The Film Business

Ernest Betts

Acknowledgements Preface Part I: Beginnings 1. The Threepenny Cinema 2. First Features: Hepworth and Others 3. Early Influences 4. Pearson, Samuelson, Elvey and their Contemporaries 5. Sound Erupts in the 1920s 6. Of Cinemas, Societies and Institutions Part II: Development 7. Wardour Street: The Structure of the Industry 8. The Building of the Cinemas: Bromhead, Ostrer, Bernstein, Deutsch 9. The 1930s: Rank and the Great Carve-up of the Industry 10. Boom and Crisis in the 1930s 11. The Studios: Conditions of Filming Part III: The Film Matures 12. Alfred Hitchcock and Anthony Asquith 13. Victor Saville, Herbert Wilcox, and Others 14. Sense and the Censorship 15. Alexander Korda and the 1930s 16. More Directors of the 1930s 17. Brief Encounters: Filippo del Giudice and Gabriel Pascal Part IV: Documents and War Films 18. The Documentary Movement 1929-1940 19. War Films: Documentary, 1939-1945 20. War Films: Fiction and Semi-Fiction 21. War Films: The Final Phase: 1943-1945 Part V: End of the Great Days 22. War-Time Changes and the Monopoly Report 23. The Post-war Film Industry 24. TV Changes the Pattern 25. Some Post-war Films, 1945-1950 26. The Englishness of Ealing Part VI: Transition Stage 27. The Lion’s Tail Twisted 28. Transition in the 1950s Part VII: Into the 1970s 29. New Men, New Cinema 30. The Changing Background -1960s- 1970s 31. The Director as Super-star Conclusion Appendix I Appendix II Notes Bibliography Index