Agnes Mary Field

Agnes Mary Field (1896–1968) was a film producer with a special interest in children's film.

Agnes Mary Field was born in Wimbledon, Surrey, on 24 February 1896, the second daughter of Evelyn Lucy Daniel and Ernest Field, a solicitor. She attended Surbiton High School and Bedford College, London.[1]

She gained an MA from the Institute of Historical Research with a distinction in Commonwealth history.[2]

Field joined British Instructional Films in 1926 as its education manager and went on to work for the Gaumont Film Company. In 1928 she took over from F. Percy Smith and worked on the Secrets of Nature a short black-and-white documentary film series, consisting of 144 films produced by British Instructional Films.[2] In 1944 she created and became executive producer of the Children's Film Division of J Arthur Rank.[2] She was made a CBE in 1951.[2] She worked on children's Matinées, undertook advisory work, toured the commonwealth in 1954 and was a consultant for UNESCO's Centre of Films for Children.[2]

Field was married to Gerald Hankin a ministry of education official.[2]

Publications

  • Good Company the story of the children’s entertainment movement in Great Britain 1943 - 1950 Longmans Green, 1952

References

  1. ↑ "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". oxfordindex.oup.com. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33121. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Uglow, J. (2005). The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 211. ISBN 978-1403934482.
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