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26-year-old Alfred Hitchcock is hailed by the British press as ‘a young man with the vision of a master’ following the release of The Pleasure Garden. [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Empire Marketing Board, one of the first documentary film movements, is founded in London. [MORE] [ADD] |
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A programme of sound-on-film shorts made by the DeForest Phonofilm Company of Great Britain is shown to a paying audience at the Empire Theatre in London. [MORE] [ADD] |
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British films account for only 4½% of films shown in the UK. Top distributors are Famous-Lasky (Paramount), European (Universal), Fox, Gaumont and First National (Warners). [MORE] [ADD] |
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– An Imperial Conference puts forward the idea of an Empire film market to rival Hollywood. The result is the Empire Film Institute. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Gaumont British Picture Corporation employs vertical integration by merging C. M. Woolf’s distribution outfit and Simon Rowson’s production company, Ideal Productions, with investment from the Ostrer brothers. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Cecil Hepworth’s old film studio at Walton-on-Thames is purchased by industrialist Archibald Nettlefold and renamed Nettlefold Studios. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| – The Federation of British Industry forms the Film Producers Group. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| – A City finance group including the Ostrer brothers acquires Biocolour, with 17 screens the country’s fifth largest cinema chain.[MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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– Herbert Wilcox and Nelson Keys form British & Dominion Film Corporation at Elstree. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Gainsborough and Piccadilly Studios are absorbed by Balcon and Blackwell’s Picadilly Pictures.[MORE] [ADD] |
