Basil Wright
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Basil Wright - was a documentary filmmaker, film historian, film critic and teacher. During World War II, Wright worked only as a producer, first at John Grierson's Film Centre before joining The Crown Film Unit between 1945 and 1946 as producer-in-charge. Among the best known films he produced for Crown are Humphrey Jennings' A Diary for Timothy (1946) and A Defeated People (1946) and Instruments of the Orchestra (1946) featuring Benjamin Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra.[1] Returning to direction in the early 1950s, his films included Waters of Time (1951) made for the Fe…
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Basil Charles Wright
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Advance Democracy!
1938 · Movie
Every Day
1929 · Movie
The Londoners
1939 · Movie
A Diary for Timothy
1945 · Movie
The Immortal Land
1958 · Movie
Omnibus - Cuckoo: A Celebration of Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy
1974 · Movie
Men of Africa
1940 · Movie
The Rape of Czechoslovakia
1939 · Movie
It Might Be You
1946 · Movie
One Wish Too Many
1956 · Movie
A Defeated People
1946 · Movie
Rainbow Dance
1936 · Movie