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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]
Harry Bruce Woolfe (1880-1965) was the managing director of British Instructional Films, and later Gaumont-British Instructional, the two production companies responsible for producing Secrets of Nature and Secrets of life. Bruce Woolfe produced a number of World War I films before embarking on the Secrets series.
Sep 16, 2021 · Harry Bruce Woolfe (1880–1965) was responsible for noteworthy innovations in documentary style and content in the 1920s. Footnote 1 Philip French sums up Woolfe’s professional timeline: Later, in the 1930s he produced more than 300 classroom films; During WW2 he produced training films for the military followed by children’s entertainment, and, from 1949 to 1952, documentaries for ...
- Dan Geva
- 2021
From humble beginnings working out of an old army hut in Elstree, British Instructional Films (BIF) established itself during the 1920s as Britain’s foremost producer of geographical, scientific and nature films. Harry Bruce Woolfe, who founded the company in August 1919 with a capital of £3,000, sought to produce pictures which were both ...
1933: Harry Bruce Woolfe Harry Bruce Woolfe (1880–1965) was responsible for noteworthy inno-vations in documentary style and content in the 1920s.1 Philip French sums up Woolfe’s professional timeline: Later, in the 1930s he produced more than 300 classroom lms; During WW2 he produced training lms for the military followed by children’s
Headed by the founder of British Instructional Films (BIF), Harry Bruce Woolfe, and joined by many of BIF’s staff, GBI shared its predecessor’s initial interest in ‘visual education’, while also retaining a particular interest in imperial subjects.
May 20, 2021 · Founded in 1919 by Harry Bruce-Woolfe (1880-1965), after he had served in the army in the Great War, BIF went on to produce some of the biggest British movies of the 1920s, and made its reputation largely because many of the films paid strong jingoistic tribute to British heroism and the Empire.
