E.E. Blake

Ernest Edgar Blake (1879–1961) was a pioneering exhibitor of motion pictures, Chairman of Kodak UK and responsible for all Kodak cine film sales in Britain, Europe and most of the British Empire for over twenty years.

Early life Blake was born in Bedford in 1879, the son of William Blake who had moved to Bedford to manage a photographic business, and Annie Blake, a talented photographer.

The Blake brothers were founder members of the Cinema Veterans’ Association in 1924 and both were later presidents. Blake played a prominent part in the Kinematograph Manufacturers' Association and the British Kinematograph Society and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. He later became a member of the Cinema Consultative Committee. His funeral was attended by Lord Morrison of Lambeth, then chairman of the British Board of Film Censors, and many others from the worlds of photography, cinematography and sport.