1. John Grierson, ‘The Course of Realism’, in Charles Davy (ed.), Footnotes to the Film (London, 1937), p.153.
2. A. J. P. Taylor, English History 1914–1945 (Oxford, 1965), p.313.
3. Simon Rowson, ‘A Statistical Survey of the Cinema Industry in Great Britain in 1934’, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 99 (1936), pp.67–129.
4. Paul Rotha, with Richard Griffith, The Film Till Now: A Survey of World Cinema (London, rev. edn 1967 [1930]), pp. 313, 316.
5. BBFC Annual Report (London, 1937). On the operation and policies of the BBFC, see Nicholas Pronay, ‘The First Reality: Film Censorship in Liberal England’, in K. R. M. Short (ed.), Feature Films as History (London, 1981), pp.113–37;