Kinematograph year book (1944)
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Trade Organisations.
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South-Easx : J. Stubberfield, " Cornerways, " Grange Court Drive, Bexhill.
South-West : A. J. Stephens, 14, Broyle Road, Chichester, Sussex.
In addition to the above Divisional Officers there are over 150 Branch Secretaries.
Affiliated to the British Trade Union Congress. Scottish Trade Lnion Congress, National Federation of Professional Workers, Labour Research Department, London Trades Council, and Provincial Trades Councils.
The only Union engaged exclusively in organisation of workers in the Entertainment Industry, and the only Union nationally recognised by the Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association of Great Britain and Ireland and the Theatre Proprietors' Associations as the Trade Union for the purposes of negotiating wages and conditions for all Cinema and Theatre employees.
Over 175 Branches throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland of members engaged in Film Studios, Theatres, Music Halls, and Cinemas.
CINEMA MANAGERS' ASSOCIATION.
(Incorporated in the National Association of
Theatrical and Kine Employees). Russell House, 71, South End Road, Hampstead, London, N.W.3. Telephone : Hampstead 7671/7672. President :
A. High am-C owen, Manager, Ritz, Muswell Hill.
Vice-President : Robert H. George, Manager, Plaza, Bridgeton. National Secretary : W. L. Pember. Objects :
1. To provide an organisation for cinema managers, relief managers and assistant managers designed to elevate their status and improve their economic conditions as a body of professional workers
2. To promote and protect the interests of its members ; regulate the relations between members and their employers, and between members and other members ; provide legal and other assistance for members considered by the Association to have been subjected to unfair treatment or wrongful dismissal ; and to promote or combine with other organised bodies in promoting such legislation as may from time to time be deemed necessary to advance the interests of members and protect the interests of the profession generally.
NEWSREEL ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, LTD.
Offices : 20th Century House, 31-32, Soho Square, W.i. Telephone : Gerrard 3177 and 7766.
Council and Representatives : — British Movietonews, Ltd, Sir Gordon Craig. GaumontBritish Distributors, Ltd., L. Castleton Knight. Paramount Film Service, Ltd., G.T. Cummins. Pathe Pictures, Ltd., F. Watts. Universal Pictures, Ltd., S. F. Ditcham. Secretary : Ernest Long Maddox.
Objects : To promote and protect the interests, welfare and business of associates engaged in the production and distribution of cinematograph films depicting current events, kDown as Newsreels, and to bring about and maintain co-operation between them.
SOCIETY OF CINEMATURIANS.
President :
T. S. Dawson (Vice-Chairman, Manchester and Salford Branch, C.E.A.). Vice-President : W. J. Gell, C.B.E. Chairman :
W. J. Speakman (President, C.E.A., 1942-3). Hon Treasurer : A. Bennett, Regal Cinema, Manchester.
Hon. Secretary ; S. W. Pink, 20th Century-Fox Film Co., Ltd., Manchester. Hon. Auditor: Harry Moorhouse, A.C.A., Imperial Buildings, Oxford Road, Manchester. Hon. Solicitor : Norman Hart, B.A., 21, Panton Street, London, W.i. Council :
H. Abbott, Regent Cinema, Fallowneld. W. Gordon Smith, 20th Century-Fox Film Co.,
Ltd., Manchester. J. Gomersall, L.R.I.B.A., Architect and
Cinema Director. S. Bedford, General Film Distributors, Ltd.
Manchester.
T. E. Robinson, F.C.I.S. (Secretary, Manchester and Salford C.E.A.), Regal Cinema, Manchester.
H. Brooks, General Film Distributors Manchester.
J. Brearley (Chairman, L.C.O.B.), Brearley Film Booking Agency.
W. Hockman, Gaumont Theatre, Manchester.
F. A. W. Stanbury, Warner Bros. Pictures, Ltd., Manchester.
L. B. Fancourt, Odeon Theatre, Manchester.
W. Chilton, J. Frank Brockliss, Ltd., Manchester.
Objects :
The promotion of goodwill amongst the Members, and the cultural advancement of the Trade. The Society aims to provide opportunities for its members to meet for social and topical discussion on matters of mutual interest.
The Society shall be non-political, nonsectarian.
INSTITUTE OF AMATEUR CINEMATOGRAPHERS, LTD.
Offices :
50, High Street, Epsom, Surrey. Telephone : Epsom 2092. Secretary : Leslie M. Froude, A.C.A. Objects :
To promote the general advance of Amateur Cinematography, moving pictures, sound on film, sound records and their applications, and secure for such amateurs a recognised amateur status and to raise the standard of cinematic art generally.
The Institute, in pursuing the attainment of its general objects, encourages research in cinematography, sound on film, sound recordf, makes investigations from time to time into particular conditions or problems affecting the amateur, and provides general and special information for the use of its Fellows, Members, Affiliated Societies and Associates.
The Institute is the representative body for Great Britain in the Union Internationale du Cinema d'Amateur.
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