Basil Wright
Basil Wright, (June 12, 1907, Sutton, Surrey - 14 October, 1987, Frieth, Buckinghamshire, England), was an English documentary filmmaker, film historian, film critic and teacher.
Centenary Celebrations
In honor of Basil Wright's centenary year, his career, and the careers of his colleagues and fellow centenarians: Edgar Anstey, Marion Grierson, Humphrey Jennings and Paul Rotha, were celebrated with a season of films between August and October 2007 at the British Film Institute in London.
Filmography As Director
- Conquest (1930)
- The Country Comes To Town (*Bfi's Screenonline links to the Film. )
- O'er Hill and Dale (*Bfi's Screenonline links to the Film. )
- Liner Cruising South
- Cargo From Jamaica
- Windmill in Barbados
- Song of Ceylon (*Bfi's Screenonline links to the Film. )
- Children at School (*Forthcoming on a New Bfi Boxset DVD)
- The Face of Scotland (*Available from Scottish Screen)
- Waters of Time (*Available from Museum in Docklands, London)
- World Without End Film
- The Stained Glass at Fairford(*Watch at the Arts Council Film Collection)
- Greece: The Immortal Land
- Greek Sculpture: 3000 BC to 300 BC
- A Place For Gold
References
- Basil Wright, (1948), The Uses of Film, Bodley Head, Oxford.
- Basil Wright, (1974), The Long View: An International History of Cinema, Secker & Warburg, London.
- Ian Aitken, (1998), The documentary film movement: an anthology, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press.
- Martin Stollery, (2000) Alternative empires: European modernist cinemas and the cultures of imperialism, Exeter, University of Exeter Press.
External links
- IMDB Entry For Basil Wright
- Bfi's Screenonline entry for Basil Wright
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Watch Films from the Arts Council Film Collection
- The Royal Anthropological Institute