Rotha, Paul, 1907-1984
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Name (Latin)
Rotha, Paul, 1907-1984
Name (Arabic)
روثا، بول، 1907-1984
Other forms of name
Rotha, Paul, 1907-
Date of birth
1907-06-03
Date of death
1984-03-07
Place of birth
London (England)
Place of death
Wallingford (England)
Associated country
Great Britain
England
Occupation
Producers and directors
Motion picture producers and directors
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- His The film till now, 1930.
- A Paul Rotha reader, c1999:p. 4 (b. Paul Treeve Fawcett Thompson, Wealdstone, England, June 3, 1907; d. Mar. 7, 1984)
- Rotha, Paul; director, editor, producer; born London, 3 June, 1907; told by his professor that he would never succeed with his birth name, Paul Thompson, he changed his name to Paul Rotha; in 1935 Rotha became Director of Productions at the independent documentary unit Strand Films; in 1941 formed Paul Rotha Productions, producing the cinemagazine Worker and War Front as well as numerous films for the civilian war effort and Britain's post-war reconstruction; between 1953 and 1955, Rotha was Head of the BBC Documentary Department; a lifelong socialist; died Wallingford, Oxfordshire, 7 March, 1984 ( (BFI screenonline WWW site, 7 May, 2015) )
- AG. LCN 2017
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Prosper Dekeukeleire, Kees Brusse, Paul Rotha, Jan Blaaser 1962
Jack de Nijs for Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl
Wikipedia description:
Paul Rotha (3 June 1907 – 7 March 1984) was an English documentary film-maker, film historian and critic.
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