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Film Producers Guild
The Film Producers Guild was a collective of documentary film companies in England. Peter Morley"Peter Morley - A Life Rewound" Part 1 (PDF) British Academy of Film and Television Arts (2006), pp. 41-42. Retrieved September 29, 2011 It was formed in August 1944 Film & TV database. Retrieved October 6, 2011 and had offices and screening facilities on Upper St. Martin's Lane, in London. They owned in south London. Guild producers, directors, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Documentary Film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in terms of "a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception [that remains] a practice without clear boundaries". Early documentary films, originally called "actuality films", lasted one minute or less. Over time, documentaries have evolved to become longer in length, and to include more categories. Some examples are Educational film, educational, observational and docufiction. Documentaries are very Informational listening, informative, and are often used within schools as a resource to teach various principles. Documentary filmmakers have a responsibility to be truthful to their vision of the world without intentionally misrepresenting a topic. Social media platfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Morley (filmmaker)
Peter Morley, OBE (26 June 1924 – 23 June 2016) was a German-born British television producer and documentary filmmaker. As a nine-year-old child, he fled Nazi Germany with his elder siblings and moved to England, where he lived until his death. He made several documentaries about the Holocaust, winning several awards, both in Britain and abroad. Early years Born Peter Meyer to Jewish parents, Alice and Willy Meyer, a wholesaler and exporter in Germany, he fled the Nazis in 1933 at the age of nine with his brother Tommy and his sister (future ''Registrar'' of the Warburg Institute and literary executor of Arnaldo Momigliano). His parents had already decided the family should leave Germany, but when Adolf Hitler was made chancellor of Germany, plans were put into action. His parents learned that the Landschulheim Herrlingen, a progressive, co-educational school in Ulm was moving to England and he and his siblings were accepted. Arriving in England, he and his siblings attend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Film Institute
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom. The BFI uses funds provided by the National Lottery to encourage film production, distribution, and education. It is sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and partially funded under the British Film Institute Act 1949. Purpose It was established in 1933 to encourage the development of the arts of film, television and the moving image throughout the United Kingdom, to promote their use as a record of contemporary life and manners, to promote education about film, television and the moving image generally, and their impact on society, to promote access to and appreciation of the widest possible range of British and world cinema and to establish, care for and develop collections reflecting the moving image history and heritage of the United Kingdom. BFI activities Archive The BFI maint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merton Park Studios
Merton Park Studios, opened in 1929, was a British film production studio located at Long Lodge, 269 Kingston Road in Merton Park, South London. In the 1940s, it was owned by Piprodia Entertainment, Nikhanj Films and Film Producers Guild. Peter Morley"Peter Morley - A Life Rewound" Part 1 (PDF) British Academy of Film and Television Arts (2006), p. 41. Retrieved September 29, 2011 Many second features were produced at Merton Park, and for a time it was the base of Radio Luxembourg. Unlike many other studios, it remained open during World War II, producing films for the Ministry of Information. In the late 1940s, the studios produced several children's films.Steve Chibnall & Brian McFarlane, ''The British 'B' Film'', Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2009, pp. 96–101. In 1950, Anglo-Amalgamated began making films at Merton Park. From 1957 to 1959, they produced an average of one second-feature a month there. They produced the crime series ''Scotland Yard'' (1953 to 1961, 39 half-h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Documentary Film Movement
The Documentary Film Movement is the group of British filmmakers, led by John Grierson, who were influential in British film culture in the 1930s and 1940s. Principles The founding principles of the movement were based on Grierson's views of documentary film. He wished to use film to educate citizens in an understanding of democratic society. History The movement began at the Film Unit of the Empire Marketing Board in 1930. The unit was headed by John Grierson, who appointed apprentices such as Basil Wright, Arthur Elton, Edgar Anstey, Stuart Legg, Paul Rotha and Harry Watt. These filmmakers were mostly young, middle-class, educated males with liberal political views. In 1933, the film unit was transferred to the General Post Office. From 1936, the movement began to disperse and divisions emerged. Whereas previously the documentary film movement had been located in a single public sector organisation, it separated in the late 1930s into different branches, as filmmakers explo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humphrey Jennings
Frank Humphrey Sinkler Jennings (19 August 1907 – 24 September 1950) was an English documentary filmmaker and one of the founders of the Mass Observation organisation. Jennings was described by film critic and director Lindsay Anderson in 1954 as "the only real poet that British cinema has yet produced". Early life and career Born in Walberswick, Suffolk, Jennings was the son of Guild Socialists, an architect father and a painter mother. He was educated at the Perse School and later read English at Pembroke College, Cambridge. When not studying, he painted and created advanced stage designs and was the founder-editor of ''Experiment'' in collaboration with William Empson and Jacob Bronowski. After graduating with a starred First Class degree in English, Jennings undertook post-graduate research on the poet Thomas Gray, under the supervision of a predominantly absent I. A. Richards, who was teaching abroad. After abandoning what looked like being a successful academic career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Grierson
