Elstree Group
The Elstree Group was a name given to a financing scheme that operated for British films made by Associated British Pictures Corporation in the early 1950s. Associated British would make movies with part of the fiance being provided by the National Film Finance Corporation.[1]
It was one of three such schemes that operated around this time, the others being British Film-Makers (which operated through the Rank Organisation) and Group 3 Films.[2] The Elstree Group was the least prolific, making five films in all. What films were made had to be approved by Robert Clark of Associated British and James Lawrie of the NFFC.[3][4]
ABPC, unlike Rank, refused to establish a separate holding and management company for the NFFC-financed films. [5]
Films
[edit]- The Woman's Angle (1952)
- So Little Time (1952)
- Angels One Five (1952)
- Father's Doing Fine (1952)
- The Yellow Balloon (1953)
References
[edit]- ^ MacCann, Richard Dyer (July 1977). "Subsidy for the Screen Grierson and Group 3". Sight and Sound. pp. 168–173.
- ^ "National Film Finance Corporation". Sight and Sound. January–March 1952. p. 14.
- ^ The British film industry. Political and Economic Planning. 1952. p. 261.
- ^ "NFFC Prod Scheme seen as solving many of England's filmmaking woes". Variety. 31 January 1951. p. 11.
- ^ Harper, Sue; Porter, Vincent (2003). British cinema of the 1950s : the decline of deference. Oxford University Press. p. 77.