Kinematograph year book (1935)

Trade Organisations 139 THE BRITiSH FILM INSTITUTE. Governors : His Grace the Duke of Sutherland, K.T. (Chairman) ; F. W. Baker ; Colonel John Buchan, C.H., M.P. ; A. C. Cameron, M.C., M.A. ; Sir Charles Cleland, K.B.E., M.V.O., LL.D. ; R. S. Lambert. M.A. ; J. J.^Lawson, M.P.; LadvLevita; Thos. Ormiston, C.B.E., M.P. ; and C. M. Woolf. Offices : 4, Great Russell Street, London, W.C.i. General Manager: J. W. Brown. Secretary: Reginald V. Crow. Telephone : Museum 0607-8. The main object of the British Film Institute will be to encourage the use and development of the cinematograph as a means of entertainment and instruction and to this end it will undertake : — (a) To act as a clearing house for information on all matters affecting films at home and abroad. (b) To influence public opinion to appreciate value of films as entertainment and instruction. (c) To advise educational and other institutions on the supply, use and exhibition of films. (d) To act as a means of liaison between the trade and cultural and educational interests. (e) To undertake research into the various uses of the film and of allied visual and auditory apparatus. (/) To maintain a national repository of films of permanent value. (g) To catalogue educational and cultural films. (A) To give advice to Government Departments concerned with films, (t) To certify films as educational, cultural or scientific. 0") To undertake, if required, similar duties in relation to the Empire. (k) To establish branches and local associations to promote the objects of the Institute. WHITE ClNEnflA CLUB, BELFAST. President : D. D. Young, Lyric Cinema, Belfast. ('PJiane: Belfast 3434). Treasurer: Councillor George Gray, J. P. Fort Garry, Cregagh, Belfast. Hon. Secretary : J. H. Craig, Midland Picture House, 7-9, Canning Street, Belfast. Formed for safeguarding trades interests in Northern Ireland, and also for social purposes. SOUND FILM MUSIC BUREAU LIMITED. Office: 9A, Sackville Street, Piccadilly, London, W.i. Telephone: Regent 4381. Telegrams : ' ' Dixerat, Phone, London." Manager : Charles J. Dixey. Secretary : Joyce M. Dixey. Council : Leslie A. Boosey, Frederick Day, F. McMillan, F. Slevin, Herbert Smith, and T. H. Watson. The Sound Film Music Bureau, Ltd., a company limited by guarantee, was formed in August, 1934, to take over the work, hitherto carried on by the Talking Film Department of the Music Publishers' Association, Ltd., regarding the use of copyright music in sound films. All enquiries regarding such use of music should now be addressed to the Bureau. The Bureau is not a profit-making concern, and it is intended to develop it with the object of making it increasingly useful to Film Producers, Musical Directors, and others using music in sound films . NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF THEATRICAL EMPLOYEES. Offices : 34, Little Newport Street, London, W.C.2. Telegraphic Address : Stageland, Lesquare, London. Telephone: Gerrard 5214. General Secretary : T. O'Brien. Official Organ : "Amusement Workers' News. ' Affiliated to the Trade Union Congress London, and Provincial Trades Council. INCORPORATED SOCIETY OF AUTHORS, PLAYWRIGHTS AND COMPOSERS. Offices : 11, Gower Street, W.C.i. Secretary : D. Kilham Roberts. Kinema Committee : Chairman: Edgar Jepson. Arthur Applin. Douglas Furber. Victor Bridges. Selwyn Jepson. Kenelm Foss. Rafael Sabatini. FYKIRITOIK f The only SATISFACTORY transport CjATlIPl 1 v«u • for fiims is MQJOR ROAD TRANSPORT. Your special needs ere studied and your programmes delivered and collected at the Cinema, The ONLY SATISFACTORY transport for films is MOTOR ROAD TRANSPORT. Write or phone for full particulars : — FILM TRANSPORTERS' ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN 26, CHARING CROSS ROAD, W.C2. Telephone : Temple Bar 1623.