John Grierson (26 April 1898 – 19 February 1972) was a pioneering Scottish documentary maker, often considered the father of British and Canadian documentary film. In 1926, Grierson coined the term "documentary" in a review of Robert J. Flaherty's '' Moana''.Ann Curthoys, Marilyn Lakebr>Connected worlds: history in transnational perspective, Volume 2004p.151. Australian National University Press Early life Grierson was born in the old schoolhouse in Deanston, near Doune, Scotland, to schoolmaster Robert Morrison Grierson from Boddam, near Peterhead, and Jane Anthony, a teacher from Ayrshire. His mother, a suffragette and ardent Labour Party activist, often took the chair at Tom Johnston's election meetings. The family moved to Cambusbarron, Stirling, in 1900, when the children were still young, after Grierson's father was appointed headmaster of Cambusbarron school. When the family moved, John had three elder sisters, Agnes, Janet, and Margaret, and a younger brother, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Craigie
Jill Craigie (born Noreen Jean Craigie; 7 March 1911 – 13 December 1999) was a British documentary filmmaker, screenwriter and feminist. She was one of Britain's earliest female documentary makers. Her early films demonstrate Craigie's interest in socialist and feminist politics, but her career as a film-maker has been "somewhat eclipsed" by her marriage to the Labour Party leader Michael Foot (1913–2010), whom she met during the making of her film ''The Way We Live'' (1946). Early life Born Noreen Jean Craigie to a Russian mother and a Scottish father in Fulham, London, Craigie began her career in film as an actress. Career Craigie's engagement in feminist issues came from reading Sylvia Pankhurst's ''The Suffragette Movement'' in the early 1940s. After this she attended a gathering of former suffragettes to lay flowers on the statue of Emmeline Pankhurst. She was struck by suffragettes' story and began interviewing them and starting to lay the groundwork for a documenta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Rotha
Paul Rotha (3 June 1907 – 7 March 1984) was a British documentary film-maker, film historian and critic. Early life and education He was born Paul Thompson in London, and educated at Highgate School and at the Slade School of Fine Art. Career Rotha was a close collaborator of John Grierson, and Wolfgang Suschitzky was one of his cinematographers. He directed and produced dozens of documentaries including ''Contact'' (1933), ''Air Outpost'' (1937) ''The Face of Britain'' (1935),'' World of Plenty'' (1943), ''Land of Promise'' (1947), ''A City Speaks'' (1947) and many others. '' The World Is Rich'' (1947) and '' Cradle of Genius'' (1961), both of which were nominated for an Academy Award, and feature films including the BAFTA-nominated ''No Resting Place''. Rotha was Head of BBC TV's Documentaries Department between May 1953 and May 1955. Rotha shared with Otto Neurath an interest in the techniques of visual communication, and the two men worked together on several films, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verity Films
Verity Films was a British documentary film production company, founded by Sydney Box and Jay Gardner Lewis in March or May 1940. Background The company's initial purpose was to make short propaganda films for the wartime government.Spicer, 18. Lewis directed Verity's first five films, but fell out with Box over finances and left the company.Spicer, 20–21. Box's former employer Publicity Films helped pay off the £2,000 debt and the company was refloated in 1941.Spicer, 21. With Lewis gone, Box ran the company alone and found quick success. Turnover during 1942 was £75,000, and after paying salaries of £5,000 to Box and others, Verity still made a £2,000 profit. A January 1943 report in ''Kinematograph Weekly'' called Verity "by far the largest documentary film organisation in Great Britain". By 1944, Verity had absorbed several other documentary producers and had eight to ten production units in the field. It advertised itself in a trade publication as "the largest shor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenpark Productions
Greenpark Productions Ltd is a British documentary film production company, founded by Walter Greenwood in Polperro, Cornwall in 1938. The company relocated to London in 1939. After the war it expanded into making upmarket corporate films. Amongst its roster of directors were Ken Annakin, Ralph Keene and Humphrey Swingler, brother of the poet Randall Swingler. Greenpark Productions was a founding member of the Film Producers Guild, which set new standards for UK documentary film production. The company, together with its film archive, was acquired in 1977 by David Morphet, an award-winning documentary film producer. Greenpark Productions Ltd is still in business as a film archive, based in Cornwall. (www.greenparkimages.co.uk) Filmography This filmography below is a list of films produced or co-produced by Greenpark Productions.Adapted from Chris Hopkins, ''Walter Greenwood's Love on the Dole: Novel, Play, Film'', Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2018, p. 285-6 Notes Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Film Distributors By Country
This is a list of motion picture distributors, past and present, sorted alphabetically by country. Albania * Constantin Film * United International Pictures Argentina * Star Distribution * Warner Bros. * Sony Pictures * Fox Distribution Company * United International Pictures * Argentina Sono Film * Artistas Unidos * Cinema International Corporation * Columbia Pictures of Argentina * Lumiton * Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) * Paramount Pictures * RKO Radio Pictures de Argentina * Universal Films Argentina * Warner- Columbia Films Australia * 20th Century Fox/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer * Antidote Films * Film Australia * Hoyts Distribution/Sony Pictures Releasing * Leap Frog Films * Lionsgate Australia * Madman Entertainment * Palace Films and Cinemas * Paramount Pictures/Universal Pictures * Titan View * Transmission Films * Roadshow Films * Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Brazil * Star Distribution * Warner Bros. * Sony * Fox Distribution Company * Columbia Pictures * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
