Film World: A Guide to Cinima by Ivor Goldsmid Samuel Montagu (1904-1984) - 1964

327+[8 ad] pages with figures, tables and index. Duodecimo (7" x 4 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. Film critic, author and filmmaker Ivor Montagu devoted most of his life to his two passions: cinema and leftist politics. Following studies at the Royal College of Science--where he obtained a degree in zoology and botany--and studies at King's College, Cambridge, where he earned a masters in zoology, Montagu turned towards pursuing his interest in film. He and Sidney Bernstein established the London Film Society, the first film club devoted to showing art films and independent films, in 1925. In 1959 he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize, and in 1965 he published "Film World" (Penguin), one of the best looks at the situation of the international film industry in the early 1960s. Condition: Previous owner's initials on verso front wrapper, lightly soiled, spine end slightly rubbed else a very good copy.