The cinema and the public: a critical analysis of the origin, constitution, and control of the British Film Institute (1934)

Record Details:

Title:
The cinema and the public: a critical analysis of the origin, constitution, and control of the British Film Institute
Date:
1934
Publisher:
London : Ivor Nicholson and Watson Limited
Volume:
The cinema and the public : a critical analysis of the origin, constitution, and control of the "British Film Institute"
Leaf #:
0009
Language:
English
Collection:
Global Cinema, Books, United Kingdom, and Government & Law
Format:
Books
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
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PREFACE 'TpHE Cinematograph Fund, which is made up of part of the receipts at Sunday cinemas, has now been in existence for a year ; and a decision by the Privy Council regarding the use to which it is to be put is believed to be imminent. The analysis which follows of the origin, constitution and control of " The British Film Institute " (which has applied to the Privy Council for a substantial grant) is self-explanatory and fully documented. The reader may find it convenient, however, to be made acquainted at the outset with the main conclusions to which it has led. I accordingly give them here in brief, while asking the reader to take none of them on trust but to examine for himself the facts on which they are based, and which are set out on the succeeding pages. 1. At the time, in the summer of 1932, when the Sunday Entertainments Bill was being considered by Parliament, a " Commission on Educational and Cultural Films " issued a report advocating the establishment of a National Film Institute. It was to have Page 5