J. Arthur Rank

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  The Rank Organisation was created by J. Arthur Rank in 1937 to consolidate all of his interests in t

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  The Holderness Road lodge was demolished in the mid 1880s and part of the Holderness House grounds was sold for the building of Jalland Street, some shops and Chestnut Villas (now 365-371 Holderness Road), where Joseph Rank and Alfred Gelder occupied opposite ends of the block at the time of the 1891 census.
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  They were the miller, Joseph Rank, his wife and her sister, six children, a school governess, a sick nurse, a nursemaid and a servant.Some of them were there as Mrs. Rank had given birth to a baby a month earlier.The two-year old child, Joseph A. Rank, became famous later in life as J. Arthur Rank, the film magnate and head of the Rank Organisation, eventually becoming Lord Rank.

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  In 1933, J. Arthur Rank, who had started by making religious films, founded British National.In 1935 He went into partnership with C.M.Woolf to take over Pinewood Studios.At the same time Oscar Deutsch was building up the Odeon chain of cinemas, Rank joined the board in 1939.

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  J. ARTHUR RANK
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  Joseph Arthur Rank, Baron Rank of Sutton Scotney (December 23 1888-March 29 1972), British industrialist and film producer, was born in Kingston upon Hull in England.Rank built his fortunes on the already substantial family flour-milling business (now Rank Hovis McDougal) which he inherited.
  
  Rank was a Methodist and his interest film began when he became involved in showing religious films Sunday school children at his local church.In 1933 he founded the British National (film) film company in order to distribute religious films.In 1935 he went into partnership with Charles Boot and Charles M. Woolf to build Pinewood Studios in Oxfordshire.In the same year he founded General Film Distributors (the UK distributor for Universal Pictures).In 1939 he joined the board of the Odeon cinema chain and founded the Rank Organisation in 1946, which became the dominant force in British film production.
  
  In 1953 Rank set up the J. Arthur Rank Group Charity, now The Rank Foundation, to promote Christian belief.
  
  He was given a peerage in 1957 and created a Baron Rank of Sutton Scotney in Hampshire.
  
  From the late 1950s the Rank Organisation began to diversify its interests into fields other than film.Rationalisation of the group (which had now been renamed Rank Group) in the 1990s led to the sale of Pinewood Studios and Odeon as well as the holidays businesses (including Butlins, Warner and Haven), engineering companies and anything else not deemed strictly core.By 2003, the Rank Group consisted only of casino and bingo gaming businesses, Deluxe film video and DVD processing and the Hard Rock Cafe.
  
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  Later on, London Films was eclipse by the Rank Organization founded by J. Arthur Rank By the end of the of the 1930's due to rising costs and over optimistic expansions into the American market Britain's Film Industry began to waiver, of 640 British production companies between 1925 and 1936 that were in business only 20 were still running in 1937.

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  As with the fundraising for Westminster Central Hall ordinary people pledged money but the project was greatly aided by the generosity of a wealthy businessman, Joseph Rank, father of J. Arthur Rank, the founder of the Rank Organisation.
  
  The building was opened to the public on February 18th, 1925.

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  Thank you J. Arthur Rank.
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  J. Arthur Rank was a British industrialist, film producer, and founder of the Rank Organisation - Its opening film credits contained a man hitting a large gong.

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  -> J. Arthur Rank, then-chairman of the British food company Rank -> Hovis McDougall, set his scientists on the project--focusing on
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  -> Rank's project survived long enough to hook onto the growing -> health movement. In 1985, after reviewing animal and human safety

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  In 1933 J. Arthur Rank, who had started by making religious films, founded British National.In 1935 he went into partnership with Woolf to take over Pinewood Studios.

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