Background
Nora Francisca Blackburne was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina daughter of a banker John Devereaux Blackburne and Francisca Nazaria López.
Nora Francisca Blackburne was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina daughter of a banker John Devereaux Blackburne and Francisca Nazaria López.
She was educated at South Hampstead High School and then RADA (class of 1935).
As a striking young woman amongst a very exciting and creative and mostly male crew at the minister of information"s Crown film unit its leader Ian Dalrympal saw she needed a challenge and made her the Assistant to the pioneering documentary film-maker Humphrey Jennings. He was the elder brother of Laurie Lee, and became a film director post war. Her two sons survive her.