Edgar Anstey
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Edgar Anstey, (16 February 1907, Watford, Hertfordshire, England- 26 September 1987, London, England), was a leading British documentary film-maker.
Anstey was educated at Watford Grammar School for Boys and Birkbeck College. He spent a few years as a civil servant before starting in 1930 at The Empire Marketing Board's film unit, under the direction of John Grierson.
[edit] See Also
- Alberto Cavalcanti
- Arthur Elton
- John Grierson
- Humphrey Jennings
- Wolfgang Suschitsky
[edit] External links
- Nicholas Pronay, ‘Anstey, Edgar Harold Macfarlane (1907–1987)’, rev., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 4 Oct 2007
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