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of Walturdaw, and its successor The Cinema Supply Company, until the 1930s. He was chairman of the Kinematograph Renter’s Society and the Kinematograph Manufacturer’s Association, and president of the Cinema Veterans Society. He died in 1962.
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E.G. Turner and J.D. Walker, founders of the first film company in Britain to rent films, formed their partnership in 1896 when (based in London) they toured the country with Edison Kinetoscopes and Phonographs.
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The Cinema Supply Company continued to operate until the early 1950s when it was restructured. E.G. Turner continued as managing director until the 1930s.
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He was born in 1872 and began showing films in 1896. Below is a quote from Turner's writing for Kinematograph Weekly, a publication he wrote for in 1926:
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who operated the first company in Britain to rent films and he invented one of the earliest sound synchronization systems.
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with George Harry John Dawson and John Dewhurst Walker. A number of these films were made in a studio in
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