Greenpark Productions Ltd is a British

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 ...

production company, founded by

Walter Greenwood Walter Greenwood (17 December 1903 – 13 September 1974) was an English novelist, best known for the socially influential novel ''Love on the Dole'' (1933). Early life Greenwood was born at 56 Ellor Street, his father's house and hairdres ...

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 Randall Carline Swingler MM (28 May 1909 – 19 June 1967) was an English poet, writing extensively in the 1930s in the communist interest. Early life and education His was a prosperous upper middle class Anglican family in Aldershot, with an ...

. Greenpark Productions was a founding member of the

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 fo ...

, which set new standards for UK

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

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