| Description | Correspondence and other records regarding the establishment, organisation, finance, administration, film production and activities of the Dartington Hall Film Unit. Subjects include: arrangements for a conference to be held at Dartington Hall to discuss the production, distribution and use of films in schools and to advise the Dartington Hall Trustees on the future of their Film Unit and the practicability of maintaining it at Dartington Hall; a proposal by Travelling Films Ltd to use the Barn Theatre as one of regular halls to show non-theatrical films; and the appointment of Tom Stobart as the Director-Producer of the Dartington Hall Film Unit.
Correspondents include: John Wales; Leonard Elmhirst; F A S Gwatkin; Peter Cox; Tom Stobart; James Beveridge, National Film Board; John Trevelyn, Director of Education, County Hall; Elmslie Philip; Wilfred Hiley; Paul Rotha, Rotha Film; and F A Wadhams.
Additional material includes: a prospectus 'The Dartington Hall Film Unit'; a memorandum by John Wales (1944); a report by Peter Cox; a 'Supplement to the Arts Department Trustees' Report' (1945 and 1946); 'Notes on a proposed film production programme, based on continuance of present film unit plus added personnel and facilities' by James Beveridge; a programme for the Dartington Hall Film Conference and a list of those invited; an agenda for 'Discussion'; 'Notes for the Trustees' Meeting'; minutes from an extraordinary meeting of the Trustees (Arts Department); a 'Report on the Use and Production of Educational Film Generally' by John Wales; a 'Report to outline the advantages and possible function of a film unit at Dartington and to present proposals for its constitution and finance for consideration by the Trustees'; an 'Unofficial Report on Educational Films' by Ken Annakin; a report regarding arrangements for the Film Unit to be set up on a professional basis; a report for National Committee for Education in Visual Aids; minutes of the Arts Administration Sub-Committee meeting; a 'Supplement Note on the Reconstitution of the Film Unit'; an agenda and report for the Film Unit Management Committee Meeting; and a 'Report to the Trustees on the Development of the Film Unit at Dartington' by T R Stobart (1946). |