 each and £2,000,000 Ordinary Stock of 5s. each. Film House, Wardour Street, London, W.i. Automaticket, Ltd. Incorporated August 29, 1924. Directorate: Michael Moore (Chairman), H. Drummond Black, J. M. Evans, F. C. Buck, Joseph Wyatt. Secretary, B. L. Blampied. Authorised and Issued Capital: £35,000. 197, Wardour Street, London, W.i. British and Dominions Film Corporation, Ltd. Incorporated February 13, 1928. Directorate : E. Ronald Crammond (Chairman), Rt. Hon. Lord Grantley and W. H. Cockburn. Secretary. A. L. Dugon, A.C.A. Authorised Capital: £500,000 in shares of £1 each. Imperial Studios, Boreham Wood, Herts. BrKish Lion Film Corporation, Ltd. Incorporated November 27, 1027. Directorate : Samuel Woolf Smith (Chairman and Man. Director), I. C. Flower, A. P. Holt and L. C. Sennitt, Secretary : L. C. Sennitt, A.C.A. Authorised Capital : £750,000. 76-78, Wardour Street, London, W.i. British National Films, Ltd. Incorporated July 30. 1934. Directorate: G. W. Parish, F.C.I.S. (Chairman), Lady Yule, G. M. Yule and L. H. Jackson. Secretary: A. L. Dugon, A.C.A. Authorised Capital : £100,000. Private Company. National Studios, Boreham Wood, Herts. British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd. Incorporated May 18, 1896. Directorate: William C. Lusk (Chairman), Gordon M. Campbell, Geo. E. Bailey, Sir Felix J. C. Pole, Henry N. Sporborg (Chief Engineer), Herbert A. Lingard, John S. Ramsden, D. Abel Smith, H. Warren and Percy S. Turner. Authorised Capital: £4,000,000 divided into 2,000,000 Ordinary Shares of £1 each and 2,000,000 7 per cent. Preference Shares of £1 each. Issued : 2,000,000 Ordinary Shares of £r each and 1,500,000 Preference Shares of £1 each. Crown House, Aldwycb, London, W.C.2. Columbia Pictures Corporation, Ltd. incorporated September 17, 1929. Directorate: Harry Cohn, Jack Cohn, H. Sydney Wright, A. Schneider, G. R. Webb, Jos. Friedman (Managing Director), and Max Thorpe (Acting Managing Director). Secretary, F. G. Hill. Authorised Capital : £25,000. 139, Wardour Street, London, W.i. Denham Laboratories, Ltd. Incorporated January 9, 1936. Directorate : Harold Boxall (Chairman and Managing Director), Sir David R. Cunyngham, Bt. ; William Harcourt, John Jackson, A.C.A., John Pendleton ; John R. Sutro and Randal Terraneau. Authorised Capital : 66,000 6 per cent. Cumulative Participating Preference Shares of £1 each and 176,500 Ordinary shares of £1 each. Issued Capital: 66,000 6 per cent. Cumulative Participating Preference Shares of £1 each ; 79,000 Ordinary Shares of £1 each. Denham, Lxbridge, Middlesex. Dsnman Picture Houses, Ltd. Incorporated March 12, 1928. Directorate : J. Arthur Rank, J. P. (Chairman), L. W. Farrow (Joint Managing Director (Finance) ), Mark Ostrer (Joint Managing Director), Col. H. A. Micklem, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Maurice Ostrer and R. H. Gillespie. Secretary : W. B. Robinson. AuthorisedCapital : £1,650,000 in 3,300,000 Ordinary Shares of 10s. each. Insured Capital : £1,400,000 in 2,800,000 Ordinary Shares of 10s. each fully paid. Debenture Stock Authorised : £3,027,444. Outstanding: £2,646,656 5 per cent. First Mortgage Debenture Stock. 142-150, Wardour Street, London, W.i. Dufay-Chromex, Ltd. Incorporated January 20, 1936. Directorate : Sir Herbert E. Morgan, K.B.E., (Chairman), D. Daponte, L.S.C., D.Sc. (British, of Roumanian origin), L. Lewit (Brazilian of Russian origin), (Joint Managing Directors), S. J. Cox, Sir A. Dykes Spicer, Bart., J. Leonard Spicer, S. R. Wycherley, Secretary : A. J. Spiers, F.C.I.S. Authorised Capital : £1,000,000. Issued Capital : £983,500. P. & O. House, 14-16, Cockspur Street, S.W.i. Eagle-Lion Distributors, Ltd. Incorporated February 1, 1944. Directorate: J. Arthur Rank. D.L., J. P. (Chairman), E. T. Carr (Managing Director), L. Farrow. Secretary : L. E. Thompson. Capital : £100, in shares of £1 each. 157, Chiltern Court, Baker Street, N.W.i. IN MIND