Word: rotha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the auspices of the Harvard Film Society, Paul Rotha, English producer, will speak tonight on the documentary film in the New Lecture Hall. The talk will be accompanied by several of his own sound shorts...
...Rotha is one of the founders of the documentary film, a movie based on the dramatization of facts similar to the "March of Time." The three films which are to be shown are, "Today We Live," "We Live in Two Worlds," and one concerning the handling of the night mail between England and Scotland...
...York University, now in its first year; 3) Columbia's new studies in "History, Aesthetic and Technique of the Motion Pictures." Most searching of these was Columbia's, listed in the University catalog as "Fine Arts em1-em2," conducted by Film Librarians Abbott & Barry with Paul Rotha, British documentarian, and invited technicians. Also most compact, it started off last week with 38 selected students...
Died. Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rotha-felf 53, Manhattan showman who, starting as a nickelodeon operator 28 years ago, introduced superspectacle stage shows to U. S. cinema theatres, carried cinemansion magnificence to fabulous Byzantine heights in his own theatre, The Roxy; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1934 he lost his job as manager of Rockefeller Center's theatres...