Subject: Contact (Motion picture: 1933) / Genre: Black-and-white photographs / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Cameraman Frank Goodliffe seen from the back operating a motion picture camera on a tripod. He is photographing fallen column drums and a column base of the Temple of Olympian Zeus. Beyond the column drums is Paul Rotha, seen from the back, elevated and holding on to the thin trunk of a tree and a tree branch
Date:: January 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

Description:: Cameraman Frank Goodliffe and Margaret Rotha, wife of filmmaker Paul Rotha, on the Acropolis with the Propylaea in the background and a Parvo ("Debrie") motion picture camera on a tripod in front of them. They are smoking cigarettes and a bottle of wine, two wine glasses and a paper bag are on a large pavement stone next to Margaret's feet. On a block of stone on the left is a Newman-Sinclair motion picture camera.
Date:: January 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

Description:: Paul Rotha and cameraman Frank Goodliffe on the Acropolis with a Parvo ("Debrie") motion picture camera on a tripod, during the filming of "Contact." On the right is the Parthenon and the Erechtheum is in the background.
Date:: January 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

Description:: Cameraman Frank Goodliffe kneeling and looking through the lens of a Parvo ("Debrie") motion picture camera on a tripod, filming the Parthenon, on the right, for the film "Contact." Filmmaker Paul Rotha stands next to him. On a block of stone on the left is a Newman-Sinclair motion picture camera. On the ground behind Goodliffe is a bottle of wine, two wine glasses and a paper bag.
Date:: January 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

Description:: A Parvo ("Debrie") motion picture camera on a tripod and Rotha lying on the ground and looking through a Newman-Sinclair motion picture camera in front of a fallen fluted column at the Temple of Olympian Zeus during the filming of "Contact."
Date:: January, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

Description:: Margaret Rotha, wife of filmmaker Paul Rotha, on the Acropolis during the filming of "Contact." The Propylaea is visible in the background.
Date:: January 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

Description:: "Contact" (1933) is a documentary film by Paul Rotha. Made for Imperial Airways and sponsored by Shell-Mex and BP Ltd, "Contact" shows the construction of an airplane and how air travel is opening up the world. It was filmed in England and along air routes in the Middle East, Africa and Athens
Date:: [November 1932-January 1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

Description:: Photograph of cameraman Frank Goodliffe and Margaret Rotha, wife of filmmaker Paul Rotha, standing behind a Parvo ("Debrie") motion picture camera on a tripod during the filming of "Contact." On a block of stone on the left is a Newman-Sinclair motion picture camera. On the ground in front of Goodliffe is a bottle of wine, two wine glasses and a paper bag.
Date:: January 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

Description:: “Contact" (1933) is a documentary film by Paul Rotha. Made for Imperial Airways and sponsored by Shell-Mex and BP Ltd, "Contact" shows the construction of an airplane and how air travel was opening up the world. It was filmed in England and along air routes in the Middle East, Africa and Athens.
Date:: January 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

Description:: Paul Rotha looking through the lens of a Newman-Sinclair motion picture camera on a tripod towards the Nile River during the filming of Contact. Three local attendants stand behind him wearing turbans, tunics and skirts with one carrying an umbrella. A man wearing a fez and a suit, probably a Shell employee, stands behind Rotha. The man standing on the right wearing a pith helmet and tweed jacket and holding a cane is probably the cameraman Horace Wheddon.
Date:: January 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

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