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 #:
00037
Language:
English
Collection:
Books, United Kingdom, Global Cinema, 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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3. CLAIM TO GOVERNMENT SUPPORT. It is stated in an official document recently issued by the " British Film Institute "* that, "it is neither set up nor controlled by the State, though its aims and constitution have been approved by the Board of Trade." A letter sent to the Press over the signature of its Chairman, the Duke of Sutherland, f also stated that " the constitution and aims of the Institute have been submitted to and approved by the Board of Trade." These statements — like those made regarding the support behind the Commission's report in June, 1932, examined on pages 15—17 — may easily confuse the public ; since all the Board of Trade has done is to issue a licence to the Institute under Section 18 of the Companies Act, 1929, similar to the licences it issues to many other companies ; and, as the Controller of the Companies Department of the Board of Trade states in a letter dated December 29th, 1933, " the grant of a licence under Section 18 of the Act to an Association within the scope of the section, does not in itself confer on a company so registered the right to claim or hold itself out to be in receipt of any Government recognition or authority for its acts." " The Board," he also writes in the same letter, " have not been called upon to approve the aims and constitution of the British Film Institute as such." * " The British Film Institute : Its Aims and Objects." | E.g., in The Times, Dec. 23rd, 1933. Page 33