British film industry history.

1930’S
So Britain is very well known for its
very unique industry of which was
said to have an all time high in
production at around 1936 but the
‘Golden-Age’ of British cinema is
thought to be in the early 1940s
due to the need of British
propaganda films. Films such as
‘Murder!’; ‘Ashes’ an even ‘Birds
of Pre’ were very successful
British films in the early age of
cinema.
British films from the 1930’s:
• http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film
/id/437995/index.html

1940’S
Yes during the 1940’s Britain was at
war with Germany and this meant
that expenses like going to the
cinema were or should have been
thought of as a luxury however the
British government made many
deals with the British film
companies to create propaganda
films to rally spirits and unite the
people against the Germans. So his
would have helped boost the
industry as money was going into
the pockets of the production
companies to help create morale
inspiring movies.
British films from the 1940’s:
• http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id
/445448/index.html
/439237/index.html
/438312/index.html
/438362/index.html

1950’S
Dealing with the stifling damage to Britain
and the country's economic struggles
the film industry was no longer needed
for propaganda films. This sent the
industry into a backwards spiral and
thus the continuous plummeting of the
British film industry began. And the
crippling debt that Britain was now
subjected to made trips to the cinema
less likely to occur. The Rank
Organisation closed 79 of its cinemas
in 1956 and Associated British Picture
Corporation closed 65 a year later. In
1951, cinema admissions had stood at
1,365 million in Britain; by 1960, the
figure was down to 500 million.
British Films in the 1950’s:
• http://www.screenonline.org.u
k/film/id/483144/index.html

1960’S
The 60’s was a surprising turn around for
British cinema with smash movies
arising, As a time of ‘free love’ and
flower power pop culture was becoming
a wider known thing and this meant
that film as a media could spread its
wings and create films with an easier
attitude to content. Additionally the
1960’s also gave way to the
commercially successful ‘carry on’
films along side the now thought to be
blockbuster ‘bond’ films.
British films in the 1960’s:
• http://www.screenonline.org
.uk/film/id/440678/index.ht
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1970’S
Popularly known, for reasons well beyond
cinematic ones, as "the decade that taste
forgot", the 1970s was certainly a decade
that the mainstream British film industry
would prefer to forget. Films like Stanley
Kubrick's ‘a Clockwork Orange’, the tempest,
and the wicker man launched Britain into the
decade where many thought British cinema
was dead. It was faced with two considerable
problems
The first problem being the introduction the new
domestic video recorder. This made straight
to home video imminent and films played on
television programmes easily recorded.
The second problem being Margaret Thatcher's
first Conservative government, which would
carry out its threat of cutting the
governments funding of the film industry
and this challenged production giving way to
Hollywood succeeding British cinema.
Additionally the glorification of sex and
British Films from the 1970’s:
• http://www.screenonline.org.
uk/film/id/818675/index.html

1980’S
The 80’s was seen as possibly the bleakest time
for British cinema as audiences were still not
enthusiastic in the masses. Most of the well-
heeled film companies such as Rank, EMI
and assorted Hollywood majors had either
pulled out of British production altogether or
were just about to. Ticket prices sky
rocketed as the newly elected conservative
government carried out its threat and
reduced funding for production so
admissions to British films had to be raised
to support the cost of filming. This appalled
the public and very many refused to go to
watch British films as Hollywood made films
were cheaper in comparison.
British Films in the 1980’s:
• http://www.screenonline.org.uk
/film/id/475379/index.html

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