Paul Rotha (born Paul Thompson, June 3, 1907, London - March 7, 1984, Wallingford, Oxfordshire) was a British film-maker, film historian and critic. Events 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Year 1907 ( MCMVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Events 161 - Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar) Wallingford is a small Market town and Civil parish in the upper Thames Valley in Oxfordshire, England. History See also History of Oxfordshire The county of Oxfordshire was formed in the early years of the 10th century and is broadly situated in the The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located He was educated at Highgate School. Sir Roger Cholmeley's School at Highgate (Highgate School is a British Independent School in London England He was a close collaborator of John Grierson. John Grierson ( 26 April 1898 &ndash 19 February 1972) is often considered the Father of British and Canadian Wolfgang Suschitzky was one of his cinematographers.
References
- The Film Till Now: A Survey of the Cinema (London: Jonathan Cape, 1930)
- 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, revised and enlarged edition, (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. Jonathan Cape was a British Publisher founded in 1919 as Jonathan Page and Company; the name was changed in 1921 and it took over the back list of Faber and Faber, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the UK, notable in particular for publishing Eric Knight ( April 10, 1897 - January 15, 1943) was an author who is mainly notable Selected correspondence (London: Chapman and Hall, 1952)
- Rotha on the Film; a Selection of Writings About the Cinema (Fair Lawn, NJ:. 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; 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)
See also
External links
- Bfi screenonline entry
- Paul Rotha at the Internet Movie Database
- Paul Rotha's papers at The University of California
- Paul Rotha and Japanese documentary