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 #:
00022
Language:
English
Collection:
United Kingdom, Global Cinema, Government & Law, and Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
June 20, 2024
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3. GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE. Some of these defects, if not all of them, became apparent, as has been said, in the course of the later Parliamentary Debates ; and that you, Sir, and your colleagues in the Cabinet were conscious of them is shown by the following significant succession of events : — May 2jthy 1932 : Mr. Oliver Stanley, UnderSecretary of State for Home Affairs, welcomed a proposal made by Colonel John Buchan, M.P., in the House of Commons, that a certain proportion of the receipts at Sunday cinemas should be set aside to finance a National Film Institute on the lines outlined by the Commission on Educational and Cultural Films.* June i^thy 1932 : Sir Herbert Samuel, Secretary of State for the Home Department, during a discussion by Standing Committee B., asked for an amendment to the above effect to be withdrawn, and suggested in its place a clause whereby the money would be paid to the Privy Council and then allotted by them, either to the institute or to others, for the development of films for educational and cultural pur poses. f June zgth, 1932 : Mr. Stanley moved a clause on Report to the effect that the money should be paid into a Cinematograph Fund to be administered by the Privy Council, and applied, not necessarily either to the Institute or to any other organisation concerned with educational or cultural films, but, * Parliamentary Debates — House of Commons — Vol. 266, No. 99, Col. 799. t Parliamentary Debates — House of Commons (Standing Committee B) — June 14th, 1932, Cols. 104-107. Page 18