A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Born:
January 13, 1899
Died:
December 23, 1978
He co-founded and was the first director of The March of Time, which added topical issues to newsreels. He also produced feature film documentaries that based dramatic narrative on factual records, including "The House On 92nd Street" (1945), which used real FBI files, "Boomerang!" (1946), it included a reenactment of an actual murder case and a biography, "Martin Luther" (1953).
Director:
1930 Meet Me Down at Coney Isle
1936 The March of Time: An American Dictator
1940 The Ramparts We Watch
1942 Africa, Prelude to Victory
1942 We Are the Marines
1943 Show-Business at War
1943 Youth in Crisis
1951 A Day With The F.B.I.
1958 Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich
Editor:
1930 Meet Me Down at Coney Isle
1934 The First World War
1936 The March of Time: An American Dictator
1940 The Ramparts We Watch
1942 Africa, Prelude to Victory
1942 We Are the Marines
1943 Show-Business at War
1943 Youth in Crisis
1951 A Day With The F.B.I.
1958 Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich
Producer:
1930 Meet Me Down at Coney Isle
1934 The First World War
1936 The March of Time: An American Dictator
1938 Inside Nazi Germany
1939 The Movies March On
1940 The Ramparts We Watch
1942 Africa, Prelude to Victory
1942 We Are the Marines
1943 Show-Business at War
1943 Youth in Crisis
1945 The House on 92nd Street
1947 13 Rue Madeleine
1947 Boomerang!
1949 Lost Boundaries
1951 A Day With The F.B.I.
1951 The Whistle at Eaton Falls
1952 Walk East on Beacon!
1958 The March of Todd-AO
1958 Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich
1960 Man on a String
1961 The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
1967 Her Name Was Ellie, His Name Was Lyle
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.