Advance Film Productions

[Harold Pelham]

While doing some research in Halliwell's film guide I found a reference to a 1950's studio called 'Advance'. Does anyone know anything about the studio and its output?

[Steve Crook]

(Harold Pelham @ Oct 12 2005, 10:22 AM)

While doing some research in Halliwell's film guide I found a reference to a 1950's studio called 'Advance'. Does anyone know anything about the studio and its output?

Are you sure it's a studio? Or is it a production company?

Advance Productions was the production company for that film The Happiness of Three Women (1954) that you were asking about.



Steve

[Harold Pelham]

Thanks Steve. Presumably Advance owned the rights. Do you know if they had much of a catalogue and who now controls it? Maybe Canal-Plus or Network? As you can gather, I am trying to track down the owners and a print of "The Happiness Of Three Women".

[Steve Crook]

(Harold Pelham @ Oct 12 2005, 01:23 PM)

Thanks Steve. Presumably Advance owned the rights. Do you know if they had much of a catalogue and who now controls it? Maybe Canal-Plus or Network? As you can gather, I am trying to track down the owners and a print of "The Happiness Of Three Women".

Canal+ and Granada have most of the British back catalogue between them.



There was another thread about Who Owns the Rights? where JamesM gave a very useful link to a BFI web page that shows how a lot of the rights to these films has changed over the years.



Steve