Kinematograph year book (1948)

60 The Kinematograph Year Book. manager for Goldwyn Pictures, Ltd., 1919 ; 1924. Controller of Film Booking Offices, Ltd., distributing Columbia Product, B.T.H. talking equipment and The Topical Budget. After ten years as assistant director of Theatres, G.-B., appointed booking manager in 1943. Addresses : Office : New Gallery House, Regent Street, W.i. Tel. : Gerrard 8080. Private : " Bennington," Drayton Gardens, N.21. Tel.: Laburnum 5008. BROWN, FREDERIC JOHN, scriptwriter; independent ; b. 1918, London, author, short stories, essays, and poems ; scripts include, "Breathing Space," "When London Burned," " Combined Cadets," " The Ringing Island," "The Parish Church." Address: Old Mill Cottage, Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire. BROWN, J. LANGHAM, chairman and managing director, Langham Cinemas, Ltd. ; trustee, Notts and Derby Branch C.E.A. ; member of committee and N.A.T.K.E., Conciliation Board ; b. 1878, Wickham Brook, Suffolk. London representative Albany Ward Circuit, Award Film Service, Kinematograph Trading Co. (Cardiff), Ltd., Allied Film Service, Selig Polyscope, Ruffell's Bioscope and Bolton's Mutual Films, 1912-16 ; director, St. George's Cinema Co., Ltd., 1918-26 ; manager, Saltney Cinema;, Ltd. Notts, and Derby General Council delegate, 1930-33 ; branch chairman, 1935 and 1945. Address : Empire, Long Eaton, near Nottingham. Tel. : 209. BROWN, J. WALTON, director and general sales manager, Warner Bros. Pictures, Ltd., for past 14 years ; b. April 11, 1891, Jarrow-on-Tyne ; entered trade as branch manager, Phillips Films, 1919 ; branch manager Goldwyn, Ltd., Newcastle, 1920; Glasgow branch 1921 ; appointed branch supervisor 1923 ; general sales manager, Film Booking Offices, 1924-32 ; joined Warner Bros., 1933. Addresses : Office: Warner House, Wardour Street, W.i, Tel.: Gerrard 5600; Private: " Braeside," Lammas Lane, Esher, Tel. : Esher 11 54. BRUNEL, ADRIAN, F.R.G.S., F.R.P.S., director, playwright, screen writer and author of works on filmcraft and production ; joined British Actors' Film Company 1919 as scenario-editor ; 1920, with Leslie Howard, directed A. A. Milne comedies for Minerva Films. In 1922 directed "The Man Without Desire " ; later joined Gainsborough directing "Blighty," "The Constant Nymph," "A Light Woman," "The Vortex" and "The Crooked Billet ; later made ' ' A Taxi to Paradise," " I'm an Explosive," " Badger's Green," "Variety," "City of Beautiful Nonsense," "Menace," "Important People," "Little Napoleon," "The Rebel Son," "While Parents Sleep," "The Girl Who Forgot " ; co-directed " The Lion Has Wings"; production consultant to Leslie Howard on "First of the Few" and "Gentle Sex." Address : First House, Bulstrode Way, Gerrards Cross, Tel. : Gerrards Cross 2885. BUCHANAN, ANDREW, managing director, Films of Great Britain, Ltd. ; director of Scriptural Productions. Originator of Cinemagazine, 1926-37; author of "The Way of the Cinema," "Art of Film Production," " Film-Making from Script to Screen," " Peace Through Film," " Film and the Future," "Going to the Cinema." Ad dress : Park Studio, Putney Park Lane, S.W.15. Tel. : Putney 6274 and 4052. BUS LASS, A., managing director, The Bensham P.H. (1923), Ltd. ; member Northern Branch C.E.A. Committee ; b. 1885, Gateshead ; entered trade 1923 ; built Gloria Cinema, St. Anthony's, Newcastle, 1937. Addresses: Office: Bensham P.H., Bensham Road, Gateshead, Tel. : 72441 ; Private : Shipley Villa, Prince Consort Road, Gateshead, Tel. : 71401. BURDON, TOM, publicity director, Gainsborough Pictures ; b. 1910, Sunderland ; entered business from Fleet Street : publicity manager to Herbert Wilcox, 1936-9 ; joined Gainsborough, 1944. Addresses: Office: Gainsborough Pictures, Lime Grove, Shepherd's Bush, W.12, Tel. : Shepherd's Bush 1210 ; Private : 19-20, Ship Cottages, Strand-on-the-Green, London, W.4, Tel. : Chiswick 6276. BURGESS, GEORGE E., director of sound, Riverside Studios ; Twickenham Studios, Southall Studios ; b. 1897, London ; ed. Dulwich College and London University ; entered industry with Elwell Phonofilms, 1928 ; B.T.P., Wembley ; installed first sound system in Pathe Natan, Paris Studios ; chief recording eng. for Assoc. Sound Film Industries, Wembley, 1929-33 ; ATP, Studios, 1934 ; Cines Studios, Rome. 1935 ; Riverside Studios, 1936 ; Gainsborough Studios, 1937 ; technical director, Studios Sonart, Brussels, 1938-40. Addresses : Office : Alliance Film Studios, Ltd., Crisp Road, Hammersmith, Tel. : Riverside 3012. Private : 72, Notting Hill Gate, W.i 1. Tel. : Bayswater 5654. BURTON, BASIL, director, Academy Control, Ltd. ; Academy Cinema, Ltd. ; Film Traders, Ltd. ; b. 1906, Hertfordshire. Address : 167, Oxford Street, W.i. Tel. : Gerrard 9425. BUSBY, GEORGE R., assistant producer, chief production manager for the Archers Film Productions, Ltd. ; b. 1900, ed. Lyce de Nice, Fr?nce ; joined Rex Ingram, Nice, 1928 ; assistant director and production manager, with French, German, Russian, American and British companies since 1928 ; recent films: "A Canterbury Tale," "I Know Where I'm Going," "A Matter of Life and Death," "Black Narcissus," "The End of the River," "The Red Shoes." Addresses : Office : Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Bucks. Tel. Iver 700. Private : 16, Elm Grove Road, Ealing Common, London, W.5. Tel. : Ealing 5563. BUTCH ART, SAMUEL, F.S.C., National secretary, Society of Cinema Managers ; Solicitor ; b. 1917 ; entered industry as managerorganist, Kinnaird Picture House, Dundee, 1942 ; appointed Convener and National Delegate for Dundee and district branch of Managers' Separate Section in February, 1946 ; appointed National Secretary, Managers' Separate Section in May, 1946 ; played part in negotiations with C.E.A. for first Managers' Charter ; appointed National Secretary of the Society, 1947. Addresses : Office : 164, Shaftesbury Avenue, W.C.2. Tel.: Temple Bar 7864. Private: 2/162, Randolph Avenue, Maida Vale, W.9. Tel. Cunningham 8953.