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Businesses (22)
- Artificial Eye Film Co Ltd, film distributors London
- Associated-Rediffusion Ltd, independent television programme producers London
- Halas and Batchelor, animation studio United Kingdom
- Children's Film and Television Foundation Ltd, production company, London London
- Crown Theatre (Coventry) Ltd, cinema Coventry, Warwickshire
- Educational and Television Films
- Electric & Musical Industries Ltd (EMI), manufacturers of gramophones, gramophone records and accessories, radios, domestic electrical appliances and electronic equipment Hayes, Middlesex
- Electric Pictures, film distributor London
- Film Contracts Ltd, television commercial producers London
- Grand Cinema Ramsey, Huntingdonshire
- Hammer Films, film production company London
- Hovercraft Consultants Ltd, hovercraft designers Southampton, Hampshire
- Incorporated Association of Kinematograph Manufacturers Ltd London
- Derrick Knight and partners, film producers and directors
- London Film Productions Shepperton, Middlesex
- Provincial Cinematograph Theatres Ltd, cinema proprietors London
- Pukka Films Ltd, motion picture producers London
- Smart Egg Pictures, film production company United States of America
- Southern Television Southampton, Hampshire
- Topical Film Co Ltd, film manufacturers London
- Vanson Wardle Productions Ltd, film and television production company London
- The Works Film Group Ltd London
Organisations (14)
- Arts Council England
- Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians
- British Board of Film Classification
- British Film Institute
- Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Technicians Union (BECTU)
- Cinema Action, film collective
- Commission on Education and Cultural Films
- Film Society
- Independent Film Makers Association
- London Scientific Film Society London
- Newsreel Association of Great Britain and Ireland
- Producers' Alliance for Cinema and Television Ltd, London London
- Progressive Film Institute
- Society for Film History
Persons (201)
- Acres, Birt (1854-1918) cinematographer
- Allan, Sir Anthony James Allan Havelock- (1904-2003), 4th Baronet Film Producer
- Angers, Avril (1918-2005), actress
- Annakin, Kenneth Cooper (1914-2009), film director
- Anstey, Edgar Harold Macfarlane (1907-1987) Film Producer Lecturer and Critic
- Ashby, Sam (fl 2000-2013), artist and film poster designer London
- Asquith, Anthony (1902-1968) Film Director
- Aston, Edward Michael Smedley- (1912-2006), film producer and director
- Baddeley, Walter Hugh (1912-1994), film director, producer and scriptwriter
- Baker, Roy Ward (1916-2010), film director
- Balcon, Sir Michael (1896-1977) Knight, film producer
- Barry, Iris (1895-1969) Writer
- Baxter, John (1896-1975), film director, producer and writer
- Beavan, Jenny (b1950), costume designer
- Bernstein, Sidney Lewis (1899-1993) Baron Bernstein, businessman
- Best, Richard (1916-2004), film editor
- Blair, Elizabeth Winifred (Betsy) (1923-2009), actress London;United States of America
- Blyton, Carey (1932-2002), film and tv music composer Beckenham, Kent;Swanley, Kent
- Bogaerde, Sir Derek Niven Van Den (1921-1999) Kinight, actor
- Booth, Valerie (fl 1960-1989), film continuity editor
- Boulting, John Edward (1913-1985) film producer and director Bray, Berkshire
- Boulting, Roy Alfred Clarence (1913-2001), film producer and director Bray, Berkshire
- Box, Muriel (1905-1991) film writer producer director
- Box, Sydney (1907-1983), film producer and screenwriter
- Braden, Bernard Chastey (1930-1992), actor, comedian, television presenter and writer Canada;United Kingdom
