John Taylor

John Taylor

John Elston Taylor (5 October 1914 – 15 September 1992) was a British documentary filmmaker. Born in Kentish Town, London, on 5 October 1914, John Taylor had originally set his sights on a career in carpentry; however, shortly after finishing school he was offered a job by his sister's husband, documentary filmmaker John Grierson. Taylor started work as a film assistant at the Empire Marketing Board and in the years that followed he tried his hand at such jobs as camera operator, assistant director and production assistant. Along with working on Grierson's works, Taylor also had the fortune of working alongside some of his colleagues, such as Basil Wright (Song of Ceylon, 1934), Robert Flaherty (Man of Aran, 1934) and Alberto Cavalcanti on several of his travel documentaries, such as Men of the Alps (1937). By the end of the 1930s, Taylor was directing films himself, including Smoke Menace (1937) and Londoners (1939). In the 1940s, Taylor began producing films which helped to expose and improve social issues: Margaret Thomson's Clean Milk (1943) helped improve the Scottish dairy industry; Alex Strasser's Your Children's Eyes (1945) showed how a child's squint could easily be corrected with a minor operation; Daybreak in Udi (d. Terry Bishop, 1949) followed the construction of a maternity hospital in a village in Eastern Nigeria. In 1952, Taylor and Leon Clore set up Countryman Films, a company which made natural history documentaries. Their greatest achievement was probably The Conquest of Everest (d. Thomas Stobbart, 1953), a record of the successful British Everest expedition of 1953 accomplished by John Hunt, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Taylor was involved in a vast number of documentary films that became classics of the genre. He continued working up to the 1980s, producing quality documentaries on themes of social welfare and conservation.

  • Загаловак: John Taylor
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  • Вядомы: Directing
  • Дзень нараджэння: 1914-10-05
  • Месца нараджэння: Kentish Town, London, England, UK
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  • Таксама вядомы як: Джон Тейлор
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John Taylor Фільмы

  • 1933
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    Cable Ship

    Cable Ship

    1 1933 HD

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  • 1934
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    Air Post

    Air Post

    1 1934 HD

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  • 1934
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    Pett and Pott: A Fairy Story of the Suburbs

    Pett and Pott: A Fairy Story of the Suburbs

    5 1934 HD

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  • 1937
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    Air Outpost

    Air Outpost

    1 1937 HD

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  • 1929
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    Drifters

    Drifters

    6.1 1929 HD

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  • 1957
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    Holiday

    Holiday

    6.7 1957 HD

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  • 1937
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    Air Outpost

    Air Outpost

    1 1937 HD

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  • 1945
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    French Town...

    French Town...

    1 1945 HD

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  • 1942
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    A Seaman's Story

    A Seaman's Story

    1 1942 HD

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  • 1942
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    Dustbin Parade

    Dustbin Parade

    1 1942 HD

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  • 1953
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    The Conquest of Everest

    The Conquest of Everest

    7.1 1953 HD

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  • 1952
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    Farmer Moving South

    Farmer Moving South

    1 1952 HD

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  • 1965
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    Rail Report 5

    Rail Report 5

    1 1965 HD

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  • 1936
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    Message from Genova

    Message from Genova

    1 1936 HD

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  • 1959
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    An Artist Looks at Churches

    An Artist Looks at Churches

    1 1959 HD

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  • 1935
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    Housing Problems

    Housing Problems

    5.8 1935 HD

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  • 1966
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    Rail Report 6: The Good Way to Travel

    Rail Report 6: The Good Way to Travel

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1940
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    Letter from Aldershot

    Letter from Aldershot

    1 1940 HD

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    They Also Serve

    They Also Serve

    1 1940 HD

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  • 1964
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    Southampton Docks

    Southampton Docks

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1965
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    Wild Wings

    Wild Wings

    6 1965 HD

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  • 1957
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    Lancashire Coast

    Lancashire Coast

    1 1957 HD

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  • 1952
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    The Heart Is Highland

    The Heart Is Highland

    1 1952 HD

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  • 1957
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    The England of Elizabeth

    The England of Elizabeth

    1 1957 HD

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  • 1959
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    An Artist Looks at Churches

    An Artist Looks at Churches

    1 1959 HD

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  • 1952
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    Journey Into History

    Journey Into History

    1 1952 HD

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  • 1937
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    The Smoke Menace

    The Smoke Menace

    1 1937 HD

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  • 1942
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    Newspaper Train

    Newspaper Train

    5 1942 HD

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