Kinematograph year book (1948)

Who's What in the Industry. HI and Cornwall branch C.E.A. Committee ; b. 1870, Bradford, Yorks ; delegate to General Council C.E.A. , for two years ; appointed County magistrate for Cornwall, 1926. Addresses : Office: Picture House, Buckfastleigh, Devon. Private : Dart Bridge Hill, Buckfastleigh. PILGRIM, PERCY, M.B.K.S., General VicePresident, N.A.T.K.E. ; Projection Engineer, Granada Theatres. Entered entertainment industry as assistant electrician ; later became projectionist ; Regal, Marble Arch, 1928 ; Trocadero, Elephant and Castle, 1930 ; later joined Granada Theatres. Address: Granada Theatres, Ltd., 36, Golden Square, W.i. Tel. : Gerrard 3554. PINCOMBE, ARNOLD J., general manager, G.B. Equipments, Ltd ; b. 1903 ; ed. Dulwich College ; joined G.B. Equipments on formation, 1934 ; sales organiser, Education Division, 1936 ; equipment sales manager, 1938 ; appointed general manager, films and equipment, 1940. Address: Imperial House, 80-82, Regent Street, London, W.i. Tel. : POLLARD, JOSEPH, J. P., managing director of kinemas, Notts and Derby ; member of Notts and Derby branch C.E.A. committee ; delegate to General Council ; b. 1882, Bradford ; past-president C.E.A. ; member, Mansfield Town Council and nayor, 1931-2. Addresses : Office, Bentinck Chambers, Market Hall, Mansfield. Tel. : 760. Private : Oak Lea, Atkins Lane, Mansfield. Tel. : 422. POOLE, JOHN REGINALD, chairman, Poole's Theatres, Ltd. ; governing director, Poole's Entertainments, Ltd. ; chairman Poole's Roxy, Edinburgh, Ltd. ; b. 1882 ; eldest and sole surviving son of Charles William, one of the original Poole Bros., of Myriorama fame ; entered the industry in 1898 ; member, Cinema Veterans ; convener of Captains Edinburgh High Constables, 1937 ; president, Edinburgh Rotary Club, 1937 ; entered Council, 1938 ; elected a bailie of Edinburgh Town Council, 1944. Addresses: Office, Synod Hall, Castle Terrace, Edinburgh. Tel.: 21868. Private: Four Ways, Colinton, Edinburgh. Tel. : 87437. POTTER, JOSEPH HORACE, manager, Odeon, Leicester ; chairman Leicester and Leicestershire branch C.E.A., 1947. b. 1889. ed. Leicester. Manager and proprietor ' ' Pack of Cards," 1919-26 ; general manager, Bath Cinema Co., Ltd., 1927-36 ; joined Odeon, 1937. Addresses* Office: Odeon, Queen Street, Leicester. Tel. : 22892. Private : 133 Upperton Road, Leicester. Tel. : 5703. POWELL, MICHAEL, director, Archers Film Prods., Ltd. ; b. 1905. Joined Rex Ingram, Nice, on "Mare Nostrum"; stilis photographer ; assistant director ; wrote and directed "The Edge of the World" ; joined Korda, 1938 ; directed " U-Boat 29"; codirected "Thief of Bagdad," and "The Lion Has Wings," 1939 ; made " Contraband," and "Spy in Black," with Emeric Pressburger, 1940, and " 49th Parallel" ; they formed own company, the Archers Film Prod., Ltd., since made " One of Our Aircraft is Missing," " The Silver Fleet," " The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp," "The Volunteer," "A Canterbury Tale," " I Know Where I'm Going," " Matter of Life and Death," " Black Narcissus." " End of the River," " Red Shoes." Address: Empire House, 117-119, Regent Street, W.i. Tel. : Regent 0621. PRESBURY, S., F.R.Econ.S., F.S.A. ; governing director, S. Presbury and Co., Ltd. ; was chairman first film advertising association, the Screen Advertising Association of G.B. & I. ; vice-chairman Advertising and Industrial Film Association ; member, first CouncL of Advertising Association. Addresses : Office : 19, Charing Cross Road, W.C.2. Tel. : Whitehall 3601. Private: "Belmont," 12, Hillmont Road, Hinchley Wood, Esher, Surrey. PRESSBURGER, ARNOLD, producer, director ; b. 1885 ; entered business 1909, in Austria ; founder, Sascha Film A.G. and Sascha Studios, Vienna ; started Cine-AUianz Film Co., Berlin, 1925; produced "City of Song," at Asfi Studios, Wembley, 1930 and, later G.-B. English versions of " Tell me To-night," "Unfinished Symphony," "My Heart is Calling," etc.: founded British Cine Alliance in 1934; produced "Return of The Scarlet Pimpernel," London Film Productions ; founded CIPRA Paris, 1937 ; produced French version ' ' Prison Without Bars ' ' ; went to Hollywood, 1940 ; formed Arnold Productions; made "Shanghai Gesture," "Hangmen also Die," "It Happened Tomorrow," "Scandal in Paris," and "Then and Now " (Two Cities). PRESSBURGER, EMERIC, director, Archers Film Prods., Ltd. ; b. 1902, Hungary ; ed. Prague and Stuttgart Universities ; formerly journalist; writer; original "One Rainy Afternoon," 1936; screenplay "The Challenge," 1937; "The Spy in Black," 1938; " Contraband," 1939 ; joined Korda ; original screenplay" 49th Parallel," 1940 ; adaptation " Atlantic Ferry " ; original screen plays "One of Our Aircraft is Missing," "Squadron Leader X," 1941 ; formed Archers Film Prods, with Michael Powell, 1942 ; made "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp," "The Silver Fleet," "The Volunteer," "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." Address: Empire House, 11 7-1 19, Regent Street, W.i. Tel.: Regent 0621. PRIDE, HERBERT CHARLES, M B E., F.R.S.A. M.I.E.S., governing director of F. H. Pride, Ltd., specialists in kinema lighting equipmentJoined firm founded by his father in 1897 ; invented many patents connected with lighting fitments, chairman, Decorative and Commercial Section, E.L.F.A., 1947. Address: 69-81, High Street, Clapham, S.W.4. Tel. : Macaulay 2281. PRIEST, L. F., director and general manager, Lothians Star Theatres, Ltd. ; member Scottish branch C.E.A. committee ; b. 1902 ; entered trade, 1929. Address : Regal, Bathgate, W. Lothian. Tei. : 315-6. PRINCE, MAURICE, governing director, Regal (Barnstaple), Ltd., Bideford Entertainments, Ltd., Palace Theatre (Bideford), Ltd. ; b. 1899. London ; ed. City of London School and London University ; entered industry, 1922, with Ideal Films, Ltd. ; vice-chairman, Devon and Cornwall branch, C.E.A., 1941 ; delegate to General Council, 1936-39, 1942 ; member,