Harry Bruce Woolfe
Harry Bruce Woolfe (1880, Marylebone, London[1] - 1965, Brighton[2]) 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.[3] He was himself a veteran so had an interested in using film to re-enact the war. This links to him being referred to as an "ardent imperialist" who intended to tell heroic stories of said war.[4] In addition to work on war films he initiated the Secrets of Nature series.[5]
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
- Armageddon (1923)
- The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands (1927)
- Shooting Stars (1927)
- Bolibar (1928)
- Underground (1928)
- The Runaway Princess (1929)
- The Celestial City (1929)
- Tell England (1931)
References
- ↑ http://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/world-records/england-and-wales-births-1837-2006?firstname=harry%20b&lastname=woolfe&eventyear=1880&eventyear_offset=1
- ↑ http://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/world-records/england-and-wales-deaths-1837-2007?firstname=harry%20b&lastname=woolfe&eventyear=1965&eventyear_offset=0
- ↑ BFI database
- ↑ The First World War and Popular Cinema by Michael Paris, pg 55
- ↑ Cameras Into the Wild by Palle B. Petterson, pg 90