- Bron, Eleanor (b 1938), actress and television scriptwriter
- Brook, Clive (1887-1974) Actor
- Brown, Harold Godart (1919-2008), film archivist and technician
- Brownlow, Kevin (b 1938), film maker, historian and author Crowborough, Sussex
- Brunel, Adrian Hope (1892-1958) Film Director and Playwright
- Bulleid, Henry Anthony Vaughan (1912-2009), amateur film maker, writer, film historian and railway engineer
- Burn, Michael Clive (b 1912) Writer
- Carter, Sheila (c1900-2000), screenwriter
- Cartier, Rudolph (1904-1994), director, producer and screenwriter Vienna, Austria
- Cartlidge, Katrin (1961-2002), actress
- Chadbon, Tom (b 1946), actor Luton, Bedfordshire
- Chaplin, Sir Charles Spencer (1889-1977) Knight, film actor and producer
- Christie, Julie Frances (b 1940), actress
- Churchill, Donald (1930-1991), actor and screenwriter
- Clarke, John Theobald (1926-2013), director, producer, screenwriter and actor
- Clarke, Thomas Ernest Bennett (1907-1989), screenwriter
- Clayton, Jack (1921-1995), Film director Brighton, Sussex
- Climie, David (1920-1995), Writer
- Cole, Muriel (casting) (1914-2012), assistant director and casting director, film Willesden, Middlesex
- Cooper, Adrian (1929-2008), director and producer
- Cooper, Ralph (1913-1996), film publicist
- Coulson, Peter (fl1960-2005), film editor
- Coward, Sir Noel (1899-1973) Knight, playwright and composer
- Crichton, Charles (1910-1999) producer and director
- Croall, John Alfred Louden (1898-1979), actor Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Cunynghame, Sir Henry David St Leger Brooke Selwyn (1905-1978) 11th Baronet
- Dalby, Stephen (1910-2008), camera operator (film)
- Dale, Margaret (b 1922), choreographer, director and producer
- Davidson, Basil Risbridger (1914-2010), author and historian
- Davis, Desmond (b 1927), director, cameraman and producer London
- Dean, Basil (1888-1978), actor and theatrical manager
- Dell, Jeffrey (1899-1985), Film Director, Writer
- Dickinson, Thorold (1903-1979), Professor of Film,Film Director, Producer
- Donner, Clive (b 1926) Film Director
- Dunkley, Christopher (b 1944), television critic
- East, John M (1932-2003), actor, publicist, director, writer
- Edwards, Henry (1883-1952), film director, producer and actor
- Eisenstein, Sergei Mikhaylovich (1898-1948) Russian Film Director
- Eyles, Penny (b 1938), script supervisor
- Faithfull, Geoffrey (1893-1979), cameraman
- Farr, Derek (1912-1986), actor London
- Ferman, James (1930-2002), President of the British Board of Film Classification
- Fisher, Gerry (b 1926), cinematographer
- Fisher, Terence (1904-1980) film director
- Foreman, Carl (1914-1984) screen writer producer director
- Fox, Edward (b 1937) Actor
- Garnett, Tony (b 1936), film and television producer Birmingham, Warwickshire
- Genn, Leo John (1905-1978) actor barrister
- Gilbert, John Selwyn (b 1943) BBC TV Producer
- Gliddon, John (1897-1990), agent and actor
- Godwin, Frank (1917-2012), writer and producer London
- Graef, Roger (b 1936) television producer, director and scriptwriter
- Greatorex, Wilfrid (1922-2002), documentary film and TV series writer
- Green, Janet (1914-1993), Screenwriter
- Greene, Graham (1904-1991), novelist
- Griffiths, Roger Ashton- (b 1957), actor
- Griffiths, Trevor (b 1935), playwright
- Grigsby, Michael (b1936), film director Reading, Berkshire
- Grunwald, Dimitri de (1914-1990), film producer
- Guest, Valmond (b 1911) Film Producer and Director
- Hamermesh, Mira (1923-2012), film-maker Poland
- Hamilton, Guy (1922-2016), film director
- Harris, Julie (1921-2015), costume designer
