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The History of British Cinema: 1935 |
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Feb - |
United Artists buy a 50% share in the Odeon’s chain of 150 cinemas for £50.00. [ADD] | |||
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The National Film Archive is established. [ADD] | |||
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6/6 - |
The premiere of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Thirty-Nine Steps, which is based on John Buchan’s novel of the same name, takes place at the New Gallery Theatre in London. [ADD] | |||
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14/8 - |
Vivien Leigh signs a contract with Alexander Korda which allows her to act on the stage for six months each year. [ADD] | |||
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Western Electric refuse the BBC permission to televise sound films licensed by them. Lord Reith of the BBC appeals directly to David Sarnoff, and the decision is reversed. [ADD] | |||
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17/12 - |
The premiere of The Ghost Goes West, Rene Clair’s first English film, is attended by Queen Mary. The film stars Robert Donat and Jean Parker. [ADD] | |||
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31/12 - |
Box office takings for 1935 reach £907m, and the number of cinemas increases by 92. 88 new film production companies are registered. [ADD] | |||
| – Alan D. Blumlein at EMI makes an experimental film with stereophonic sound. [ADD] | ||||
| – Universal and C. M. Woolf set up General Film Distributors (GFD) [ADD] | ||||
| – American producer Joe Rock takes a long lease on the former Neptune Studios, and employs former lessee Ludwig Blattner’s son, Gerry Blattner, as manager. [ADD] | ||||
| – Julius Hagen, chief of Twickenham Film Distributors, buys Consolidated Studios at Elstree for his JH Productions to increase resources for making ‘quota quickies’ at his Twickenham Studios. Hagen also purchases the new Riverside Studios in Hammersmith. [ADD] | ||||
| – Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and a consortium headed by Lady Mountbatten’s brother-in-law, Captain A. Cunningham-Reid, form Criterion Film Productions. [ADD] | ||||
| – The Rank Organisation’s logo of a strong man striking a gong makes its first appearance. The man is Bombardier Billy Wells, and the gong is made of papier mache. The sound – of a 30” Chinese tam-tam is added later. [ADD] | ||||
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| – Len Lye’s 3-minute short, A Colour Box, the first animation in which the colours are painted directly onto the film, is released. [ADD] | ||||
| – The Bantu Educational Cinema Experiment (BEKE) is set up with the support of the Social and Industrial Research Department of the International Missionary Council, Carnegie Corporation and the Colonial Office make instructional, but entertaining, films for Africans. [ADD] | ||||
Other Key British Films of 1935 |
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| Coal Face (Alberto Cavalcanti) [ADD] | ||||
| Escape Me Never (Paul Czinner) [ADD] | ||||
| First a Girl (Victor Saville) [ADD] | ||||
| Housing Problems (Edgar Anstey, Arthur Elton) [ADD] | ||||
| Shipyard (Paul Rotha) [ADD] | ||||
The History of Cinema: 1935 |
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