Edward Godal

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Edward Godal (born before 1917; died after 1938) was a British sketch writer , film producer and film director .

Life

Godal began his career as a sketch writer and turned to film production as early as the mid-1910s; In 1917, as the head of his British Fotoplay Company , he persuaded the Music Hall artist George H. Chirgwin to record his sketch as "Blind Boy" for the film. In addition, he ran a "training school" for film actors, the Victoria Cinema Studios, until the end of the war .

Shortly after the First World War , Godal had worked for the company B & C Company (the British and Colonial Cinematograph Company , which had its headquarters in Walthamstow ) as a production manager. Godal also wanted to conquer the US market with his films. Among other things, he was on a lecture tour in the United States in 1920, where he also wanted to find a distributor for his film The black spider . Despite references to American technology and involvement, he had little success with it. Godal continued to produce fairly large-scale films; Examples from later years include a 1923 version of The Taming of the Shrew and Scrooge, and - after he retired from B & C in 1924 - the early Western Adventurous Youth (1928) for his own company Godal International Films . For this production company founded with his partner Sir Berkeley Vincent , he also financed a series of two-acts under the collective title The Art of Love . An announced collaboration with HG Wells , under the title The Peace of the World , for which he also wrote an exposé, made a big stir; the project probably failed because of private aversions.

After the end of the silent film era, only the film Chips, produced in 1938, can be found in filmography, for which he is also a director; then Godal's trail is lost.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lionel Carson: The stage yearbook, 1911, lists the sketch "Regulating a home" for about June 16
  2. ^ Rachael Low: History of British Film, Vol. 3, 2005, pp. 71f.
  3. ↑ Kerry Segrave: Foreign Films in America; a history. 2004, p. 31
  4. ^ Rachael Low, Roger Manvell: The history of the British Film, Vol. 4. 1986, p. 137
  5. ↑ Anthony Slide: Silent topics: essays on undocumented areas of silent film. 2005, p. 9
  6. ^ Low: History ... Vol. 4., pp. 198ff.
personal data
SURNAME Godal, Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British sketch writer, film producer and film director
DATE OF BIRTH before 1917
DATE OF DEATH after 1938