ASHLEY, Walter.: The Cinema and the Public. , London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson Limited, 1934.

1st edition. A Critical Analysis of the Origin, Constitution and Control of the "British Film Institute". "At the time the[Cinematograph] Fund was established, there were many, both inside Parliament and outside, who were convinced that the time had come....for this vast form of entertainment - the Cinema - with its twenty million attendances every week in the British Isles, and its great and growing influence, particularly over the immature, to be in some way freed from a control which had, from its beginning, been almost exclusively commercial, and directed more in accordance with the interests of the nation as a whole."(Stanley Baldwin, M.P) Pp.44. White cloth spine with blue paper covers, original paper label to front, top edges rubbed. VG. (Book ref. 37757)  £25.00

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