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

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52 MONEY BEHIND THE SOEBBN NORWICH UNION LITE INS. SOC, LTD. : Exhibition: Majestic Theatre Corp 90,000 ATLAS ASSURANCE CO., LTD.: Exhibition : Associated British Picture Coi-poration subsidiaries 75,000 Other companies engaged in cinema loans inchide : Halifax Building Soc. (Twentieth Cent. Cinem. & Paramount Picture Theatres) 69,000 (and further advances) Cinema Reahsations (Liverpool), Ltd. (Associated British Picture Corporation Group) 47;500 Brocklyn Trust (Manchester) (Odeon) 35,650 Westminster Perm. Bldg. Soc. (Odeon) 18,450 Leightons (Contractors), Ltd. (Odeon) ... 20% of build, contr. price. Gleniffer Properties (County) ' 24,000 Entertainments & Gen. Inv. Co. (County) 4,000 Individual creditors range from 0. Daniels, of Hyde, who advanced £500 to Northern Amusements, Ltd., to S. W. Gibbons, Nottingham, who advanced £80,000 to the Ritz (Nottingham), Ltd. (County group), and include : — J. Rothstein, London (Ass. Cinem. Props.) 31,000 R. Shapiro & G. A. Saunders, London (Gaum. Super C^.) ... 11,500 L. D. Woolfe, London (Odeon) 5,000 J. Mihier, London (Odeon) 11,000 Mrs. R. King, Nottingham (Adelphi Entertainments) 6,000 A. E. Thompson, Farnham, and others (Ass. Cin. Prop.) ... 5,000 Maj. T. G. F. Paget and J. W. Paget (West CUff Gard. Theatre) Clacton 4,000 In a certain number of cases, mortgages and similar loans are apparently taken up by various banks in their own names. In the majority of instances the amount involved is not disclosed, but the banks in question and their debtors are as follows : — Lloyds Bank : Worthing Hall & Winter Garden £70,000. Chfton Cmema (Leominster), Ltd., £10,000. Clifton Picture House (York), Ltd., " all money due ", etc Seaford Empire, Co., Ltd., " all money due ", etc. Wm. Deacons Bank : Kenyons Playhouses, Ltd., £50,000. Barclays Bank : Hinge's Cinemas, Ltd., £20,000. Majestic (Sevenoaks), Ltd., *' all money due *', etc. Princess Cinema (Bagshot) Ltd., " all money due ", etc. Pinewood Studios, " all money due ", etc. Milheath Studios, " aU money due ", etc. Union Bank (Manchester) Odeon (Guide Bridge), Ltd., £12,000. Midland Bank : Twentieth Century Cinemas, " all money due ", etc. Fox British Pictures (Studio), •' all money due ", etc. Inc. Assoc, of Kinematograph Manufacturers, " all money due ", etc. Clydesdale Bank : Grafton Films, Ltd., £10,000.