Kinematograph year book (1939)

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Record Details:

Title:
Kinematograph year book
Date:
1939
Publisher:
London : Kinematograph Publications Ltd.
Volume:
Kinematograph year book (1939)
Leaf #:
000404
Language:
English
Collection:
Year Book and Global Cinema
Format:
Annuals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 25, 2024
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374 The Kinematograph Year Book. choked arc on travelling cradle ; two 50-amp. choked arcs ; two 100-amp. floods ; two 35 automatic broadsides, etc. Max. amp. available over 1,00^ amp. at no volts. One 220 volt line to carry 100 amps. PINEWOOD STUDIOS, LTD. PlNEWOOD, IVER HEATH, BUCKS. Telephone : Iver 460. Registered Office: Pinewood Studios. Telegrams : Pinestudio, Iver Heath. Cables : Pinestudio, London. Directorate : J. Arthur Rank (Chairman) ; E. Ronald Crammond, C. M. Woolf, The Hon. R. Norton (Managing Director), Charles Boot, H. J. V. Hake, Spencer M. Reis, W. H. Cockburn, H. G. Judd, C.B.E., A. L. Dugon (General Secretary), M. L. Axworthy (Secretary). PUBLICITY FILMS, LTD. Filmicity House, Upper St. Martin's Lane, London, W.C.2. Telephone : Temple Bar 5420 Studio : 269, Kingston Road, Merton Park, S.W.19. Telephone: Liberty 4291. Directorate : J. A. M. Bond, G. Harrison, F. A. Hoare, P. L. Palmerton, H. L. Marsterson, E. P. L. Pelly and G. E. Turner. Sound Equipment : Western Electric. RIVERSIDE STUDIOS. Crisp Road, Hammersmith, W.6. Telephone: Riverside 3012 (3 lines). Studios comprise two floors equipped with Visatone silent track recording ; full modern lighting equipment, first-class offices, theatre, etc. JOE ROCK PRODUCTIONS. In Liquidation. Rock Studios, Boreham Wood, Elstree. Telephone: Elstree 1644. Registered Offices : — 122, Wardour Street, W.t. Four sound stages and spacious exterior lot, Studio Manager ... ... Gerry Blattner. Recording Chief W. H. O. Sweeny. Recording System: — "Visatone" and RCA ultra violet. SOUND CITY (FILMS), LTD. S VODios and Administrative Offices : Sound City, Shepperton, Middlesex. Telephone: Chertsey 2211 /8. Chairman and Managing Director: Norman G. W. Loudon. Secretary and General Manager L. Grandneld Hill. Asst. General Manager and export manager ... ... W. L. Garton. Studio Manager P. Bell. Sound Engineer ... ... J. K. Byers. Cameraman J. Parker. Chief Engineer R. J. Duxon. Studio space : 7 stages — -2 size 150ft. by 120 ft.; 2 size 120 ft. by 100 ft. ; 1 size 100 ft. by 80 ft., and 2 size 70 ft. by 40 ft. Stages can be utilised to give a total length shot of 268 ft., are airconditioned and four are fitted with tanks. 60 acres of grounds, including river, gardens, woodland, park, jungie, and ornamental lake. Recording Systems : Three Mobile Channels : Two RCA and one Visatone with silent track. Equipment includes latest model Debrie cameras, camera crane, modern lighting, tubular scaffolding, back-projection, play-back, wind machine, 12 cutting rooms, 3 viewing theatres, vaults, post-recording theatre, RCA and Visatone dubbing equipment. Power supply from 5 Ruston Hornsby Diesel engines and electric generators with reserve battery set giving an output of 17,000 amps, at no volts. Scenic docks with large stocks of sets available for use by tenants. Workshops are fully equipped with the most modern machinery and equipment for facilitating the work of carpenters, plasterers, painters and electricians. Catering : A portion of the premises is licensed as a hotel and includes restaurant accommodation for all purposes. The company specialises in the supply to independent producers of studio space with all necessary service. SCOTTISH FILMS PRODUCTIONS (1928), LTD. 26, India Street, Glasgow. Telephone : Central 9377-9378. Directorate: Malcolm M. Irvine, N. A. Irvine, Stanley L. Russell. Recording System : Albion Truphonic. Processing Plant : Debrie and Vinten. Production Manager ... Stanley L. Russell. Studio Manager GrahamThompson Film Director Henry Cooper. Scenarists George Blake. Jack House. A. D. Mackie. Film Editor Stanley L. Russell. Art Director Duncan Campbell. Chief Engineer Malcolm M.Irvine. Floor Electrician Robert Adams. Cameramen ... ... ... Graham Thompson. Henry Cooper. Martyn Wilson. Ian Barrowman. Harry Lester. Publicity Manager ... Stanley L. Russell. Productions, 1938: "Sam the Assassin," " World of Steel," " Romance of Engineering," "Nonsenses," "The River Clyde," "Sport in Scotland, ' ' ' 'Culross, " " Glasgow, ' ' also sequences for Movietone News and Pathe Pictorial. ST. MARGARET'S FILM STUDIOS, LTD. St. Margaret's, Twickenham. Telephone : Popesgrove 4444. Registered Office : 44, Brook Street, Mayfair, W.i . One stage 120 ft. by 90 ft. Recording: Visatone Silent Track System 8TUJI0 SOUND SERVICE, LTD. * Studio: 89, Wardour Street, W.i. Telephone: Gerrard 6747. Directorate : C. F. T. Heath, J. Aspinal, D. Diamond. Fully equipped studio for film production post synchronising dubbing, sound on disc, or sound on film recording, private viewing theatre (B.T.H.) inter-locking sound heads, cutting rooms, advertising, commercial and general film production work. WARNER BROS. FIRST NATIONAL PRODUCTIONS, LTD. Broom Road, Teddington, Middlesex. Telephone : Kingston 2181-2189. Chairman : D. E. Griffiths. Managing Director : Jerome J. Jackson. Secretary F. V. Royce, F.C.A.. Production Manager ... John Sloan. Studio M anager A. M. Salomon. Scenario Editor H. E. Alexander. Assistant Director Peter Bolton.