- Hawkesworth, John Stanley (1920-2003), film and television producer, scriptwriter
- Hay, Pearl (b1920), actress London
- Hay, Will (1888-1949) Film Stage and Radio Actor
- Hemming, Lindy (b 1948), costume designer
- Hill, Alan Rowland (1911-1986), Film Producer, Director
- Hill, Bluey (1911-1986), Australian film director and producer
- Hobbs, Christopher (b 1945), film production designer
- Hodges, Michael (b 1932) Film Director
- Hodgkinson, Terence (fl 1980-2000), script writer
- Hopkinson, Peter (b 1920) documentary film maker
- Houghton, Don (1930-1991) film producer and scriptwriter
- Hyem, Jill (1937-2015), writer
- Jacobs, Bertram (fl 1920-1945) Screen Writer as Benedict James
- Jarman, Derek (1942-1994), artist, painter and film maker
- Jennings, Humphrey (1907-1950) Film Director
- Johnston, Joanna (b1960), costume designer
- Jones, James Cellan (b 1931), television director and producer
- Jones, Kenneth V (b 1924), composer
- Junge, Alfred (1886-1964) art director
- Kelly, Eugene Curran (Gene) (1912-1996), Actor, dancer, singer, director, producer, choreographer
- Kerr, Deborah Jane (1921-2007), actress
- Knox, Alexander (1907-1995), actor
- Krasker, Robert (1913-1981) cinematographer
- Krish, John (b1923), film director and screen writer
- Lanchester, Elsa (b 1902) Actress
- Lawrence, Harold John (d 2003), film enthusiast
- Lean, David (1908-1991), Film Director
- Lennard, Walter Robert (b 1912), Casting director
- Lester, Richard (b1932), film director
- Levenson, Gerald (b1915), film technician
- Lewis, Johnathan (b1949), film producer and director
- Lloyd, Euan (b 1923), director
- Loach, Ken (b1936), television and film director Nuneaton, Warwickshire
- Longfellow, Malvina (d 1962), actress
- Losey, Joseph (1909-1984) Film Director
- Margolyes, Miriam (b 1941), actress
- Mason, James (1909-1984) actor
- Maugham, Robert Cecil Romer (1916-1981) 2nd Viscount Maugham, author
- McCarthy, Michael (1917-1959), director and scriptwriter
- McGrath, John (1935-2002), playwright, director, producer and scriptwriter
- Mendes, Lothar (1894-1974) Hungarian Film Director
- Mendoza, John (b1921), film director
- Mercer, David (1928-1980) Playwright
- Merzbach, Paul (fl 1900-1915) Screen Writer
- Miles, Bernard James (1907-1991) Baron Miles, actor
- Miles, Michael (1919-1971), television presenter
- Milne, Tom (1926-2005), film critic Malaya
- Moffat, Peter (1923-2007), actor and director Newington, Kent
- Montagu, Ivor Goldsmid Samuel (1904-1984) Film Critic and Producer Sportsman and Communist
- Montgomery, Doreen (1913-1992), writer Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Morgan, Joan (1905-2004), actress, playwright and novelist
- Mortimer, Johnnie (1930 - 1992), television screen-writer
- Mycroft, Walter (1890-1959), film producer
- Nathan, Matthew (1907-1990), film maker
- Naughton, William John Francis (1910-1992), Author and Playwright
- Noble, Peter (1917-1997), film producer, screen writer and critic
- O'Brien, Catherine (1916-2005), film publicist
- Orrom, Michael (1920-1997) documentary film maker
- Parker, Alan (b 1944), director, writer and producer
- Parslow, Ray Howard (1924-1997), cinematographer
- Pavlow, Muriel Lilian (b 1921), actress Leigh, Kent
- Pearson, George (1875-1973) Film Writer Producer and Director
- Peet, Stephen (1920-2005), documentary producer, director and photographer
- Pickering, Peter (b1924), film director, screen writer and editor
- Pinter, Harold (1930-2008) CBE, actor and playwright Hackney, Middlesex
- Plater, Alan Frederick (1935-2010), author and playwright
- Potter, Dennis Christopher George (1935-1994) Playwright and Journalist
