British National Films Company - Lady Yule

Lady Yule

A young producer named John Corefield introduced J. Arthur Rank to Lady Annie Henrietta Yule of Bricket Wood, who was both extremely wealthy and extremely bored with life. In order to fill her life with activity she engaged in big game hunting and breeding Arabian horses with a degree of success and lasting fame. Upon meeting J. Arthur Rank she decided to add the making of films to her list. However, when it came to the business side of film production, Lady Yule did not share the same ideas as J. Arthur Rank with regards to the making and distributing films to improve society, because she did not believe in giving discounts to religiously motivated film productions. She thought that films were an interesting hobby and similar to her financial interests in Arabian horse reeding.