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Profile of Paul Rotha
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3rd June 1907 |
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London, England, UK |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Paul Rotha (*June 3, 1907- March 7, 1984) was a socialist british film maker and film historian. He was a major figure of the British documentary film movement and a close collaborator of John Grierson.
Films
- Contact, 1933
- Shipyard, 1935
- The face of Britain, 1935 - working and living conditions of the working class
- Desert Outpost, 1937
- Total War in Britain, 1946
- Land of Promise, 1946
- The World Is Rich, 1947
- No Resting Place, 1950
- World without End, 1953
- Cat and Mouse, 1958
- Das Leben von Adolf Hitler - Life of Adolf Hitler, 1961
- Cradle of Genius, 1961
- De Overval - The Silent Raid, 1962 - about the dutch resistance during world war II
Writings
- The film till now, a survey of the cinema, London, J. Cape
- Documentary film, London, Faber and Faber, 1936 - The first major study on documentary film
- The film till now; a survey of world cinema, with an additional section by Richard Griffith. Rev. and enl. ed., London Vision 1949
- Portrait of a flying Yorkshireman : letters from Eric Knight in the United States to Paul Rotha in England / edited by Paul Rotha. Correspondence. Selections, London : Chapman & Hall, 1952
- Rotha on the film; a selection of writings about the cinema, Fair Lawn, N.J. Essential Books, 1958
- Documentary film; the use of the film medium to interpret creatively and in social terms the life of the people as it exists in reality, by Paul Rotha in collaboration with Sinclair Road [and] Richard Griffith.
3d ed., rev. and enl.of Documentary film, London, Faber and Faber 1952,US: New York, Hastings House 1963
- Documentary diary; an informal history of the British documentary film, 1928-1939, New York, Hill and Wang 1973
- Robert J. Flaherty, a biography, edited by Jay Ruby, Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983
- A Paul Rotha reader, edited by Duncan Petrie and Robert Kruger.
Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 1999.
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