Documentary News Letter (1940)

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STRAND CELEBRATES ITS 5th ANNIVERSARY IN FIVE YEARS STRAND HAS: made 50 first-flight documentary films STRAND HAS: substantially helped to open up the cinemas to documentary films STRAND HAS: worked for: The National Book Council, the National Council of Social Service, the Federated Malay States Government, Imperial Airways, British Airways, the Great Western Railway, the Southern Railway, Petroleum Films Bureau, Film Centre, Colonial Empire Marketing Board, Films of Scotland Committee, the British Council, the National Fitness Council, the Ministry of Information, the Ministry of Labour, the British Medical Association, the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, the Ulster Tourist Association, the Land Settlement Association, the League of Nations, the Air Ministry, the Workers' Travel Association, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, Shell Marketing Company. STRAND THANKS: Its past producers, paul rotha and stuart legg, and welcomes Alexander shaw to this position, all of whom have contributed so much to the Company's success. Its permanent staff and those documentary producers and directors who have worked on individual films. The progressive members of the film trade who have encouraged its work. STRAND STARTS ITS ANNIVERSARY YEAR WITH FIVE NEVy^ PRODUCTIONS IN WORK DONALD F. TAYLOR, MANAGING DIRECTOR 5a UPPER ST. .MARTINS LANE, LONDON, W.C.2 MERTON PARK STUDIOS, 269 KINGSTON ROAD, LONDON, S.W.I9 Owned aiitl published by Film Centre Ltd.. J4 Soho Square. Lond'n. It'. I . cmJ primed by Sinison Shan.l Ltd.. The Shenvul Pres<i. London and Hertford