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Elite Sales Agency Ltd

Primary Address
1 Shaftsbury Avenue, Gloucester Mansions
Westminster
W

Additional Addresses
Cambridge Circus
Gloucester Mansions
Westminster
WC
from October 1912 until January 1913

99a Cahring Cross Road
Westminster
WC
from January 1913 until November 1913

256 Belsize Road
Kilburn
Hampstead
NW
from November 1913

Business Detail
Category: Film Services
Type: Sales Agent
Capital: £2,000 (8000 5s shares)
Notes: Sales Agent for Continental, Duskes, Skandinavisk, Eiko, Elite, BB (1912)

Notes
Sold the UK rights to the Continental Kunstfilm The Miracle (aka Sister Beatrix) to Shaftsbury Feature Film Agency in 1913. Letter to Registrar of Joint Stock Companies dated 7th July 1914 states that company ceased trading in October 1913 "owing to the heavy losses sustained". No mention in NA file of Shaftsbury Avenue address.

Trading Information
Trading Dates: from 3 October 1912 until 21 January 1916.
End Notes: Reg 3 October 1912. Dissolved by notice in the London Gazette 21 Jan 1916.

Related Venues

None

Related People

David Walter Beck (Director)
Joseph Clozenberg (Director)
James Walter Perry

Sources/References

Bioscope Annual 1913 (p.417)
BT 31/13990/124573

We are keen to hear from anyone with additional information or corrections to be made to this data. Please send comments to i.christie@bbk.ac.uk.
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