Kinematograph year book (1950)

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nn The Kinematograph Year Book. Soho (Sales) ; chairman, Howse Mead and Sons. Clnb : Savage. Addresses : Office : Imperial House, 80-S2, Regent Street, London, W.i. Tel. : Regent 7222. Private : " Little Court." Sunningdale, Berks. CREWS, LAURENCE VICTOR, C.M.A. Western Theatre Controller, b. 19 14 ; entered industry 1929 ; Odeon 1933 ; appointed theatre controller, 1947 ; Bristol Branch C.E.A. delegate. Addresses : Office : Odeon, Bristol 1. Tel.: 22614. Private: "The Homestead," Shrubberv Avenue, Weston-SuperMare. Tel.: 1428. CRICHTON, CHARLES, film director, Ealing Studios, Ltd. ; b. 1910, Wallasey. Formerly film editor, London Film Prods. ; editor documentary films, Ealing, 1940 ; associate producer for "Nine Men"; director "For those in Peril," " Painted Boats," " Hue and Cry," " Against the Wind," "Another Shore." Addresses : Office : Ealing Studios, Ltd., "Filing Green, W.5. Tel. : Ealing 6761, Private : Mull Cottage, Denham, Middlesex. Tel. : Denham 2466. CRICKS, REGINALD HOWARD, 7.7.775.. F.R.P.S., technical consultant to B.K.S. and editor British Kinematograpky ; technical editor Idea.1 Kinema ; member of British Film Academy ; director, Dugdale Printing, Ltd. ; Son of George H. Cricks. Has specialised in the technical branch of the trade, having been for 10 years with W. Vinten, and, since 1926, in business as kinematograph engineer and consultant. Has designed much apparatus for studio, dark-room and kinema, and is a regular contributor to the technical pages of the Kine. Weekly. Addresses : Office : Carnegie House, 117,' Piccadilly, W.i. Tel. : Grosvenor 4396 7. Private : 6, Dulverton Road, Selsdon, South Croydon. Tel. : Sanderstead 1403. CROMIE, ROBERT, 7.7C.I.B.A., architect, specialist in theatres and kinema s. b. 1887. Late Lt-Col. R.E. Address: 10, Manchester Square, London, W.i. Tel. : Welbeck 3620. CROYDON, JOHN, producer, b. 1907, London; entered industry as location accountant, Gainsborough Pictures, 1931 ; assistant studio manager, G. B., 1932 ; studio manager, Gainsborough, 1934 ; G. B., 1935 ; construction manager, M-G-M, British, 1937 ; production manager Irving Asher Productions, 1939 ; production supervisor, Ealing Studios. 1940 ; associate producer, Ealing Studios, 1944 ; in charge productions Highbury Studios, 1947-4S ; Production supervisor, Coronado Productions (England), Ltd., 1949. Addresses: Private: 23. Fitzjohns & London, N.W.3. TeL : Hampstead 8253. CUNNINGHAM, ARTHUR, chairman, Londesborough and Capitol, Scarborough ; Queen's Theatre, Leeds ; formerly furniture manufacturer and kinema equipment specialist ; equipped first kinemas about 1897; joined late Sydney Carter and formed New Century Pictures, Ltd., 1905, subsequently acquired by Denman Picture Houses, Ltd. ; expresident of Cinema Veterans ; on board of management, C.T.B.F. for 24 years ; original member Council Cinema Defence (now C.E.A.), about 1908. Address : Tower Crest, Heysham, Morecambe. Tel. : Heysham 17 and Leeds 58541 CU R R AN, JAMES, gen eril ~Lr.3.ger, and director of Curran Theatres, b. 1906, ed. St. Malachv's College, Belfast. Addresses: Office: 465. Antrim Road, Belfast. TeL: 43228-9, Private : Waterloo Park, Belfast. DALRYMPLE, IAN MURRAY, BJL, 7.R.S.A., film producer and director of "Wessex Film Prods. Ltd. ; b. 1903 ; ed. Rugby ; Trinity College, Cambridge. Entered industry 1927 ; supervising editor Gainsborough and G.-B., 1932-35 ; screenplay-writer, 1935-39; executive producer, Crown Film Unit, 1940-43 ; productions include; "Esther Waters," "The Woman in the HaH," " Once a Jolly Swagman," " All Over the Town," " Mr. Pfohack," ' ' The Wooden Horse . " Add re-iS&s : _ Office : Wessex Film Productions, Ltd., 87, Bishopsgate, E.C.2. TeL : London Wall 2537. Private : The Manor, Bourton-on-the-Water, Glos. TeL : Bourton-on-the-Water 383. DALRYMPLE, J, BLAKE, 17. Z . A.R.P.5.. M.B.K.S., F.R.G.S., F.R.S.A., director, Films of Africa, Ltd. ; b. 1912 ; ed. Sedbergh ; pioneer co-producer of classroom films, later known as Carrick series. Specialist in photography ; has made fH-ms, in South America, Poland, Germany and continent of Africa ; producing documentaries in Southern Rhodesia. Address : Wick Estate, P.O. Box 94, Gatooma, Southern Rhodesia. D ALTON, L> W., founded Star Illustration Works, Ltd. Joined M. P. Sales in 1910 to edit Pictures, first fan paper, and take charge of advertising tor Biograph, Kalem, Lubin, and later Famous Players ; edited magazines for Pearsons and Arr.^izi^ri Press. Address : Star, D'Arblay Street, W.i. TeL : Gerrard 3033. DANIELS, A,, 7 5 A.A., secretary, Portsmouth and Isie of Wight branch and Sussex branch C.E.A. ; senior partner, A. Daniels & Co., incorporated accountants ; b. 1889. Southampton. Addresses : Office : Albemarle House, Osborne Road, Southsea, TeL : 73645 ; 75, West Street, Fareham., Tel. : 3056 ; Private : No. 6, Xetley Mansions, South Parade, Southsea. Tel. : Portsmouth 31495. DAN1SCHEWSKY, MOIWA, associate producer, Ealing Studios ; entered trade as publicity assistant, M-G-M ; appointed Ealing companies, 1938 ; later became script writer ; part author screenplay "Undercover"; author " Greek Testament " ; publicity director Ealing 1943 ; associate producer, "Whiskey Galore," 1943. Address: Ealing Studios, Ealing Green, W.5. Tel. : Ealing 6761. DAPONTE, DEMETRE L. D.Sc, L.S.C. (Antwerp), managing director Dufav Chromex, Ltd. ; Spicer-Dufay (British), Ltd. ; Dufaycolor, Ltd. ; British Industrial Laboratories ; Polyfoto (England), Ltd. ; Coronet, Ltd. ; Dufaylite, Ltd. ; b. 1896 ; mechanical, optical and ihuminant research work; in charge study of ' ' Persistence of vision," Sorbonne, Paris. Study of stereoscopic projection, which established the pulsograph system. Research work on colour photography ; gave lectures and demonstration on stereoscopy, British Association and Royal Academy ; financed many mechanical, chemical and optical inventions. Addresses : Office : 14, Cockspur Street, S.W.i., TeL : Whitehall 6747 ; Private : Fairlie Place, Withdean, Sussex, TeL : Preston 3018.