Garga, Homi Sethna and Paul Zils, and featured short invited pieces by John Grierson, James Beveridge and
Paul Rotha. It included an editorial by Mulk Raj Anand who also wrote for Indian Documentary.
Politically committed but with little technical knowledge, filmmakers such as
Paul Rotha relied on Suschitzky's photographic expertise.
One was
Paul Rotha and Phipps will be showing extracts of his 1935 Face of Britain, ostensibly a documentary about the new expanding national electricity grid but in reality, a feature about the "horror" of East Durham.
One was
Paul Rotha and the audience will see clips of 1935 Face of Britain which was meant to document the newly-expanding national electricity grid but mainly featured the desperately poor East Durham mining community.
Rukeyser was sent there in 1958 by
Paul Rotha, an American documentary producer, as part of a research project.
Only two years later, the narrator of
Paul Rotha's (1907-84) Central Electricity Board-funded documentary The Face of Britain hymns 'the Pylons' as they 'carry their living load over mountains, fields, and rivers, never checking in their stride ...
London, United Kingdom, August 30, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Cinematographer Wolfgang Suschitzky was born on 29 August 1912 and is widely known as the director of photography on Get Carter, the British crime classic starring Michael Caine, as well as for his collaboration with documentary film-maker
Paul Rotha. He worked with Rotha as the cameraman on several important documentaries and films including No Resting Place and The World Is Rich.
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Paul Rotha, Documentary Film (New York, 1939), pp.
In the late 1920s,
Paul Rotha observed how Russian directors were able to create appropriate rhythms for different situations by cutting between different perspectives, angles, and distances.
Much critical work on documentary--and the above books stand out--has relied on negotiating between established notions of the form as social practice (stemming in particular from the legacies of John Grierson and
Paul Rotha) and transformations of the documentary idea as it interacts with its 'publics' and the changing public sphere.
Geoff Gehman's Down but Not Out in Hollow-weird: A Documentary in Letters of Eric Knight (Scarecrow Press, 1998) includes several letters to filmmaker and critic
Paul Rotha. In one dated 11 March 1935 (just three days after the publication of Of Time and the River), Knight--author of Lassie Come-Home and The Flying Yorkshireman--writes: "Incidentally, we have a real writer growing up here in America.