| Description | This series contains letters, a press statement, typescripts, memorandum, notes pamphlets and press cuttings relating to the controversy surrounding the proposed 1938 Act, which continued with quotas for British films, and some subsequent film acts.
[As part of his work for the Association of Cine-Technicians, Thorold Dickinson followed the decisions made by the Board of Trade, relating in particular to the Board's 10 year renewel of the 1927 Cinematograph Films Act, which introduced quotas for British film output based on quantity. The result of this Act was the making of 'quota quickies', which were criticized for bringing the British film industry into disrepute.]
[Please note that the 1938 Cinematograph Films Act is often referred to as the 1937 Act, the Film Quota Act, the Cinematograph Films Bill and so on. Where this has happened, the catalogue description always refers to the 1938 Act.] |