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The Thirties in Colour

David Okuefuna

The Thirties in Colour: Episode 1: A World Away

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A World Away

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Episode 1: A World Away

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Rosie Newman, who shot some of the most important colour documentary footage of the 1930s.

Series using film and photography to examine the 1930s looks at the work of Rosie Newman, who shot some of the most important colour documentary footage of the age.

Four-part series using rare, private and commercial film and photographic archives to give poignant and surprising insights into the 1930s, a decade which erupted into colour as polychromatic photographic technology came of age and three important processes - Dufaycolour, Technicolor and Kodachrome - were patented and brought to the market. 

This opening part looks at the work of socialite and amateur film-maker, Rosie Newman, who used her high society contacts to secure extraordinary access to the social elite. Between 1928 and her retirement in the 1960s, Newman criss-crossed the globe and shot some of the most important colour documentary footage of the period. 

Some of her colour films have been seen before, but this programme features some of Newman's work that has never been broadcast and has not been seen publicly for over 70 years.

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Four-part series using photographic archives to give surprising insights into the 1930s.

Four-part series using rare, private and commercial film and photographic archives to give poignant and surprising insights into the 1930s.

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