|
Search By:
|
The History of British Cinema: 1933 |
|
||
|
|
||||
| 17/8 - | Alexander Korda’s The Private Life of Henry VIII, starring Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Robert Donat, Merle Oberon and Binnie Barnes, premieres in London. The film, which cost £93,710 to produce goes on to earn more than £500,000 internationally. [ADD] | |||
| 1/9 - | The British Film Institute is established. The Duke of Sutherland is appointed its first president, while novelist John Buchan is nominated president of the advisory board. The Institute’s aim is to “encourage the development of the art of the film [and] to testify to life and its mores.” It also announces plans to publish a magazine of reviews and articles called The Monthly Film Bulletin. [ADD] | |||
| 15/9 - | The government discontinues its funding of the Empire Marketing Board, Britain’s documentary filmmaking organisation. The unit will now be sponsored by the GPO (General Post Office) and will be known as the GPO Film Unit. [ADD] | |||
| – The Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC) is created as a holding company for ABC, Pathe Pictures, British International Pictures, Wardour Films and British Instructional Films. [ADD] | ||||
| – Associated Radio Pictures’ name is changed to Associated Talking Pictures. [ADD] | ||||
| – Whitehall Studios in Elstree is refurbished. [ADD] | ||||
| – J. W. Almond and Edward Gourdeau purchase Worton Hall Studios at Isleworth, West London. Over the next 12 months the studio is refurbished and a Western Electric sound recording system is installed. [ADD] | ||||
| – A group of workers at Shepherd’s Bush Studios form the Association of Cine Technicians (ACT) [ADD] | ||||
| – Kingsway General Films Ltd is renamed the Britone Sound Studios. [ADD] | ||||
| – 169 films are produced in Great Britain in 1933. [ADD] | ||||
Other Key British Films of 1933 |
||||
 |
||||
| Bitter Sweet (Herbert Wilcox) [ADD] | ||||
| The Good Companions (Victor Saville) [ADD] | ||||
| 90 Degrees South (Herbert Ponting) [ADD] | ||||
The History of Cinema: 1933 |
||||
| Argentina - Finland | ||||
| France | ||||
| Germany - Italy | ||||
| Macedonia - USSR | ||||
| USA January - April | ||||
| USA May - August | ||||
| USA September - December | ||||
