Thomas Brandon (film distributor)

Tom Brandon (1910-1982) was a founding member of the Workers Film and Photo League. He later became a film distributor and was the owner/founder of Audio Brandon and Brandon Films. He was the first president of the New York Film Council, and helped to found the Film Forum. His work in the 1970s to reclaim and publicize the history of 1930s film activism is an important source for film historians. Brandon's unpublished manuscripts and documents on radical film history are deposited at the New York Museum of Modern Art Film Study Center. His film collection was donated to the U.S. Library of Congress in association with the American Film Institute.

References

• Pioneers: An Interview with Tom Brandon, Fred Sweet, Eugene Rosow, Allan Francovich and Tom Brandon, Film Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Autumn, 1973), pp. 12-24
• Steven J. Ross, Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America
• MoMA Film Study Center

• Labor Related Films in the Library of Congress Collection