Kinematograph year book (1948)

88 The Kinema tograph Year Book, Films Council, South West. Addresses : Office, Regal Cinema Offices. Theatre Lane, Barnstaple. Tel : 2002. Private : '65, Park Avenue, Oakland Park, Barnstaple. Tel. : 3148. PRIOR, FRED A., F.S.A.A., director, United Entertainments, Ltd., and associated companies ; Parade Cinema (Skegness), Ltd., and subsidiary companies ; The Midland Palais de Danse, Ltd., Albion Greyhounds, Ltd., and subsidiary companies ; BarnettHutton, Ltd., A. S. Toone & Sons, Ltd. Chairman of local board General Accident Fire & Life Assurance Corporation, Ltd. ; b. 1888 ; incorporated accountant ; partner, Prior & Palmer ; secretary of the Notts & Derby branch of the C.E.A., 1918-44 ; chairman, 1944-45 ; president, C.E.A., 1946-7. Addresses: Office, General Buildings, Bridlesmith Gate, Nottingham. Tel. : 44584-6. Private: " Ralmar," Melton Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham. Tel. : 31584. PRIOR, RALPH F., A.C.A., A.S.A.A., secretary, Notts & Derby branch C.E.A. ; b. 1914, Nottingham ; ed. Rossall School ; partner, Prior & Palmer, Incorporated Accountants. Addresses: Office : General Buildings, Bridlesmith Gate, Nottingham. Tel. : 44584. Private : 76, Priory Road, West Bridgford. Nottingham. Tel. : 84663. PRODGERS, W., supervisor, Devon and Cornwall Area, A. B.C. ; member Devon and Cornwall branch C.E.A. committee delegate to General Council ; b. 1899, Manchester ; joined Charles D. Allen, in the Jackson-Allen Cinemas, Ltd., and Midland Counties Circuit, Ltd., 1918 ; A. B.C., 1929 ; appointed Area Supervisor in covering Lines., Yorks., Durham and Northumberland, 1935 ; Devon and Cornwall Area, 1945 ; past-chairman, Leeds Branch C.E.A. Addresses: Office : Regal, Torquay. Tel.: 2173. Private: " Edgcote," Old Torwood Road, Torquay. Tel.: 4455 PROUD PETER, associate producer and production designer, Wessex Film Prods. ; b. 1913, Glasgow ; joined B.I. P., 1928 ; G.-B., 1932 ; art director, Warner, Teddington, 1915-19 5 Independent Producers, Ltd., 1945. Addresses: Office : Pinewood Studios, Pinewood, Bucks. Tel. : Tver 700. Private : Dick Turpin's Cottage, Parkspring, Iver Heath. Tel. : Fulmer 39. PROVIS, GEORGE, supervising art director, Gainsborough Pictures (1928), Ltd. ; entered trade, Stoll Studios, 1924. Address: Lime Grove Studios, Shepherd's Bush, W.12. Tel.: Shepherd's Bush 12 10. PULMAN, ROBERT R. E., F.B.K.S., S.M.P.E., M.I.E.S., projection engineer, G.-B. Picture Corp., Ltd. ; b. 1910, Ealing ; joined P.C.T., 1926. Addresses : Office : Holborn Empire Offices, High Holborn, W.C. Tel. : Holborn 5526. Private : 12A Brunswick Road, Sutton. Tel. : Vigilant 5667. PURCELL, HAROLD, M.A., Oxon, dramatic consultant, Film Producers' Guild ; b. 1907 ; journalist, scenario-writer and playwright ; author, " Lisbon Story," " The Rest is Silence"; part author "Full Swing," "Something in the Air," "Jenny Jones," " Under the Counter," "Here Come The Boys," "The Shephard Show." Address: Guild House, Upper St. Martin's Lane, W.C.2. Tel. : Temple Bar 5420. PUSEY, FRED L., production designer, Independent Producers, Ltd. ; b. 1909, London ; art director, British and Dominion Film Corporation, 1930-33 ; London Film Productions. I934"38 ; Irving Ascher Productions, 1939, Production Facilities (Films), Ltd., 1945-6. Addresses: Office: Pinewood Studios. Tel.: 700. Private: " Allerds House," Crown Lane, Farnham Royal, Bucks. Tel. : Farnham Common 307. QUINTON, HARRY, proprietor, Palace anil Broadway, Bexley Heath, Kent ; secretary, Kent Branch C.E.A., since 1934 ; b. 1879, Darenth ; chairman, Kent Branch, 1931. Addresses : Office : Palace, Bexley Heath, Kent. Tel. : 1999. Private : Haslemere, Warren Road, Bexley Heath. RADLEY, CHRISTOPHER A., F.R.G.S., manag ing director, Selwyn Film Services, Ltd. ; ed. Royal College of Science and University College, London. Joined Visual Education, Ltd., 1927, as film editor ; subsequently became manager ; founded Selwyn Film Sendees, 1938. Member of Geographical Films Panel, B.F.I. Address: 19, Lexham Mews, W.8. Tel. : Western 4969. RAFER, DAVID, managing director, Middlesex Cinemas, Ltd. ; member, L. & H.C. Branch C.E.A. Committee; Addresses: Office: 65a, Hoxton Street, London, N.i. Tel. : Clerkenwell 7450. Private: "Northway," Greenbank Crescent, Finchley, N.W.4. Tel. : Finchley 5832. RAINBOW, FRANK E. T., general manager, Eagle-Lion-Film, Germany; b. 1913, ed. Shooters Hill. Independent exhibitor 1937 ; control officer, Civil Defence, 1939-41 ; H.M. Forces 1941-5 ; film officer, Berlin, 1945-6 ; head film section, Control Commission for Germany, 1946-7 ; appointed present post, 1947. Addresses: Office : 67, Rothenbaum Chaussee, Hamburg, 13, Germany. Tel.: Hamburg 443318. Private: 22, St. Benedict Strasse, Hamburg, B.A.O.R. 3. Tel. : Hamburg 552887. RANK, J. ARTHUR., D.L., J.P., director, Eagle Star Insurance Company, Ltd. ; Joseph Rank, Ltd. ; Odeon Holdings (N.Z.), Ltd. ; chairman, Denham and Pinewood Holdings, Ltd. ; Gaumont-British Picture Corporation, Ltd. ; General Cinema Finance Corporation, Ltd. ; J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Ltd. ; Manorfield Investments Ltd. ; Odeon Theatres, Ltd. ; b. 1889. Addresses: " Heathfield," Reigate Heath, Surrey and Sutton Manor, Sutton Scotney, Hampshire. RAWNSLEY, DAVID, director of Film Research, Production Facilities (Films), Ltd. ; b. 1909, Sevenoaks, Kent. Formerly director, Public Relations Films, Ltd., Common Ground, Ltd. ; production designer and art director of over 200 productions, including " In Which We Serve," "The Way Ahead," "49th Parallel" and "I See a Dark Stranger." Addresses : Office : 5, Upper Berkeley Street, W.i. Tel. : Paddington 0741. Private : 3, Selwood Terrace, S.W.7. Tel. : Kensington 4770.