Unilever Magazine

Dates

1950 - 1956

Category

Cinemagazine - Industrial

History

Unilever Magazine was a public relations tool designed to show the ‘different parts of a uniquely varied industrial group.' These ‘closely packed’ reviews of the company’s activities included stories ranging from canning fruit to trick photography, the construction of a new soap tower at Bristol and an underwater farm. Initially each issue lasted around twelve minutes but this was soon extended to twenty minutes. In 1957 the company advertised compilations of single magazine stories along particular themes due to increasing demand, particularly for educational purposes. Nine issues were made periodically between 1950 and 1956, although the original intention was to produce it on a quarterly basis.

Provenance

The records for this series were compiled from Film User, the BNFVC’s Retrospective File held at the BUFVC, the BFI Film & Television Database, and the North West Film Archive online catalogue.

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).

Series held

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Name

North West Film Archive

Email

nw.filmarchive@mmu.ac.uk

Web

http://www.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk

Phone

0161 247 3097

Fax

0161 247 3098

Address

The Manchester Metropolitan University
Minshull House
47-49 Chorlton Street
Manchester M1 3EU

Series held

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