This article publishes some previously missed evidence from 1940 -1941 about the differing wartime perspectives of the BBFC (the British Board of Film Censors) and the MOI (the Ministry of Information) on a prospective film of Love on the Dole, which the censors had delayed since 1936. The story is more complicated than previous accounts… Continue reading New Article: ‘Such a Film Might Come within the Ambit of Security Censorship’: – New Evidence about the Wartime Censorship of Love on the Dole (1940-1941)*
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New Article: Five Producers, Four Directors and Two Stars in Search of a Picture: the Tantalising Project of Love on the Dole as Film (1935-1941)*
Greenwood was very keen for Love on the Dole to appear in a film version after the success of his novel in 1933 and the play adaptation (co-written with Ronald Gow) in 1935. However, the BBFC (British Board of Film Censors) blocked production of a film three times - in 1935, 1936 and 1940 -… Continue reading New Article: Five Producers, Four Directors and Two Stars in Search of a Picture: the Tantalising Project of Love on the Dole as Film (1935-1941)*
