William Frederick Jury

Sir William Frederick Jury (December 5, 1870 - August 2, 1944) was an influential film businessman in Britain. He led Jury Imperial Pictures, a British film production company during the silent film era.[1] The company was a leading renter of films and contracted to distribute official British films.[2] It was also a distributor of American films and was active in British colonies. Jury was also involved in distributing propaganda films for the British government. In 1914, he corresponded with William N. Selig.[3]

Jury distributed a film about the Battle of the Somme and a sequel about the Battle of the Ancre for the British government. Jury's film company was the exclusive distributor in Britain for American film production company Metro Pictures.[4]

Jury was awarded a knighthood in 1918.[5] He established a convalescent home for film industry veterans.[6] Jury owned the New Theatre in Bromley for a time.[7]

Filmography

References
  1. "Jury's Imperial Pictures". BFI.
  2. Harris, Ed (November 15, 2012). Britain's Forgotten Film Factory: The Story of Isleworth Studios. Amberley Publishing Limited. ISBN 9781445611877 – via Google Books.
  3. Burrows, Jon (26 November 2017). The British Cinema Boom, 1909–1914: A Commercial History. ISBN 9781137396778.
  4. "Motion Picture Daily: Formerly Exhibitors Daily Review and Motion Pictures Today". 1921.
  5. "Whitaker's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage for the Year ..." November 3, 1925 – via Google Books.
  7. "New Theatre in Bromley, GB - Cinema Treasures". cinematreasures.org. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  8. Haggith, Toby (2002). "Reconstructing the Musical Arrangement for "The Battle of the Somme" (1916)". Film History. 14 (1): 11–24. doi:10.2979/FIL.2002.14.1.11. JSTOR 3815576.
  9. "The Battle of the Ancre and the Advance of the Tanks (1917)". BFI. Archived from the original on October 20, 2019.
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