Kinematograph year book (1939)

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370 The Kinematograph Year Book. BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWS. io, School Road, North Acton, N.W.io. Telephone : Willesden 5511 (6 lines). Editor & Gen. Manager ... G. T. Cummins. News Editor E. J. H. Wright. Make-Up Editor W. Mellor. Technical Supervisor ... E. Law. Asst. Technical Supervisor C. W. Green Accounts Dept E. L. Cohen. Recording System : — Western Electric. BRITISH PICTORIAL PRODUCTIONS, LTD. Registered Offices : 90, Wardour Street, London, W.i. Telephone: Gerrard 3265-6. Managing Director : William C. Jeapes. Studios : (Under direction of Clifford W. Jeapes and Brian Saveall) — 90, Wardour Street, London, W.i. Producing newsreels, Universal News and Empire News Bulletin, Entertainment and Commercial Shorts. BRITISH SCREEN SERVICE, 54-58, Wardour Street. Telephone: Gerrard 6543-4-5. Directorate : M. J. Wilson, G. Wilson, G. S. Ogg. Studios : One floor with Film Recorders recording system. Other facilities include : Rerecording, Interlock, Projection Theatre, Cutting Rooms, Disc Recording (Wax and Direct). Studio Manager K. Rick. Film Editors ... ... K. Rick, C. Leeds. Chief Sound Engineer ... E. Vetter. BUSHEY FILM CORP., LTD. Studios: Melbourne Road, Bushey. Telephone: Bushey Heath 1341. Offices: Suite D, Victory House, 99/101. Regent Street, W.i. Telephone : Regent 4826. Directors : Victor F. Taylor, H. J. Cook, F. R. Smith, and J. V. Couzens. Studios : One stage (2,300 sq. ft.). Recording System : Visatone. FOX BRITISH PICTURES LTD. Fox Studio, Empire Way, Wembley Park Middlesex. Telephone : Wembley 3000. Directorate : F. L. Harley, R. Simmonds, N. H. Nesse {Secretary). Two floors : 12,252 sq. ft. Recording Systems : — Visatone and Asfi-Tobis Studio Manager A. T. Jones. Recording Engineer ... J. Cox. Productions, 193S : "Macushla," "East of Ludgate Hill," "Dial 099," "Murder in the Family,'' "Second Thoughts," "The Last Barricade," "Father O'Nine," "Who Goes Next ? " GAINSBOROUGH PICTURES (1928) LTD. Gainsborough Studios, Islington, N.i. Telephone: Clerkenwell 12 71. Directorate : Mark Ostrer {chairman), Maurice Ostrer. Director of Production and Administration ... ... Maurice Ostrer. Producer Edward Black. Production Manager ... F. Gunn. Studio Manager W. E. Kellino. Film Director under contract Marcel Varnel. Carol Reed. Scenario Editor ... ... Frank Launder. Film Editor R. E. Dearing. Scenarists under contract ... George Marriott ^ Edgar. Val Guest. Michael Pertwee. J. O. C. Orton. Director of Music ... ... Louis Levy. Casting Director Miss Betty White. Dress Supervisor Paula Newman. Publicity Manager ... ... Mae Murray. Art Director A. Vetchinsky. Chief Engineer S. Sargeant. Floor Electrician ... ... A. Pochetty. Cameramen Jack Cox, Arthur Crabtree. Productions, 1938: "Convict 99," "Stange Boarders," "The Lady "Vanishes," " Hev, Hey, U.S.A.", "Old Bones of the River," "A Girl Must Live." GAUMONT BRITISH NEWS. Studios : Lime Grove, Shepherd's Bush. Teleplione : Shepherd's Bush 12 10. Produced by Castleton Knight. Commentated by E. V. H. Emmett. Editor R. S. Howard. Production Manager ... H. W. Bishop. News Manager H. Bromige. Chief Recordist A. Birch. Recording Engineer ... H. Abbott. Cameramen ... ... ... P.Cannon. A. Edmonds. G. Golding. H. Morlev. E. H. Hawkins. A. Willis. A. E. Anbury. F. McLachlan. Recorders A. Prentice. W. Hooker. E. Runkel Chief Cutter R. Drew. Assistant W. Rowe. Contract Manager T. Jordan. Librarians A. Grosvenor aDd H. Turner. Sound Equipment : B.A.F. G. B. INSTRUCTIONAL, LTD. Studios : Lime Grove, W.12. Telephone : Shepherd's Bush 12 10. Directors : Maurice Ostrer (Chairman), Harry Clayton, Mary Field, M.A., Ian Cremieu Javal, H. Bruce Woolfe. C.T. PRECISION FILM EQUIPMENT — FOR — LABORATORY AND STUDIO L. MAURICE CINEMA APPARATUS LTD. SHOWROOMS: 182 WARDOUR STREET, W.I. 'Phone: GERRARD 5228