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absorbing some of the attacks on the trade " ?* Is it surprising that, of an official deputation of nine, purporting to represent equally the educational forces of the country and the film industry, who waited upon the Under-Secretary at the Home Office in the hope of securing his approval of the new Constitution for the Institution on which they had agreed, no fewer than seven were closely connected with the film trade, all except one of them in an official capacity ?f Or that, when the PostmasterGeneral, in November, 1933, regretted his inability to hand over to the " British Film Institute " the Film Library of the Empire Marketing Board which he had just taken into his own service, the film trade took no steps to conceal its paternal disappointment ?J
* One of the film trade governors of the Institute, Mr. T. Ormiston, C.B.E., M.P., has himself confessed to a similar conversion. The Cinematograph Times reports him as having said, at a meeting of The General Council of The Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association (of which he is Honorary Treasurer), that, although in the early days of the Commission he had been opposed to their activities, having regard to the fact that they would in no way interfere with purely trade matters or censorship, he had changed his opinion.
f On February 9th, 1933. The nine who formed the Deputation were Mr. R. E. Richards, President of the Cinema Exhibitors' Association ; Mr. Sam Eckman, President of the Kinema Renters' Society ; Mr. T. Ormiston, M.P., Ex-President and Hon. Treasurer of the Cinema Exhibitors' Association ; Mr. Arthur Dent, VicePresident of the Kinema Renters' Society ; Mr. Simon Rowson, Managing Director of Ideal Films Ltd., and a Director of the Gaumont -British Picture Corporation ; Colonel John Buchan, M.P., a Director of the British Instructional Film Co. ; Mr. F. A. Hoare, Education Director of the Western Electric Company ; Sir Benjamin Gott ; and Mr. R. S. Lambert. See Today's Cinema, February 7th and 10th, 1933.
% E.g., in a letter of protest from the Film Group of the Federation of British Industries to the Board of Trade summarized in The Times of November 24th, 1933, and given great prominence in the film trade journals.
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