Kinematograph year book (1944)
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The Kinematograph Year Book.
Gainsborough Pictures (1928), Ltd.
Incorporated April 27, 1928.
Directorate : J. Arthur Rank, J. P. (Chairman), L. W. Farrow, Mark Ostrer and Maurice Ostrer. Secretary : A. W. Robinson. Authorised Capital: £262,500. Issued Capital : £156,250. Film House, Wardour Street, London.
Gaumont-British Distributors, Ltd.
Directorate: J. Arthur Rank, J. P., L. W Farrow, Mark Ostrer, David Ostrer, Leon Gaumont. Secretary : W. B. Robinson. Authorised and Issued Capital: £33,826 of £1 each.
142-150, Wardour Street, London, W.i.
Gaumont-British Picture Corporation, Ltd.
Incorporated March 24, 1927.
Directorate : J. Arthur Rank, J. P. (Chairman), L. W. Farrow (Joint Managing Director (Finance) ), Mark Ostrer (Joint Managing Director), Maurice Ostrer, Col. H. A. Micklem, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. : Lt.-Col. O. H. C. Balfour, C.M.G., C. H. Dade, R. T. Kane (U.S.A.), A. E. Messer and J. M. Gauntlett (U.S.A.) Secretary : W. B. Robinson. Authorised Share Capital: 3,250,000 5^ per cent. Cumulative First Preference Shares of £1 each. 5,000,000 Ordinary Shares of 10s. each, 2,000,000 "A " Ordinary Shares of 5s. each. Issued Share c apital : £3,250,000 5J per cent. Cumulative First Pref. Shares of £1 each fully paid, 5,000,000 Ordinary Shares of 10s. each fully paid, 5,000,000 "A" Ordinary Shares of 5s. each fully paid. Debenture Stock — Authorised : £6,500,000 4! per cent. First Mortgage Debenture Stock. Issued and Outstanding: £5,160,000 less £1,100,709 redeemed to date.
142-150, Wardour Street, London, W.r.
(Registered Offices). 123, Regent Street, London, W.i. (Theatre
Management Offices).
A/cs. Dept. Address: Nevvcombes, Crediton, Devon.
General Theatre Corporation, Ltd.
Incorporated February 11, 1928.
Directorate : J. Arthur Rank, J. P. (Chairman; , Mark Ostrer (Joint Managing Director), L. W. Farrow (Joint Managing Director (Finance) ), George Black and Maurice Ostrer. Secretary : W. B. Robinson.
Authorised Share Capital: 1,250,000 15% Participating
Preferred Ordinary shares
of 6s. 8d. each 416,666 13 4
1,550,833 Ordinary shares of
£1 each 1,550,833 o o
650,000 Ordinary shares of
is. each 32,500 o o
£r,999,999 *3 4
Issued Share Capital:
1,250,000 Participating Preferred Ordinary shares of 6s. 8d. each fully paid ... 416,666 13 4
650,000 Ordinary shares of is.
each fully paid 32,500 o o
£449,166 13 4
6$ per cent. First Mortgage Debenture Stock authorised and issued £2,250,000. Outstanding
£1,799,871. 5^ per cent. Second Mortgage Debenture Stock, authorised £450,000 ; issued £148,803 ; outstanding £145,746. Registered Offices: 142-150, Wardour Street.
London, W.i. Accounts Dept. Address. — Newcombes, Crediton, Devon.
Ilford, Ltd.
Incorporated May 17, 1898.
Directorate: B. L. Drake, F.C.I.S. (Chairman), The Rt. Hon. Lord Milford, W. H. Dimsdale. Sir Philip E. Haldin, Colonel F. W. Evatt, Capt. T. Midglev Illingworth and Major The Hon. J. P. Philipps. Secretary : W. E. H. Metcalfe, M.C., A.C.A. Authorised Capital: £1,400,000. Issued Capital: £1,264,200. 23, Roden Street, Ilford, Essex.
General Film Distributors, Ltd.
Incorporated May 27, 1935. Directorate: J. Arthur Rank, J. P. (Chairman), L. W. Farrow, M. Woolf, S. F. Ditcham, Barrington C. Gain and R. F. Morland. Secretary : Harold Rogers. Issued Capital: £270,000. Private Company. 127-133, Wardour Street, London, W.i.
G.B. Equipments, Ltd.
Incorporated June 9, 1933. Directorate : J. Arthur Rank, J. P. (Chairman), L. W. Farrow, Mark Ostrer, VV. B. Robinson, I. H. Cremieu-Javal and H. R. A. de Jonge, Secretary : H. S. White. Authorised and Issued (apital: £5,000 of £r each. Private Company. 142-150. Wardour Street, London, W.i.
G-B Instructional, Ltd.
Incorporated November 6, 1933.
Directorate : J. Arthur Rank, J. P. (Chairman), L. W. Farrow, Mark Ostrer, 1. H. Cremieu-Javal, H. Bruce Woolfe and Miss Mary Field, M.A. Secretary: A. E. Shields. Authorised and Issued Capital: 2,000 in £1 Shares. Private Company. 142--150, Wardour Street, London, W.i,
Kodak, Limited.
Incorporated, November 15th, 1898. Directorate : Walter Gregory Bent, Ernest Edgar Blake, Harold Stuart Carpenter, The Rt. Hon. Lord Pender, The Rt. Hon. Lord Brabazon of Tara, M.C., P.C. ; Frank William Lovejoy, and Arthur Douglas Page, William Heatley Faulkner and Donald McMaster. Secretary : William Heatley Faulkner. Authorised and Issued ( apital : 350,000 £1 Ordinary Shares. Kodak House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2.
Mejro-Geldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Ltd.
Incorporated August 20, 1924. Directorate: S. Eckman, Junr. (Man. Director), Morton A. Spring, Robert Rubin and J. C. Squier. Secretary, Matthew Raymond, A.C.A. Authorised Capital: £200,000. Issued Capital: 100,000 Ordinary Shares of £1 each and 57,455 7 per cent. Preference Shares. Scotsbridge Mill, Rickmansworth, Herts.
Moss' Empires, Ltd.
Incorporated December 15, 1899.
Directorate : Richard Henry Gillespie (Chairman), George Black (Managing Director), Walter Payne, Alfred Claude Bromhead, Reginald Charles Bromhead, Mark Ostrer, David Simpson and Valentine Charles Parnell. Secretary : David Simpson, S.S.C. Authorised