Kinematograph year book (1950)

72 The Kinematograph Year Book. FRANCE, THOMAS NICHOLSON, director, Park Picture Theatre Co., Ltd. ; Rex Cinema, Finchley, Ltd. ; F. H. Pride, Ltd. ; treasurer London branch, C.E.A. ; delegate to General Council; secretary, Cinema Veterans (1903) ; b. 1885. Joined late Sidney Bacon, 1896, and was associated with him in all branches of entertainment business. Address : 59, Woodland Rise, Muswell Hill, London, N.io. Tel. : Tudor 2132 and Museum 0751. FRASER, INGRAM A. P. b. 1905 ; ed. privately, Switzerland, Germany, France and Spain ; managing director, Films de France ; publicity director, London Films, 1947 ; previously in advertising and public relations, U.S.A. and England. Addresses : Office : West End House, 6, Rupert Street, W.i. Tel. : Gerrard 6594. Private : 46, Lowndes Square, S.W.i. Tel. : Sloane 8329. FRAUNHOFER, HANS von., president, Chromart Film Industries, Inc., New York ; managing director, Anglo-American Colour Photographic Industries, Ltd. ; b. 1893, Temesvar, Hungary. Inventor of the " Chromart " process for colour photography and colour cinematography. Addresses : Office, 30, Queen's Grove, St. John's Wood, N.W.8. Tel. : Primrose 3734. Private : 19, Fitzalan Road, Finchley, N.3. Tel. : Finchley 0754. Cables, Fraunhofer, London. FREEDMAN, ABE, exhibitor ; member L. and H.C. branch, C.E.A. committee ; delegate to General Council ; b. 1877, Dowlais, S. Wales ; chairman, L. and H.C. branch, 1940. Addresses : Offices : The Regal, Minehead. Tel. : 439, Queens, Minehead. Tel. : 843. Private : no, Bickenhall Mansions, Baker Street, W.i. Tel. : Welbeck 5990. FRENCH, HAROLD, director-producer ; b. 1899, London. Addresses : c /o Connies, Ltd., 92, Regent Street, W.i. Tel.: Regent 4542. Private: 29, Yeomans Row, London,S. W.3. FRENCH, SIR HENRY L., G.B.E., K.C.B., director-general British Film Producers Association ; chairman Film Casting Association, Ltd. b. 1883 ; educated Southsea and Kings College, London ; entered Civil Service, 1901 ; general secretary, Food Production department, 1917-20 ; represented United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, etc., at the International Institute of Agriculture, Rome, 1930-34 ; appointed director of Food (Defence Plans) Department, November, 1936 ; secretary, Ministry of Food, 1939-45 ; made official visits to U.S. and Canada in 1943 ; India, 1944 ; Australia and New Zealand, 1945-46 ; South Africa, April,. 1946, to advise Union Government on its food problems ; retired from the Civil Service, June, 1946 ; appointed director-general of B.F.P.A., August 1, 1946. President, British Film Production Joint Apprenticeship and Training Council, and chairman of the Joint Film Production Council ; delegate to U.N.E.S.C.O., Annual Conference, Mexico City, November, 1947. Address : 49, Mount Street, W.i. Tel. : Regent 0313. FRENCH, ALD. R. DUNCAN, J.P., managing director, Tunnel Road, Picturedrome, Ltd. ; director, Liverpool Majestic Picture Palace, Ltd., and secretary of several companies, b. 1872, Kendal. Incorporated accountant. Became interested in flotation of Picturedrome Companies, 1912 ; after membership of City Council for 21 years, was Lord Mayor of City of Liverpool, 1942-43, Addresses : Arran, Dowhills Road, Blundellsands, Liverpool, and 17, N. John Street, Liverpool. Tel . : Great Crosby 2202 ; Central 5836. FREND, CHARLES, film director, b. 1909 ; ed. King's School, Canterbury ; Trinity College, Oxford. Entered industry, 1931 ; joined Ealing Studios, 1941 ; films include : "The Big Blockade," "The Foreman went to France," " San Demetrio, London " " The Return of the Vikings," " Johnny Frenchman " "The Lo^es of Toanna Godden." "Scott of the Antarctic," "A Run for Your Money." Address : Ealing Studios, Ealing Green, London, W.5. Tel. : Ealing 6761. FREWIN, LESLIE RONALD, M.B.K.S., director of studio publicity for A.B.P.C., Elstree and Welwyn Studios ; b. 1916. Entered industry, 1936. Addresses : Office : Elstree Studios, Boreham Wood, Elstree, Herts. Tel. : Elstree 1600. Private : 26, Hesper Mews, St. Marv Abbotts, Kensington, S.W.5. FULLER, W. R., general secretary of C.E.A., barrister-at-law ; succeeded W. Gavazzi King, first general secretary in 1925 ; he has been associated since that date, and before, with every important trade movement and development, and has been responsible for the preparation of much material which has found its way into legislation for the better regulation of the trade. Address: 164, Shaftesbury, Avenue, W.C.2. Tel.: Temple Bar 7864-9. FULLERTON, WILLIAM JAMES, LL.B., chairman and director, Apollo Films, Ltd. ; Apollo Film Prods., Ltd. b. 1888 ; ed. University of Tasmania, Australia. Director of Palace Pictures, Hobart, Tasmania, 1912. Addresses : Office : 5, Bishopsgate, E.C.2, Tel. : Avenue 2714. Private : St. Faiths. 11, Alleyn Park, West Dulwich, S.E.21. Tel. : Gipsy Hill, 3772. FURSE, WILLIAM FRANCIS, M.I.E.E., chairman, W. J. Furse and Co., and subsidiary companies, b. 1884 ; ed. Nottingham University. Founded firm of electrical engineers ; managing director for over 30 years. Addresses : Office : Traffic Street, Nottingham. Tel. : 88213. Private : Pelham Lodge, Ruddington, Nottingham. Tel. : Ruddington 92. GAMBLE, B. T. S., F.R.S.A., M.S.I.E., M.B.K.S., director, switchgear dept. F. H. Pride, Ltd. ; apprenticed to electrical engineering with B.T.-H. ; served successively with English Electric Company and Courtaulds, Ltd., Coventry ; joined Micklewright, Ltd., as manager, 1927 ; became associated with F. H. Pride, Ltd., 1935. Address : 81, High Street, Clapham, S.W.4. Tel. : Macaulay 2281. GARLING, W. F., M.B.K.S., M.S.M.P.E., director RCA Photophone, Ltd. ; also manager, reproducer equipment dept., RCA ; b. 1903 ; first associated with development of sound apparatus in 1927, in the laboratories of General Electric Company, Schenectady; joined engineering dept., RCA, April, 1928 ; transferred to RCA Photophone, Ltd., London, 1929. Addresses : Office, 36, Woodstock Grove, Shepherd's Bush, W.12. Tel. : Shepherd's Bush 1200. Private : 20, Blythwood Road, Pinner. Tel. : Pinner 5447