The Film Producers Guild was a collective of
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), Bil ...
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 Producers Guild
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, ...
Film & TV database. Retrieved October 6, 2011 and had offices and screening facilities on Upper St. Martin's Lane, in London. They owned 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 M ...
in south London.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 docu ...
. Peter Morley got his first job in the industry working as a projectionist at the Guild's screening room and met people like 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 195 ...
, 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. Fla ...
, 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 intere ...
and 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 ...
.
Guild film companies
* 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 ...
See also
* List of film distributors in the United Kingdom
References
External links
Film Producers Guild
Worldcat.org
Film production companies of the United Kingdom
Documentary film organizations
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