The Film Producers Guild was a collective of documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 companies in England. It was formed in August 1944 and had offices and screening facilities on Upper St. Martin's Lane, in London. They owned Merton Park Studios

Merton Park Studios

Merton Park Studios was a British film production studio in South Wimbledon, London. In the 1940s, it was owned by the Film Producers Guild.Opened in 1930, many second features were produced there, and for a time was home to Radio Luxembourg...

 in south London.

Guild producers, directors, writers, cameramen and film editors were part of the British post-war Documentary Film Movement

Documentary Film Movement

The Documentary Film Movement is the name given to the group of British film-makers, led by John Grierson, who were influential in British film culture in the 1930s and 1940s.-Principles:...

. Peter Morley

Peter Morley (filmmaker)

Peter Morley, OBE is a German-born British television producer and documentary filmmaker. As a nine-year old child, he fled Nazi Germany with his elder siblings and moved to England, where he has lived ever since...

 got his first job in the industry working as a projectionist at the Guild's screening room and met people like Humphrey Jennings

Humphrey Jennings

Frank Humphrey Sinkler Jennings was an English documentary filmmaker and one of the founders of the Mass Observation organization...

, John Grierson

John Grierson

John Grierson was a pioneering Scottish documentary maker, often considered the father of British and Canadian documentary film. According to popular myth, in 1926, Grierson coined the term "documentary" to describe a non-fiction film.-Early life:Grierson was born in Deanston, near Doune, Scotland...

, Jill Craigie

Jill Craigie

Jill Craigie was an English documentary film director, screenwriter and feminist. She was the wife of the Labour Party politician Michael Foot , whom she met during the making of her film The Way We Live....

 and Paul Rotha

Paul Rotha

Paul Rotha was a British documentary film-maker, film historian and critic. He was educated at Highgate School....

.

See also

• List of film distributors in the United Kingdom

External links

• Film Producers Guild Worldcat.org