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Yesterday's Witness: George Pearson: Pioneer Film Maker

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

George Pearson, now 95, grand old man of silent films and a leading British film director of his day, was a mere 93 when this programme was made.
He movingly recalls some of his early years: seeing moving pictures for the first time more than 70 years ago; making some of his first films during the Great War; turning Betty Balfour into a star in the early 1920s...
The programme includes excerpts from some of Pearson's films: Christmas Day in the Workhouse (1914), Nothing Else Matters (1920), Squibs Wins the Calcutta Sweep (1922), Reveille (1924)

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Subject:
George Pearson
Producer:
Stephen Peet
Source: Radio Times

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