Background
He was born Paul Thompson in London, and educated at Highgate School and at the Slade School of Fine Artist
He was born Paul Thompson in London, and educated at Highgate School and at the Slade School of Fine Artist
Highgate School.
Rotha was a close collaborator of John Grierson, and Wolfgang Suschitzky was one of his cinematographers. He directed dozens of documentaries including Contact (1933), The Face of Britain (1935), World of Plenty (1943), Land of Promise (1947), A City Speaks (1947) and many others Rotha was Head of British Broadcasting Corporation television"s Documentaries Department between May 1953 and May 1955.
Rotha shared with Otto Neurath an interest in the techniques of visual communication, and the two men worked together on several films, where Neurath"s ISOTYPE pictorial statistics were animated as an important component of the films" arguments.
He was a major opponent of sound in movies.
