| Description | Correspondence and other records primarily regarding the activities of Tom Stobart and Dartington Hall Film Unit including its closure.
Subjects include: the establishment of the Film Unit as a sub-unit of the Arts Department; arrangements for contracts; arrangements for insurance for employees; payment for a portable generator, negotiations with the Central Information Office regarding the finance of a film on Artificial Insemination; sponsorship by Penguin Books for a series of Scientific News Magazine Films to be made by Dartington Hall Film Unit; a Easter course on film-making at Dartington Hall including the acceptance of Gerard F S Bean; Clifford Ellis' production of lithographs for the film 'Animals on the Farm'; the making of short educational films on 'Spider' and 'Tadpole to Frog'; arrangements for Bert Foote to instruct pupils at Dartington Hall School on film technique; financial assistance from the Educational Foundation for Visual Aids; a request by Plymouth Films to remain at Dartington Hall as a separate firm renting accommodation; the transfer of equipment to Dartington Hall School; the shooting and editing of a film by Tom Stobart on Microbiology sponsored by the Elmgrant Trust and using facilities provided by Realist Film Unit; copies of a broadcast of a programme on Dartington Hall; and the transfer of negatives.
Correspondents include: John Wales; Peter Cox; Peter Sutcliffe; Elise Snoggs; John Shaw; John Grierson, Films Division of the Central Office of Information; Tom Stobart; L Kerslake, Devon Electric; A Quinlan-Stafford; Allen Lane, Penguin Books; L C Billingham, Bristol and West Recording Service; G L Sibbons, British Council to Eileen Long; W B Curry; Leonard Elmhirst; John P Maxton, Institute of Agrarian Affairs; Thomas Taig, Department of Drama, University of Bristol; John Dooley, Plymouth Films; Kay Starr; Kathleen Hull-Brown; Barbara Jewell; W G Little, Dartington Hall Film Society; D W Aldous, Sound Recording Consultant; and Florence Burton
Additional material includes: articles, press cuttings and advertisements; a suggested outline for a film on Dartington with notes by Leonard Elmhirst; a draft copy of a report on Dartington Hall Film Unit by Tom Stobart (1947); budgets for the library, photographic department, cartoon unit, theatre and production unit; minutes from 3 meetings of the Film Unit Management Committee (1947); expenditure account; a report on accounting, production policy, summer schools, equipment, sound recording, diagrams and animation, and film strips; notes by John Wales for a film on 'Artificial Insemination'; 'An Economic Survey and Recommendations for Reorganisation' by A Quinlan-Stafford; a report on the 'Use of the Film Studio for Hire'; an application for the Easter film course from Gerard F S Bean; a list of students for the Easter course in film-making; film unit programme (1948); a report by Gerard F S Bean on the Easter course on film-making; a 'Supplementary Note on the Reconstitution of the Film Unit'; notes from George Bennett's letters listing equipment including details of who owns each item and the condition it is in. An agreement for the provision of facilities by Realist Film Unit to Tom Stobart to enable him to film and edit a 2 reel subject 'Basic Micro-Biology'; a report to the Trustees; and a list detailing the disposal of equipment to Encyclopaedia Britannica, Adult Education Centre, Dartington Hall School, Dartington Hall Arts Department, and T Stobart. |