Butcher's Film Service was a Britishfilm production anddistribution company that specialised in low-budget productions. The company was founded by William Butcher, a chemist fromBlackheath. The company survived through several production slumps in the British film industry and two World Wars.
In later years the company mainly released films made at theNettlefold Studios inWalton-upon-Thames in Surrey. Amongst the films produced after theSecond World War was a series of fourPaul Temple films andThe Story of Shirley Yorke which proved to be a surprise hit.[1] The company attempted to give its films a patriotic and populist appeal, and were particularly aimed at working-class audiences inindustrial areas. In 1954 it was renamedButcher's Film Distributors.[2]
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