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1949 |
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26/1 - |
David Lean’s The Passionate Friends, starring Ann Todd and Claude Rains, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Charles Frend’s Scott of the Antarctic is released by Ealing. The film, shot in Technicolor, is based on the diaries kept by Scott during his ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. A cast brimming with stiff upper lips is led by John Mills as Scott, with manly support from Harold Warrender, Reginald Beckwith, Derek Bond and James Robertson Justice. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Henry Cornelius’s Passport to Pimlico is released by Ealing. The film focuses on a neighbourhood in London whose residents discover that they are actually part of the ancient dukedom of Burgundy and immediately declare their independence from the rest of Britain. The film stars Stanley Holloway, Margaret Rutherford and Philip Dupuis. [MORE] [ADD] |
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21/6 - |
Ealing release Kind Hearts and Coronets, directed by Robert Hamer. Alec Guinness plays eight parts in this adaptation of Roy Horniman’s novel, all of them heirs to a dukedom coveted by Dennis Price. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Shooting begins at Marylebone Studios on Eric Fawcett’s A Dinner Date with Death, the first British film made especially for TV. It is broadcast on the BBC and sold to US networks. [MORE] [ADD] |
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3/9 - |
Carol Reed’s adaptation of Graham Greene’s The Third Man, starring Orson Welles as the elusive Harry Lime, Joseph Cotten as friend and reporter Holly Martins, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– The Rank Organisation sells its Islington and Shepherds Bush studios to help pay off a £16m overdraft. It also sells its Shepherd’s Bush studio in Lime Grove to the BBC. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– The National Film Finance Corporation is created by the new Cinematograph Film Production (Special Loans) Act with the intention, ‘to make temporary provision for lending of money to be employed in financing the production or distribution’ of films’. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– British films achieve a total of 30.4% of average screen time under the quota law, against a target after exemptions of 33.6%. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– The government passes the British Film Institute Act. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– The Society of Film Teachers (later renamed the Society for Education in Film and Television (SEFT)) is established. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– The British Society of Cinematographers is founded. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Bray Film Studios is created at Down Place, former home of the notorious Kit-Kat Club in the eighteenth century. Hammer Film Productions becomes the studios’ principal user. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– James & John Woolf, sons of the late distributor and producer C. M. Woolf, found Romulus Films. [MORE] [ADD] |
