3. 1921 Victory Motion Pictures - co-founded with a Victor Saville. 1924 Gainsborough Pictures - co-founded with Graham Cutts. In charge of production. 1936 MGM-British - director of production. 1937 Ealing Studios - director and chief of production. 1959 Bryanston Films - founder. 1964 British Lion - chairman. Some of the films he produced for Gainsborough Pictures are: The Pleasure Garden (1925), The Mountain Eagle , The Lodger (1926), Woman to Woman (1929), Rome Express (1932), The Good Companions, I was a Spy (1933), Man of Aran, Evergreen, Little Friend (1934), First a Girl, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1935), Tudor Rose. Britain's contribution to cinema in the 1930s lay in a state-sponsored documentary tradition that would feed into the 1940s mainstream. Producer Michael Balcon revived the social/aesthetic distinction when he referred to the British industry's longstanding rivalry with Hollywood in terms of 'realism and tinsel'. Balcon, in his position as head of Ealing Studios, would become a key figure in the emergence of a national cinema characterised by stoicism and verisimilitude . Combining the objective temper and aesthetics of the documentary movement with the stars and resources of studio filmmaking, 1940s British cinema made a stirring appeal to a mass audience.