- Poulton, Mabel (b 1905) actress
- Powell, Elizabeth Dilys (1901-1995), film critic and author
- Powell, Michael Latham (1905-1990), film director, producer and writer
- Pressburger, Emeric (1902-1988), author and screenwriter
- Pudovkin, Vsevolod Illarionovich (1893-1953) Russian Film Director
- Purviance, Edna (1895-1958), actress
- Puttnam, David Terence (b 1941) Baron Puttnam, film producer
- Reed, Sir Carol (1906-1976), Knight and film director
- Reeve, Reginald Daniel Herbert (1908-1999), illustrator and designer
- Relph, Michael (1915-2004), film producer and director
- Relph, Simon (b1940), film producer and director
- Rosher, Charles (1885-1974) American Cinematographer
- Sasdy, Peter (b 1935), film and television director
- Sax, Caroline (fl 1980-2010), script writer, director and producer
- Schlesinger, John (1926-2003), actor, film producer, director and scriptwriter
- Searle, Ronald William Fordham (1920-2011), artist, satirical cartoonist
- Sellers, Peter Richard Henry (1925-1980) actor
- Selway, Mary (1936-2004), casting agent and film and television producer
- Shaw, Robert (1927-1978), author and actor
- Shields, Stanley (fl 1948-1966), film art director
- Shivas, Mark (1938-2008), television and film producer
- Shubik, Irene (b1929), television producer Hampstead, Middlesex
- Simmons, Anthony (b 1922), director West Ham, Essex
- Simmons, Jean Merilyn (1929-2010), actress, OBE London
- Sims, Monica (b1960), film and television censor
- Skinner, Ann (b 1937), film producer London
- Sorensen, Colin Edward (1930-2001), film historian
- Spark, Dame Muriel Sarah (1918-2006), Dame, author
- Stamp, Terence Henry (b 1938), actor Stepney, Middlesex
- Stoppard, Tom (b 1937), playwright and novelist
- Symons, Annie (b 1960), costume designer
- Thomas, Gerald (1920-1993), director
- Toller, Ernst (1893-1939) German Poet and Playwright
- Topolski, Feliks (1907-1989) Painter
- Toye, Wendy (b 1917), film director
- Trevelyan, John (b 1904) Secretary British Board of Film Censors
- Turner, John Nathan (1947-2002), Television Producer
- Welch, Joan Kemp- (1906-1999) television producer and director
- Whately, Kevin (b 1951), actor
- Wheatley, Alan (1907-1991), actor
- Whitaker, Harold Jackson (1920-2013), animator Cottingham, Yorkshire
- Williams, Derek (b 1929), film director, writer and cinematograher Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland
- Winner, Michael Robert (1935-2013), film director, producer and writer Hampstead, Middlesex
- Wollen, Peter (b1938), academic and film maker
- Woods, S John (1915-1997), advertising director and artist Ealing, Middlesex;London
- York, Susannah (1939-2001), actress Chelsea, Middlesex
Diaries (12)
- Clark, Cecilia Darby (b 1925), wardrobe mistress
- Clark, Livingstone Veitch (b 1899), make up artist of Elstree Elstree, Hertfordshire;St Marylebone, Middlesex
- Dean, N Clifton (fl 1926-1948) Film Salesman
- Handford, Peter (1919-2007), location sound recordist of Four Elms Four Elms, Kent
- Jones, Julia (fl 1965-96) Script Writer And Actress
- Jordan, Bob (fl 1963-1972), camerman
- Keelan, Adam (fl 1999), film producer
- McDonnell, Gordon (1905-1995), writer
- Quibell, Ron (1920 - 2011), film enthusiast
- Rogers, Anne (fl 1950-1979), film producer's assistant
- Thornycroft, Martyn (fl 1940-1979), film extra
- Vicary, RJ (fl 1930-1979), film enthusiast
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (2)
- NRA 34678 British Film Institute: MS collections
- NRA 42784 John Selwyn Gilbert, television scriptwriter, director and producer: project files link to scanned list
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