author
M. (Maurice) Jackson-Wrigley
1886–1972
An early film writer who saw cinema as more than entertainment, he argued that moving pictures could widen access to learning and culture. His books capture a moment when film was still new and its educational promise felt wide open.
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The film : Its use in popular education
by M. (Maurice) Jackson-Wrigley
About the author
Born in 1886, Maurice Jackson-Wrigley was a British writer best known for books about cinema and its public value. Records for his 1922 book The Film: Its Use in Popular Education identify him as M. (Maurice) Jackson-Wrigley, and later library listings also credit him with The Cinema, Historical, Technical and Bibliographical (1939), written with Eric Leyland.
His work focused on film not just as entertainment but as a tool for education, libraries, and popular instruction. That makes him an interesting figure from the early decades of movie culture, when writers and educators were still working out what cinema could do for the wider public.
Some historical records also connect a Maurice Jackson Wrigley, born in 1886, with wartime service in the West Yorkshire Regiment. I could confirm the match in name and birth year, but not enough additional detail to state with confidence that every record refers to the same person. He died in 1972.