Ingot Pictorial

Dates

1949 - 1959

Category

Cinemagazine - Industrial

History

Ingot Pictorial was produced by Technical and Scientific Films and later, Verity Films, for the sponsors, Richard Thomas and Baldwins Group (RTB). It was distributed by Sound-Services, a mobile cinema service, on 16mm to leisure groups and schools. Four editions were produced each year, on a quarterly basis. The purpose of the series, according to Howard Marshall, director of RTB personnel and public relations and frequent commentator for the series, was to instil a ‘sense of pride’ in the company. Issues were shown at the company’s works, during 20-minute lunch-time shows from a mobile van, and at local cinemas to which employees could take their wives and families. In this way, RTB claimed that they showed each issue to 25,000 workers in 30 works scattered from Lancashire to South Wales (Film User no.66 p. 176 April 1952). The series ran for 35 issues, although records only exist for issues 2 to 34. There is evidence of some international distribution through a reference to Ingot Overseas no. 3.

Provenance

Information for the records on this series has been taken from issues of The Film User and the British Film Institute Film & TV Database.

Films in this series can be obtained from:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

For BFI National Archive enquiries: nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk For commercial/footage reuse enquiries: footage.films@bfi.org.uk

Web

http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web

Phone

020 7255 1444

Fax

020 7580 7503

Address

21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN

Notes

The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).

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