Money behind the screen : a report prepared on behalf of the Film Council (1937)

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MONEY FU:HISI) THK SOKE EN 49 Unit<>d Artists Krown of produrern ; Critrrion Film Prods., Ltd. Atlantic Film rnxls., Ltd. Trafalgar Film i^rodn.. Ltd. So«kin Film Froda., Ltd Total Cfin<»ral Film Diatribntors, L*d., croup of ('ai»it()l Film Corp., Ltd (,'<Hil Films. Ltd City Film Corp.. Ltd J. G. 4^ U. B. \Vainwrit;ht, Ltd. Total A.B.F.D. group of producf>r8 : — Franco-London Films, Ltd. Tooplitz I'roduotionH, Ltd. Total Other ProduoerH : — T. A. Welch Productions, Ltd. ... John Stafford Productions, Lt<l. ... Hammer Productions, Ltd. London Screen Plays, Ltd. British Artistic Films, Ltd.. Buckingham Film Prod., Ltd. Mondovor Film Prod., Ltd. Tudor Films, Ltd London & Continental Films, Ltd. Garrick Film Co., Ltd. John Clein Pictures, Ltd Argyle British Prod., Ltd. Grosvenor Sound Films, Ltd. Beaumont Film Prod., Ltd. Malcolm British Prod., Ltd. prixluf Total Grand Total £ 17.500 l.IO(^),000 1 .W.OOO irvt.H.V) 12,f>00 25.000 20,000 fj.OOO 200,000 27,000 29,400 17,500 150,000 4.000 20,000 22,500 22,000 27,000 9,500 90,000 20,000 4,600 7:n.250 (4 s^parat* rharj{«*») I,.3fHi,ft50 4^,000 648,400 ^£2,823,300 ALDGATE TRUSTEES, LTD.— Is a private company, registered in July, 1935, with a capital of £1,000, of which £98 is paid up. The Directors are : F. C. Ells, a member of Lloyds, L. H. Wilkins, an incorporated insurance broker (both directors of Glanvill, Enthoven & Co.), S. B. Smith, a chartered accountant. Other groups of importance in the sphere of production advances during 1936 are : Prudential Assurance Co., Ltd., which in October took up debentures for London Film Productions, C. T. Bowring & Co. (Insurance), Ltd., which took up £274,702 debentures also for London Films (October) and Denham Securities, Ltd., which guaranteed £300,000 for New World Pictures, Ltd., and £320,000 for Victor Saville Productions, Ltd., while the Equity & Law Life Assurance Society took up £160,000 debentures and collateral mortgage securities for the Capital Film Corporation, Ltd., secured on certain films and money in the joint account of Capital * It should be not^d, moreover, that in many cases there were prior charges outstanding against the films offered as security.