{{Short description|British film production company (formed 1968)}} {{Distinguish|GoodTimes Entertainment}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{notability|Companies|date=May 2019}} '''Goodtimes Enterprises''' was a British film production company, run by David Puttnam and Sanford Lieberson.<ref>Sue Harper and Justin Smith, [https://books.google.com/books?id=oZVvAAAAQBAJ&dq=%22goodtimes+enterprises%22&pg=PA120 ''British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure''], Edinburgh University Press, 2012, pp. 120–122.</ref> Their films include ''Performance'', ''Melody'', ''That'll Be The Day'', ''Stardust'', ''Mahler'', ''Lisztomania'' and ''Bugsy Malone''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170722112533/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9430a26e Goodtimes Enterprises] at BFI Film Forever.</ref> The company was formed by Lieberson in 1968 with ''Performance'', and Puttnam joined the company as a partner in 1970. They also owned a small independent British film distribution company called '''Visual Programme Systems''', (or '''VPS'''),<ref>[http://scripteast.pl/sandy-lieberson-2/ "Sandy Lieberson"], Scripteast.</ref> which would sometimes produce and release documentaries such as ''Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?''<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170721072256/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6995b054 "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)"] at BFI Film Forever (archived 21 July 2017).</ref>
==Selected filmography== *''Performance'' (1970) *''Melody'' (1971) *''Dougal and the Blue Cat'' (1972) *''Bringing It All Back Home'' (1972) *''The Pied Piper'' (1972) *''That'll Be the Day'' (1973) *''The Final Programme'' (1973) *''Mahler'' (1974) *''Stardust'' (1974) *''Slade in Flame'' (1975) *''Lisztomania'' (1975) *''Bugsy Malone'' (1976)
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==Further reading== * Sian Barber, ''The British Film Industry in the 1970s: Capital, Culture and Creativity'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
== External links == * [https://www.tvcream.co.uk/films/independent-producers/goodtimes-enterprises/ "Goodtimes Enterprises"], ''TV Cream'', 27 July 2009. <!--* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080523093142/http://www.scripteast.pl/4,7.html http://www.scripteast.pl/4,7.html]-->
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Category:Film production companies of the United Kingdom Category:British companies established in 1968 Category:Entertainment companies established in 1968 Category:Defunct film and television production companies of the United Kingdom Category:Year of disestablishment missing
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