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Paul Rotha (3 June 1907 – 7 March 1984) was an English documentary film-maker, film historian and critic.
He was born Paul Thompson in London, and educated at Highgate School and at the Slade School of Fine Art.
Rotha was a close collaborator of John Grierson, and Wolfgang Suschitzky was one of his cinematographers. He directed and produced dozens of documentaries including Contact (1933), Air Outpost (1937) The Face of Britain (1935), World of Plenty (1943), Land of Promise (1947), A City Speaks (1947) and many others. The World Is Rich (1947) and Cradle of Genius (1961), both of which were nominated for an Academy Award, and feature films including the BAFTA-nominated No Resting Place. Rotha was Head of BBC TV's Documentaries Department between May 1953 and May 1955.
Rotha shared with Otto Neurath an interest in the techniques of visual communication, and the two men worked together on several films, where Neurath's ISOTYPE pictorial statistics were animated as an important component of the films' arguments. He was initially a major opponent of sound in movies, although he later developed the technique of multi-voice commentary, in which the argument of the film is conveyed via discussion between several distinct voices, a distinctive form of documentary exposition. Films using this technique include New Worlds for Old (1938), World of Plenty (1943), The World is Rich (1947) and Land of Promise (1946).
Rotha wrote, produced and directed the 1958 crime drama Cat & Mouse, based on a novel by John Creasey and starring Lee Patterson and Ann Sears.
Most Popular Paul Rotha Trailers
Total trailers found: 27
31 December 1935
Documentary about the building of ships at Barrow-in-Furness.
02 January 1942
World War II propaganda film that shows the war-time agricultural work of women from the Women's Institute.
01 January 1947
Urban utopia beckons in this idealistic vision of postwar Manchester - fascinating to revisit as Northern Powerhouses and city devolution return to the agenda.
02 January 1942
Documentary short depicting night workers in an armament factory making tank components for the war effort, the commentary largely being supplied by the workers themselves.
02 January 1946
Described as a 'film argument' about homes and houses, this film is in three parts showing houses as they were, houses as they are and houses as they might be.
01 August 1958
A GI deserter frames a girl for killing a blackmailer, and holds her captive while seeking gems.
08 April 1944
Documentary on the young builders who'll rebuild Britain after the war.
07 November 1940
This one-reel film was produced during the middle of the Second World War. It purports to offer a portrait of the British people, in broad and in fine.
23 January 1937
Sharjah airport in the 1930's showing the airport, town, Emirate and Imperial Airways staff. An early British documentary produced by many pioneers of the medium.
01 January 1941
Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.
02 January 1947
A documentary about how trading goods with the rest of the world works to help the UK economy after WWII.
01 January 1937
Two case studies highlighting the work of the National Council of Social Service: the conversion of a barn into a village hall in South Cerney, Gloucestershire, and the building of an occupational centre in the depressed mining village of Pentre in the Rhondda Valley, Wales.
02 January 1941
Childcare for working women during the Second World War.
12 January 1951
The brilliant British documentary filmmaker Paul Rotha made his feature-film debut with 1950's No Resting Place.
02 January 1935
Directed by Paul Rotha.
17 November 1943
An opening narration explaining that the film's purpose is to examine the "world strategy of food", in terms of its production, distribution and consumption.
21 December 1962
In 1944 Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, a band of Dutch resistance fighters plot to covertly rescue dozens of compatriots from the local Nazi prison.
01 January 1933
Documentary film promoting Imperial Airways, focusing on the many stages involved in air travel, with the majority of scenes featuring aerial shots from an aeroplane.
01 September 1961
Carefully chronicling in great detail the early years of Hitler's political life until his fall as the leader of Germany, this archive-footage documentary offers a sharply critical insight into the stealthy rise of the Nazi party and how it's racist vision of the world slowly took hold in a disillusioned Germany.
01 August 1936
Short campaigning documentary putting the case for "peace by reason" rather than through re-arming.
02 January 1946
A look at how science is keeping British industry as high-tech and innovative as anywhere else in the world.
11 November 1960
Longtime playwrights and performers of the Abbey Theatre share colourful reminiscences of the national institution founded by W.
01 January 1953
UNESCO-funded "one world" documentary by Paul Rotha and Basil Wright.
03 October 1946
The World Is Rich is a 1947 British documentary film directed by Paul Rotha about food shortages after World War II, outlining steps underway to deal with the problems.
01 January 1945
Dunkirk to D-Day in 20 minutes flat: this gripping account of Britain's war effort compels us to sit up and pay attention.
18 September 1931
Propaganda - advertising. Animated titles spelling out the message - "Australian wines:- In the sunlit vineyards of Australia grow luscious grapes for wines, pressed and bottled into sweet, dry, or sparkling vintages.
11 September 1936
The film sequences were represented by the premiere of the now thought lost short 'Cover To Cover' directed by Paul Rotha.
