BUCHAN

Adrian Brunel was highly regarded, especially in the Silent Era, for his innovation and wit (often revealed in the 'intertitles'). Two of his 'lost' films are on the British Film Institute's 'most wanted' list. In the early thirties, owing to a dispute with Gainsborough, he had become virtually unemployable, but wrote a valuable book on film making. Now he was beginning to break back into 'talkies'. Buchan had been active in the foundation of the British Film Institute. The first of his novels to be filmed was Huntingtower, in 1925. The present letter suggests Brunel had such a project in mind.