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

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MoNKY ni:mM» Tin: screen 67 Ellonnaii Tiincs, Ltd., fho main Hhip|)irij,' company among thi^ concerns controlled by yontldul Sir .John Mllcrnum, licir to the £3G,(KSr),(KK) estate left liy his father a lew years n^'o. Hoth Sir Miles Mattinson and W. (Jraham arc also directors of" wveral otlier Ellerman companies, while in addition the latter is chairman ot" Bisichi Tin Co (Nigeria), Ltd., and llhistratcd Ix)ndon News & Sketch, Ltd., Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Publishing Co., Lt<l., etc., and director of Associated Tin Mines of Nigeria, Lt<I., River Plat(^ lOicctricity Co., Ltd., et(\ Lord Greenwood combines his Law Dcbentun* Corporation directorship with other directorsiii})s in heavy industry (Dorman, Long & Co., etc.), food (Aerate<l Bread Co.), tailoring (Montague Burton), insuraiu^e (I^ha-nix Assurance), coal (Cpton Colliery) and electricity (Soc. Internat. d'Encrgio Hydro P^lectricjue). Its other directors arc Bernard Campion, K.C., Sir Erancis Eladgatc, M.V.O.^ (Phoenix Assurance and four electricity comj)anies in London), R. L. Hunter (Meux Brewery and Guardian Assurance) and J. IL (■. Johnston (Cordoba Central Railway Co. and numerous investment companies). Next perhaps in importance is the National Provincial Bank, Ltd., with its overdraft facilities for Gaumont-British Picture Corporation, Ltd., converted into £1,340,0(X) debentures, an overdraft of £163,403 to A.T.P., and as the parent institution of the bankers nominee company (Branch Nominees, Ltd.) having perhaps the largest share and mortgage, etc., holdings in the industry (Associated British Picture Corporation, Ltd., Associated British Film Distributors, Ltd., Union, County, Odeon, etc.). Although the control of investments registered in the name of nominee companies is stated to rest entirely with the clients for whom they are made and not with the parent bank, it is nevertheless interesting that the nominee company most prominently involved in the film trade is associated with that among the great commercial banks which appears to have granted by far the largest credits in its own name to the industry. The directors of the National Provincial bank are : — Chairman : C. F. Campbell. Deputy : fF. A. Johnston. Chairmen \ Sir A. E. Lewi.s. Lord Burghley, M.P. Sir Hareourt Butler. Colin Cooper. Dircetors J. C. D. Denison-Pender, C. O. Hamilton. C. F. Hotblack. Lord Illingworth. ^_Sir John B. Lloyd. (Sir Austin Low. Ronald Malrolm. iSir Percival L. D. Perry. Hon. Jasper N. Ridley. Lord Riverdale. John Robarts. Sir Samuel Roberts, Bt. I E. A. Smith. [Capt. E. C. E. Smith. Third in the list of film creditors is the Equity & Law Life Assurance Societ}^ w hose interests cover all three spheres of the