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Harry Bruce Woolfe

Harry Bruce Woolfe

English film producer and director

Harry Bruce Woolfe CBE, (1880, Marylebone, London – 1965, Brighton) was an English film producer and occasional director who founded British Instructional Films. The company focused on documentaries, nature films, and works concerning World War I.[1] He was himself a veteran so had an interest in using film to re-enact the war. This links to his being referred to as an "ardent imperialist" who intended to tell heroic stories of said war.[2] In addition to work on war films he initiated the Secrets of Nature series.[3]

Select filmography

Director

  • 1933 : A Typical Rural Distribution System
  • 1933 : Electricity: From Grid To Consumer
  • 1932 : England Awake
  • 1925 : Sons Of The Sea
  • 1924 : Zeebrugge
  • 1923 : Armageddon
  • 1921 : The Battle Of Jutland

Producer

References

  1. [1]
    "British Instructional Films". BFI.org.uk. Archived from the original on 29 August 2008. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  2. [2]
    Paris, Michael (1 January 1999). The First World War and Popular Cinema: 1914 to the Present. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9780813528250. Retrieved 19 February 2017 – via Google Books.
  3. [3]
    Petterson, Palle B. (6 July 2011). Cameras into the Wild: A History of Early Wildlife and Expedition Filmmaking, 1895-1928. McFarland. ISBN 9780786485956. Retrieved 19 February 2017 – via Google Books.
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