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Manchester Film Society

Year Founded:

1927

Location:

Manchester, UK

Film Formats:

8mm, 16mm, 35mm

Associated Filmmakers/People:

Ruth Stuart Rodger

Peter Le Neve Foster

Ruth Le Neve Foster

Judith Todd

Resources:

"What is believed to be the first organized visit of a group of amateur movie makers to Soviet Russia will be made this summer by a party of Manchester Film Society members under the leadership of Peter A. LeNeve Foster, ACL. Special arrangements are being made to visit studios in Moscow and theatres in Leningrad, and a detailed movie record will be made of the trip." (Moore 345)

Selected references:

Gale, Arthur L. "Amateur Clubs," Movie Makers 3, no. 11 (1928): 716:717.

Gale, Arthur L. "The tools of their art," Movie Makers 4, no. 1 (1929): 853, 889:896.

Gale, Arthur L. "Amateur Clubs," Movie Makers 4, no. 3 (1929): 158:159, 190-193.

Gale, Arthur L. "Amateur Clubs," Movie Makers 4, no. 5 (1929): 300:301, 339:345.

Gale, Arthur L. "Amateur Clubs," Movie Makers 4, no. 7 (1929): 446:447, 471:474.

Gale, Arthur L. "Amateur Clubs," Movie Makers 4, no. 11 (1929): 716:717, 745:748.

Gale, Arthur L. "Amateur Clubs," Movie Makers 5, no. 5 (1930): 285, 308:312.

Gale, Arthur L. "Amateur Clubs," Movie Makers 6, no. 3 (1931): 143, 165:168.

Moore, James W. "Amateur Clubs," Movie Makers 7, no. 11 (1932): 481, 500:501.

Moore, James W. "Amateur Clubs," Movie Makers 8, no. 7 (1933): 328, 344:345.

Frequent references thereafter.

Associated Films:

Wizard of Alderley Edge, The

 

Death Ray, The

 

Watchdogs of Wilmslow

 

Odds and Ends

 

Five Pound Night, The

 

Black Bear, The

 

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