Shell Cinemagazine

Dates: 1938 - 1952
Category: Cinemagazine - Industrial
History: Shell Cinemagazine was one of the first sponsored industrial cinemagazines, focusing each ten-minute issue on the activities of the company and the benefits of oil to the community. It was produced by the Shell Film Unit, which had been established by Jack Beddington in 1936 and run by Arthur Elton (Realist Film Producers and later Film Centre), on a consultancy basis. The series maintained high production values and was well received critically, acclaimed as ‘technically unsurpassed in any field.' The magazine was intended for non-theatrical distribution both at home and abroad, acting both as a public relations exercise and also a counter-balance to the large volume of technical films produced by Shell. In 1940 foreign language versions were produced in French, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch. Twenty issues were made over fourteen years
Provenance: Records for this series were constructed from Film User and the BFI Database.

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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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