"A friend to every exhibitor": National Screen Service and the British trailer industry

Johnston, Keith M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1989-8549 (2017) "A friend to every exhibitor": National Screen Service and the British trailer industry. In: The Routledge Companion to British Cinema History. Routledge, pp. 311-329. ISBN 9780415706193

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Abstract

National Screen Service (NSS) can be regarded as Britain’s lost film studio, a film producer and distributor that monopolised the British ‘coming attraction’ trailer industry for decades. Reclaiming it from the tag of ‘service industry’, the chapter argues that while NSS may now be as historically ephemeral as the film trailers it produced, it was in fact a vibrant and vital part of the British film industry between the mid-1920s and the 1980s. Utilising primary documents, audio-visual sources and new interview material, the chapter reconstructs this lost giant of the British industry.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	film trailers,british cinema,exhibition,film history,film distribution
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > British Cinema & Television Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Film, Television and Media
Related URLs:	https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-...
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	24 Sep 2016 01:02
Last Modified:	21 Jul 2023 10:38
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/60386
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