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Louis Clark de Rochemont (January 13, 1899 – December 23, 1978) was an American film maker known for creating, along with Roy E. Larsen, the monthly theatrically shown newsreels The March of Time. His brother, Richard , was also a producer and writer on The March of Time .
Louis De Rochemont. Producer: 13 Rue Madeleine. Louis de Rochemont, the maverick filmmaker and documentarian whose "The Fighting Lady" (1944) won an Oscar, was born in Chelsea. Massachusetts in 1899. He filmed his first newsreel when he was 12 years old and established his reputation making March of Time newsreels in the 1930s.
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Louis Clark de Rochemont was an American film maker known for creating, along with Roy E. Larsen, the monthly theatrically shown newsreels The March of Time. His brother, Richard, was also a producer and writer on The March of Time.
Apr 3, 2016 · Documentary on American newsreel pioneer Louis de Rochemont, by Gary David Anderson for New Hampshire Movies, featuring de Rochemont's film on the bombing of...
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Dec 25, 1978 · Mr. de Rochemont is survived by his wife of 49 years, the former Virginia Shaler; two children, Louis 3d and Virginia McReel ; six grandchildren, and brother, Richard, of New York and Flemington, N.J.
Louis de Rochemont is best remembered today for his involvement with Roy Larsen in producing Time magazine's innovative and popular newsreel The March of Time and for pioneering in a postwar Hollywood subgenre, the so-called "semidocumentary." Generally overlooked, however, is de Rochemont's far-ranging work in the early days of American ...
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Jul 29, 2001 · Louis de Rochemont III, 70, a filmmaker who directed the 1958 wide-screen production "Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich," died July 11 of complications from diabetes at his home ...
