Elstree Group

The Elstree Group was a name given to a financing scheme that operated for British films made by Associated British Pictures Corporation in the early 1950s. Associated British would make movies with part of the fiance being provided by the National Film Finance Corporation.{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/Sight_and_Sound_1977_07_BFI_GB/page/n43/mode/1up?|magazine=Sight and Sound|title=Subsidy for the Screen Grierson and Group 3|first=Richard Dyer|last=MacCann|pages=168–173|date=July 1977}}

It was one of three such schemes that operated around this time, the others being British Film-Makers (which operated through the Rank Organisation) and Group 3 Films.{{Cite magazine|title=National Film Finance Corporation|magazine=Sight and Sound|url=https://archive.org/details/Sight_and_Sound_1952_01_BFI_GB/page/n14/mode/1up?|date=January–March 1952|page=14}} The Elstree Group was the least prolific, making five films in all. What films were made had to be approved by Robert Clark of Associated British and James Lawrie of the NFFC.{{cite book|page=261|url=https://archive.org/details/britishfilmindus0000vari/page/261/mode/1up?|year=1952|title=The British film industry|publisher=Political and Economic Planning}}{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|url=https://archive.org/details/variety181-1951-01/page/11/mode/1up?|date=31 January 1951|page=11|title=NFFC Prod Scheme seen as solving many of England's filmmaking woes}}

ABPC, unlike Rank, refused to establish a separate holding and management company for the NFFC-financed films. {{cite book |page=77 |title= British cinema of the 1950s : the decline of deference|last1=Harper |first1=Sue |last2=Porter |first2=Vincent |year=2003 |publisher=Oxford University Press }}