Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Dinah Shurey (1888 - 1963) was a British film producer and director of the late 1920s.Founder of Britannia Films and her own distribution company Showman Films, Shurey was the only female British film director of her day.In 1930, Shurey sued Film Weekly magazine for its hostile treatment of her film The Last Post and the assertion by the magazine's columnist Nerina Shute that women were incapable of directing films. Shurey won the case but by 1934 she was bankrupt.No prints of The Last Post are known to survive and the film is one of the top ten films on the British Film Institute's most wanted list of lost British films.Paul Rotha compared Shurey to Harry Bruce Woolfe, calling her "an upstanding Empire loyalist" who "had made some quite atrocious films".. }
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- Dinah_Shurey abstract "Dinah Shurey (1888 - 1963) was a British film producer and director of the late 1920s.Founder of Britannia Films and her own distribution company Showman Films, Shurey was the only female British film director of her day.In 1930, Shurey sued Film Weekly magazine for its hostile treatment of her film The Last Post and the assertion by the magazine's columnist Nerina Shute that women were incapable of directing films. Shurey won the case but by 1934 she was bankrupt.No prints of The Last Post are known to survive and the film is one of the top ten films on the British Film Institute's most wanted list of lost British films.Paul Rotha compared Shurey to Harry Bruce Woolfe, calling her "an upstanding Empire loyalist" who "had made some quite atrocious films".".