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The History of British Cinema: 1931 |
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The British Kinematograph Society (BKS) is formed out of the London section of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (SMPE) to provide members with a source of information regarding technological developments in the industry. [ADD] | |||
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John Logie Baird broadcasts a television test programme featuring a Charlie Chaplin/Keystone Kops film. [ADD] | |||
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Alan D. Blumlein of EMI files a provisional patent application (No 395,325) for stereophonic sound recording and reproduction on disc and film. [ADD] | |||
| – The High Court rules that under the Sunday Observance Act 1780 it is illegal for local authorities in England and Wales to grant licences for cinemas to open on a Sunday. [ADD] | ||||
| – The Associated Radio Pictures Company builds what is claimed to be the UK’s first purpose-built sound film studio at Ealing. The studio has seven stages installed with RCA sound equipment. [ADD] | ||||
| – Warner Brothers and First National lease Teddington Studios (prior to buying) and spends £100,000 modernising and extending it. [ADD] | ||||
| – Sound Services converts industrial premises at Kingston Road in Merton into a film studio. [ADD] | ||||
| – Southall Film Studios is renamed Kingsway General Films Ltd. [ADD] | ||||
| – British Paramount News begins regular release [ADD] | ||||
Other Key British Films of 1931 |
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| Ariane (Paul Czinner) [ADD] | ||||
| Rich and Strange (Alfred Hitchcock) [ADD] | ||||
| The Skin Game (Alfred Hitchcock) [ADD] | ||||
| Sunshine Susie (Victor Saville) [ADD] | ||||
| Tell England (Anthony Asquith) [ADD] | ||||
| The History of Cinema: 1931 | ||||
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| USA January - June | ||||
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