| Description | Correspondence and other records primarily regarding the activities of Dartington Hall Film Unit and its staff including the production of films including educational films and teaching notes. Subjects include: a critique of three Dartington Hall Films by Arthur Elton; salaries; appointments including Bert Foote to be technically responsible for the theatre and its equipment, Sydney Sharples as technician, Tom Stobart as Director; the production of a film by Tom Stobart on ' Microbiology'; John Wales' future involvement with Dartington Hall Film Unit; the loan of Leonard Elmhirst's print of Visscher's 'View of London, 1616' by John Doodley; and Tom Stobart membership to the Everest Expedition Team.
Correspondents include: Peter Ebert; Leonard Elmhirst; Christopher Martin; Bert Foote; Sydney Sharples; Gabriel Pascal; Tom Stobart; John Wales; Peter Sutcliffe; John Dooley, Plymouth Films; Dorothy Elmhirst; Alec Stafford; W H Youren; and Paul Rotha.
Additional material includes: The Dartington Hall Film Unit Prospectus and Catalogue; Film Library of the South West, Ministry of Information Silent Films Catalogue; Catalogue of Educational Films for the Film Council of the South West; Film Library of the South West, Ministry of Information Catalogue Supplementary List; Film Library of the South West Catalogue of Ministry of Information Films; Teaching Notes for the films 'Clogs in Lancashire', 'The Story of Timber', 'Milk', 'Bacon', 'South West Peninsula', 'Rivers', 'Upland and Lowland Farm', 'Apple Vintage', 'Galapagos' and 'Two Norwegian Towns'; a list of Forestry and Agriculture films held in the Dartington Hall Library that might be useful to Department on the Estate; Notes on possible developments of the Film Unit; Film Unit Programme (1948); 'Proposals for making films for farmers and young farmers'; 'The production of 'Artificial Insemination' and a proposal for the future' by Peter Cox; a report on the production of 'Microbiology'; Dartington Hall Film Society constitution; a list of production costs for the film 'Animals on the Farm'; an article 'Documentary is Neither Short Nor Long'; and a Order of funeral service for Elise Scroggs (1968). |