Paul Rotha
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Paul Thompson (June 3, 1907 in London - March 7, 1984 in Wallingford, Oxfordshire) was an English film maker and close collaborator of John Grierson. Wolfgang Suschitzky was one of his cinematographers.
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- The film till now, a survey of the cinema, London, J. 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. Rev. and enl. ed., 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. Correspondence. Selections, London : Chapman & Hall, 1952
- Rotha on the film; a selection of writings about the cinema, Fair Lawn, N.J. 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,US: 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.
