Leaflets from Gaumont British Equipment Ltd, promoting up and coming films, 1938-9
These leaflets advertise new films available for hire for private exhibition - an 11 minute reel featuring the popular comedian Will Hay ("with a guaranteed laugh in every ten seconds"); 'Chamberlain the Peacemaker', a 15 minute film about the Munich agreement with Hitler ("the arduous and anxious negotiations that finally culminated in peace instead of war"); a series of new Mickey Mouse cartoons; and a cinematic 'News Review of 1937', featuring events such as the coronation of George VI and the Hindenburg disaster.
Included in Trades Union Congress archive files on 'Cinematograph Industry: Hire of Films & Equipment', 1928-1941, document reference: MSS.292/675.5/3, and 'Films: Hire of Gaumont British Equipment Ltd', 1934-1940, document reference: MSS.292/675.63/1