| Description | Correspondence and other records regarding the formation activities and development of the Cine Group and Film Unit at Dartington Hall. Subjects include: estimates for the cost of making a film about Dartington; estimates for sound equipment for the Barn Theatre; screenings of films Limestone and Sheep Dip; a first draft of a scenario of the estate film; estimates for the cost of making a 35mm sound film; a critique of three Dartington Hall films; death of William Hunter; an application for a grant for the Dartington Hall Film Unit with budgets for films; and a conference concerning the future of the Dartington Hall Film Unit.
Correspondents include: William Elmhirst; Kay Starr; Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst; Christopher Martin; William Hunter; William K Slater; Arthur Elton, Associated Realist Film Producers Ltd; and G P Meredith.
Additional material includes: draft notes on the Cine Group by the Executive Committee and a budget; a press cutting 'Educational Films The First Comprehensive Catalogue'; a suggested programme for films regarding the work of the estate; a proposal for classroom film on the Peak District; a report for Dartington Hall Trustees on the Experimental Classroom Film; a synopsis for a sound film (35 mm) about the Dartington Hall experiment with a running time of 11 minutes; notes on the potentialities of 16 mm films for instructional and propaganda purposes; an article by William Hunter 'Crisis in Production. The Present Position and a Possible Solution'; The Film Council of the South West Constitution; Dartington Film Unit reports; printed pamphlets and articles including 'Progress in Visual Education', 'The Visual Education Centre, Exeter', 'Educational Film', 'Visual Education in the Air Age' and Bulletins of Visual Education. |