File. Exhibitions and Films

Records of the Head Office of the Mission to Seafarers (formerly known as the Missions to Seamen) > Executive Officers' Subject Files > File. Exhibitions and Films

Reference No:: U DMS/4/67
Dates:: 1 Apr 1942-10 Jun 1970
Description:: File containing extracts from minutes of meetings relating to exhibitions and films produced the Missions to Seamen, or with which the society was involved. Includes references to: Stoke Newington Warships Week 1942; Joint Anglican Missionary Exhibitions 1944; Christian Exhibition Lambeth Conference 1945; consideration of a publicity film promoting the work of the Missions to Seamen 1947; 3 portable exhibitions authorised 1947; Essex Agricultural Show 1948; appointment of Mr W.L. McConnell-Wood as Exhibition Secretary 1948; authorisation to prepare a film script 1948 and showing of the film in 1950; purchase of a film projector 1950; Missionary Markets 1950 and 1951; projectors purchased for Eastern Region, Head Office, Metropolitan District, East Central District, Northern District, Newcastle and North Durham 1950; 'With One Voice' exhibition 1952; former Hamburg van to be overhauled and given to the Exhibition Department 1951; newspaper advertising 1952; bank account access for the Exhibition Secretary 1953; film 'John Ashley' and its purchase by LCC for showing in schools 1953; editorship of 'The Church and Sailor' 1954; bazaar held 14 Oct 1954 at Caxton Hall, Westminster; future of 'The Church and Sailor' 1956-1957; cost of advertising for 1957 £2325; 'The Church and Sailor' retitled 'Flying Angel' 1957; new film authorised 1958; new colour film to be produced in 1960 'Bonds of Fellowship'; Flying Angel Fair 1960; Chinese film 'East Sixteen' to be shot 1959; film 'Sea Parish' shown on TV and distributed commercially in Australia 1959; exhibitions in Bristol Cathedral and Canterbury Cathedral in 1960, as well as exhibitions in St Martin in the Fields, and participation in over 25 others; breakdown of circulation of 'Flying Angel' 1960; new film to be shot on board the 'Calabar', in Dockland, Tilbury and Lagos, 1960; commentary track being recorded for new film 'Coast to Coast' 1961; film strip dealing with the society's work on the Thames 1961; Joint Missionary Exhibition Committee 1962; bookings for 'Coast to Coast' film in 1963; Rotterdam film authorised in 1963; new film, 'The Mission on the Maas', to be screened at the Shell Private Cinema 13 Jul 1966; new films for Industry and Gravesend proposed 1968; Westminster Abbey exhibition Apr 1970.
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Collection:: Records of the Head Office of the Mission to Seafarers (formerly known as the Missions to Seamen)