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The History of British Cinema |
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22/1 - |
Julien Duvivier’s adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is released. Vivien Leigh stars in the title role, with support provided by Ralph Richardson and Kieron Moore. [ADD] |
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John Grierson’s appointment as Controller of Film Operations at the Central Office of Information gives him overall responsibility for all government film activity. [ADD] |
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The government repeals its levy on film imports in accordance with the Anglo-American Film Agreement. [ADD] |
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The government announces plans for a National Film Finance Corporation (NFFC) for the purpose of making loans to British production companies. There will no longer be any to the Board of Trade. [ADD] |
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Michael Powell’s musical fantasy The Red Shoes, based on the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale, is released. Filmed in sumptuous colour, the film stars Moira Shearer as the ballerina possessed by a pair of red ballet shoes. [ADD] |
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Screen time quotas come into effect. [ADD] |
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– The new Films Act sets the British screen quota for the coming year from October at 45% for first feature films and 25% for supporting programmes. Hollywood responds by refusing to allow any American film to be double-billed in England with a British film. [ADD] |
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– The Board of Trade announces that there will no longer be an American representative on the Cinematograph Films Council Advisory Group. [ADD] |
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– Having failed to make an impression on the US theatrical market, Ealing, Rank and London Film Productions start supplying films to US television networks. [ADD] |
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– James Carreras founds Hammer Film Productions. Carreras is the son of Enrique Carreras, former partner in the House of Hammer production company with Will Hammer (William Hinds) in the mid 1930s. [ADD] |
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– Alliance Film Studios acquires Riverside Studios in Hammersmith. [ADD] |
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– Teddington Studios re-opens. [ADD] |
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– The British Universities Film Council is founded. [ADD] |
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– The Wheare Committee on Children and the Cinema is appointed to examine the possible influence of films on the moral and social development of young people. [ADD] |
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Other Key British Films of 1948 |
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| Oliver Twist (David Lean) [ADD] | ||||
The History of World Cinema: 1948 |
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