Greenpark Productions Ltd is a British

documentary film A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...

production company, founded by

Walter Greenwood Walter Greenwood (17 December 1903 – 13 September 1974) was an English novelist, best known for the socially influential novel '' Love on the Dole'' (1933). Early life Greenwood was born at 56 Ellor Street, his father's house and hairdr ...

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, Cornwall in 1938. The company relocated to London in 1939. After the war it expanded into making upmarket corporate films. Amongst its roster of directors were

Ken Annakin Kenneth Cooper Annakin, OBE (10 August 1914 – 22 April 2009) was an English film director. His career spanned half a century, beginning in the early 1940s and ending in 1992, and in the 1960s he was noticed by critics with large-scale advent ...

Ralph Keene Ralph Keene (1902–1963) was an Indian-born British screenwriter, film producer, producer and film director. He is generally known for his work on documentaries. Following the Second World War he shot a number of non-fiction films outside Brita ...

and Humphrey Swingler, brother of the poet

Randall Swingler Randall Carline Swingler MM (28 May 1909 – 19 June 1967) was an English poet, writing extensively in the 1930s in the communist interest. Early life and education His was a prosperous upper middle class Anglican family in Aldershot, with an ...

. Greenpark Productions was a founding member of the Film Producers Guild, which set new standards for UK

production. The company, together with its film archive, was acquired in 1977 by David Morphet, an award-winning documentary film producer. Greenpark Productions Ltd is still in business as a film archive, based in Cornwall. (www.greenparkimages.co.uk)

Filmography

This filmography below is a list of films produced or co-produced by Greenpark Productions.Adapted from Chris Hopkins, ''Walter Greenwood's Love on the Dole: Novel, Play, Film'', Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2018, p. 285-6

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