Kinematograph Year Book 1942 (1942)
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British Studios.
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Mitchell ; Production Company : Butcher's Film Service, Ltd. "Banana Ridge" — Director, Walter C. Mycroft ; Production Company : Associated British Picture Corporation, Ltd. "The Night Has Eyes" — Director, Leslie Arliss ; Production Company : Associated British Picture Corporation, Ltd. "Spring Meeting " (A.B.P.C.) ; "The Team " (M. of I.).
WEMBLEY FILM STUDIO, LTD.
(Formerly Fox British Pictures, Ltd.) Empire Way, Wembley Park, Middlesex.
Telephone : Wembley 3000. Directorate : F. L. Harley, K. N. Hargreaves R. Sutton Dawes. Secretary: N. H. Nesse. Two floors : 12,252 sq. ft. Recording Systems : Visatone and Asn-Tobis Studio Manager : A. T. Jones. Productions, 1941 : " It's Turned Out Nice Again " (Model work only), "Ships with Wings," " The Big Blockade." Taken over by Crown and Service Units.
WORTON HALL STUDIOS, LTD
Isleworth, Middlesex.
Telephone : Hounslow 2323.
Head Office : Quality House, Quality
Court, Chancery Lane, W.C.2.
Directorate : Capt. A. S. Cunningham-Reid,
M.P., M. Middleton (Secretary), Alan H.
Hawes, F.C.A.
Three stages : 130 ft. by 86 ft., 130 ft. by 45 ft.,
100 ft. by 45 ft. ; one silent stage seven-acre
exterior lot.
Two channels Western Electric wide range equipment. Hydraulic camera crane. One Vinten and two super-Parvo-Debrie cameras ; back projector.
YOUNGER FILM PRODUCTIONS, LTD.
War-time Address : i6,Harman Drive, N.W.2.
Telephone : Gladstone 6641/2.
Directors : H. Adley, I. Isaacs, J. D. Marks,
S. H. Bell, F. N. Bloomfield.
Studios, Great Windmill Street, W.i.
Advertising Films.
BRITISH PRODUCTION UNITS.
(Other than those possessing their own Studios.)
ALEXANDER KORDA FILM PRODUCTIONS LTD.
Denham Studios, Denham, Uxbridge,
Middlesex.
Telephone : Denham 2345.
Directorate: Alexander Korda (Cliairman and
Managing Director), Hugh Quennell, Zoltan
Korda, H. G. Boxall, Sir David Cunyng
hame, Bart., W. Mortimer.
ARQYLE BRITISH PRODUCTIONS, LTD.
Welwyn Studios, Welwyn Garden City,
Herts.
Telephone : Welwyn Garden 3241.
Chairman : F. H. Argyle.
Managing Director ... John Argyle.
ASSOCIATED INDEPENDENT PRODU0ERS OF GREAT BRITAIN, LTD.
" Nightingale Corner," Nightingale Road, Bushey, Herts.
Telephone : Bushey Heath 1714.
(See Widgey R. Newman Productions.)
BRITISH AVIATION PICTURE8 LIMITED
The Manor, Davies Street, Berkeley
Square, W.i.
Telephone : MAYfair 4016.
Registered Office :
9, Idol Lane, Eastcheap, E.C.3.
Directorate : G. King, C. Philcox, and Stafford.
Producer John Stafford.
Film Director ... George King.
Scenarists ... ... Miles Malleson.
Henry C. James. Publicity Dillon Damen.
BRITISH AND DOMINIONS FILM CORPORATION, LTD.
Imperial Studios, Boreham Wood, Herts.
Telephone : Elstree n 72. Directorate: E. Ronald Crammond (Chairman), C. M. Woolf, Capt. The Hon. R. Norton, W. H. Cockburn ; Secretary : A. L. Dugon, A.C.A.
BRITISH FILMS, LTD.
Temporary A ddress :
260, High Road, Balham, S.W.17.
Telephone: Battersea 8506/7.
Directorate: Rt. Hon. Lord Eltisley, K.B.E.,
Rt. Hon. Lord Denham ; J. Moores ;
H. C. J. Russell Smith. General Manager ... K. L. Lockstone. Director of Production Harvey Harrison. Production Manager Stanley E. Morris.
J. Rose and H. Orchard. Carol Harvey.
Cameramen Scenarist
Works Manager and Designer ...
J. Briggs.
BRITISH FINE ART8 PICTURE8, LTD.
" Croylands," 14, Upper Brighton Road,
Surbiton, Surrey.
Telephone : Elmbridge 5211-2-3.
Directorate : E. Godal, H. Henri, R. Neall
M.A. General Manager ... N.H.Clarke,
BRITISH FOUNDATION PICTURE8, LTD.
Lindsay House, 171, Shaftesbury Avenue,
W.C.2.
Telephone : Temple Bar 8577. Provincial Office: 5, Spot Chambers,Derby. Telephone : Derby 2874. Directorate : W . R. Hutchinson, B.Sc. (Man. Director), D. R. MacGregor, M. J. Hutchinson. Film Director ... ... Ronald Haines.
Cameraman ... .. R. Wyer.
Productions, 1941 : Documentary entertainment "shorts," Industrial and Propaganda films for Government Departments and training.
BRITISH NATIONAL FILM8, LTD.
Head Office : Rock Studios, Boreham Wood , Herts. Telephone : Elstree 1644. Directorate : G. W. Parish, F.C.I.S. (Chairman) Lady Yule, J. Baxter, L. H. Jackson.
Secretary A. L. Dugon, A.C.A.
Associate Producers . . Wallace Orton Richard Vernon.