Genre: Black-and-white photographs / Names: Rotha, Margaret Louise, 1909-1962 / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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:: 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:: "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:: 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:: Margaret Rotha, in light dress, and 5 men, 3 in Egyptian native dress, 2 in Western dress, all standing on shore of Nile River, with Aswan Low Dam behind in the last of a 4-year project to rais its height, photographed during the filming of Contact. Cranes are visible in the background on the dam.
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:: 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:: Margaret Rotha, wife of filmmaker Paul Rotha, in light skirt and blouse, standing with arms crossed on lawn near low hillside, during the filming of Contact
Date:: 1932-1933
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
Photographer:: Rotha, Paul, 1907-1984
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

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