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Businesses (24)
- Artificial Eye Film Co Ltd, film distributors London
- Associated-Rediffusion Ltd, independent television programme producers London
- Children's Film and Television Foundation Ltd, production company, London London
- Crown Theatre (Coventry) Ltd, cinema Coventry, Warwickshire
- Derrick Knight and partners, film producers and directors
- 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
- Halas and Batchelor, animation studio United Kingdom
- Hammer Films, film production company London
- Hovercraft Consultants Ltd, hovercraft designers Southampton, Hampshire
- Incorporated Association of Kinematograph Manufacturers Ltd London
- London Film Productions Shepperton, Middlesex
- Provincial Cinematograph Theatres Ltd, cinema proprietors London
- Pukka Films Ltd, motion picture producers London
- Shepherds Bush Pavilion Shepherds Bush, Middlesex
- Smart Egg Pictures, film production company United States of America
- Southern Television Southampton, Hampshire
- The Works Film Group Ltd London
- Topical Film Co Ltd, film manufacturers London
- Vanson Wardle Productions Ltd, film and television production company London
- Video Arts Ltd, training film company, London 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 (221)
- Acres, Birt, (1854-1918), cinematographer
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Broomfield, Nick, (b1948), Documentary Film Maker London
- 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 (casting), Muriel, (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
- Croft, Stuart, (1970-2015), cinematographer Leeds, Yorkshire;London
- Cunynghame, Sir Henry David St Leger Brooke Selwyn, (1905-1978), 11th Baronet
- Dalby, Stephen, (1910-2008), audio engineer
- Dale, Margaret, (b 1922), choreographer, director and producer
- Daniels, Phyllis Virginia (Bebe), (1901-1971), actress Dallas, Texas
- 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, (b1937), 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
- Gili, Jonathan, (1943-2004), film maker, editor and director Oxford, Oxfordshire
- 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
- Gyles, Anna Benson, (fl 1960-1990), director, editor, producer
- Hamermesh, Mira, (1923-2012), film-maker Poland
- Hamilton, Guy, (1922-2016), film director
- Harcourt, David, (1915-2013), camera operator Hampstead, Middlesex
- Harris, Julie, (1921-2015), costume designer
- Havelock-Allan, Sir Anthony James Allan, (1904-2003), 4th Baronet Film Producer
- 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 Tommy, (b1932), film director, screenwriter, playwriter and novelist
- 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, film maker and gay rights activist
- 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
- Kastner, Elliott, (1933-2010), film producer London;New York, New York
- Kelly, Eugene Curran (Gene), (1912-1996), Actor, dancer, singer, director, producer, choreographer
- Kemp-Welch, Joan, (1906-1999), television producer and director
- 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 Sullivan, (1902-1986), 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 Isaac Pasternak, (1917-2008), 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
- Manderson, Tommie, (1912-2015), make-up artist Liverpool, Lancashire
- Margolyes, Miriam, (b 1941), actress
- Martin, Francis, (fl1990-2001), artist
- 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
- Morgan, Robert, (b1974), animator Yateley, Hampshire
- Morris, Oswald, (1915-2014), cinematographer Ruislip, Middlesex
- 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
- Padfield, Adrian, (fl 1950-1961), anaesthetist
- Parker, Alan, (1944-2020), director, writer and producer Islington, Middlesex
- 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
- Percy Day, Walter, (1878-1965), special effects technician Luton, Bedfordshire;Los Angeles, California
- 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
- Reid, Alastair, (1939-2011), director Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Relph, Michael, (1915-2004), film producer and director
- Relph, Simon, (b1940), film producer and director
- Rockas, Angelique, (fl 1980-2017), actress
- 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 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- 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 Louie, (1925-2018), BBC editor and head of radio; film and television censor
- Skinner, Ann, (b 1937), film producer London
- Smedley-Aston, Edward Michael, (1912-2006), film producer and director
- Sorensen, Colin Edward, (1930-2001), film historian
- Spark, Dame Muriel Sarah, (1918-2006), author
- Stamp, Terence Henry, (b 1938), actor Stepney, Middlesex
- Stoppard, Tom, (b 1937), playwright and novelist
- Stroud, John, (1955-2009), television producer and director Gillingham, Kent
- Suschitzky, Wolfgang, (1912-2016), cinematographer Vienna, Austria;London
- 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, (1917-2010), film director
- Trevelyan, John, (b 1904), Secretary British Board of Film Censors
- Turner, John Nathan, (1947-2002), Television Producer
- Van Den Bogaerde, Sir Derek Niven, (1921-1999), Kinight, actor
- Whately, Kevin, (b 1951), actor
- Wheatley, Alan, (1907-1991), actor
- Whicker, Alan Donald, (1921-2013), journalist, television presenter and broadcaster
- Whitaker, Harold Jackson, (1920-2013), animator Cottingham, Yorkshire
- White, Leonard, (1916-2016), producer Newhaven, Sussex
- 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
- Young, Frederick, (1902-1998), cinematographer London
Diaries (12)
- Clark, Cecilia Darby, (b 1925), wardrobe mistress
- Clark, Livingstone Veitch, (b 1899), make up artist Elstree, Hertfordshire;St Marylebone, Middlesex
- Dean, N Clifton, Film Salesman
- Handford, Peter, (1919-2007), location sound recordist 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
Accessions
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