my profile | my password | search | faq & rules | forum home

» Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE   » Community   » Film-Yak   » Film historian dies.

Author Topic: Film historian dies. Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 08-11-2003 07:22 AM                     Another film personality death to report, British film writer, historian and archivist John Huntly died on 7th August. He served in the RAF during the 39-45 war, after which he worked in the music department at Denham Studios. During the late '40s he published a number of books on film-related subjects. After a somewhat crontroversial period at thh British Film Institute he combined his interests in music and film when he set up Huntley Film Archives, dealing mainly with music/entertainment and aircraft/railway/transport related subjects. In recent years the running of the archive had been largly taken over by his daughter, Amanda, and other staff, but despite a long peoiod of ill-health continued to give his popular film shows until a few months ago; The final one was the at the Fairfield Halls in Croydon in March this year. The subjects, as with his first show 25 years previously, were 'Croydon Airport and the Crystal Palace'. There is alengthly obituary to him in today's (August 11th) Guardian.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 08-11-2003 09:25 AM                        Link to obituary... To be fair, he had worked at the BFI for over a decade before the 'controversy' developed. It obviously went pretty deep: when I worked there almost two decades after he'd left it was still virtually forbidden to mention his name.  |  IP: Logged

All times are Central (GMT -6:00)

Printer-friendly view of this topic

Hop To: Select a Forum: Category: Operations -------------------- Digital Cinema Forum Film Handlers' Forum Large Format Forum Ground Level Feature Info, Trailer Attachments & REAL Credit Offsets Category: Community -------------------- Film-Yak Film Handlers' Movie Reviews The Afterlife Bob Maar's Joke-A-Thon Category: Classified -------------------- Equipment and Supplies Wanted/For Sale Help Wanted/Seeking Employment Category: System -------------------- Software Beta Testing Forum

The Film-Tech Forums are designed for various members related to the cinema industry to express their opinions, viewpoints and testimonials on various products, services and events based upon speculation, personal knowledge and factual information through use, therefore all views represented here allow no liability upon the publishers of this web site and the owners of said views assume no liability for any ill will resulting from these postings. The posts made here are for educational as well as entertainment purposes and as such anyone viewing this portion of the website must accept these views as statements of the author of that opinion and agrees to release the authors from any and all liability.