Louis de Rochemont

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Louis de Rochemont , also Louis De Rochemont , (born January 13, 1899 in Boston , United States , † December 23, 1978 in Newington (New Hampshire) , United States) was an American producer and director of documentaries who also made some Has made feature films and has made a name for himself above all as the founding father and producer of the US newsreel The March of Time .

Live and act

De Rochemont production Inside Nazi Germany premiered in New York in 1938

The descendant of a French Huguenot family , received his education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Harvard University . Louis de Rochemont served as an officer in the US Navy from 1917 to 1923 before joining the film in 1923. This year Roche de Mont was of William Randolph Hearst newsreel International Newsreel set in the Editor section. After four years he moved to the Pathé weekly newsreel as its European director, the following year (1928) de Rochemont went to Movietone News and began producing and directing films for the first time. In 1933/34 he was in charge of the March of the Year series, and from 1935 Louis de Rochemont worked for seven years as the producer of the most famous US newsreel March of Time , which was managed by Time Magazine and which he launched together with Roy E. Larsen had, in appearance. As part of this newsreel, his spectacular interior view of Hitler's Germany Inside Nazi Germany , compiled in 1937 and shown for the first time in January 1938, caused a stir in the USA and began to take the public strongly against this Germany for the first time.

The windjammer of the de Rochemont film of the same name (1958), "Christian Radich"

After Rochemont had produced the Oscar- winning documentary The Fighting Lady for Twentieth Century Fox , he was subsequently entrusted with feature films, including the anti-Nazi espionage stories The House on 92nd Street and 13 Rue Madeleine and the film Noir classic boomerang . From 1948 to 1952 Louis de Rochemont produced, in addition to other feature films that he produced with his own company, Louis de Rochemont Associates, also contributions to the documentary series The Earth and Its Peoples . After a Cinerama film about two couples traveling together (1955) Boston ended in 1958 another success with a film about a Windjammer -Travel under this same title . After his ambitious Tennessee Williams film The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone did not get too good reviews, Louis de Rochemont largely withdrew from the film business.

His son Louis de Rochemont III (1930-2001) and his younger brother Richard de Rochemont have also excelled in the field of documentary film production.

Filmography

As a producer of short and long documentaries, unless otherwise stated :

  • 1930: Meet Me Down at Coney Isle (also director)
  • 1933: The Story of Hell on Earth
  • 1937: Inside Nazi Germany
  • 1939: The State of the Nation (also cut)
  • 1939: Crisis in the Pacific (also editing)
  • 1940: The Ramparts We Wach (also director)
  • 1941: Battlefields of the Pacific
  • 1942: We Are the Marines (also director)
  • 1943: Upbeat in Music (also screenplay)
  • 1943: Show-Business at War (also director)
  • 1944: The Fighting Lady
  • 1945: The House on 92nd Street ( The House on 92nd Street ) (feature film)
  • 1946: 13 Rue Madeleine (feature film)
  • 1946: Boomerang (Boomerang) (feature film)
  • 1948: Nomads of the Jungle: Malaya
  • 1949: When Parents Are Silent ( Lost Boundaries ) (Feature Film)
  • 1951: A Day With the FBI (also director)
  • 1951: The Whistle at Eaton Falls (feature film)
  • 1951: Living in a Metropolis (also director)
  • 1952: Walk East on Beacon (feature film)
  • 1952: Martin Luther (feature film)
  • 1954: Cinerama Holiday (also screenplay)
  • 1956: Miracle of Todd-AO ( The Miracle of Todd-AO )
  • 1958: Windjammer
  • 1959: Secret Agent M ( Man on a String ) (feature film)
  • 1960: Summer Incident (also director)
  • 1961: The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone ( The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone ) (feature film)
  • 1961: The Sand Castle (feature film)
  • 1962: When I'm Old Enough ... Good-Bye!

literature

  • International Motion Picture Almanac 1965, Quigley Publishing Company, New York 1964, p. 69
  • The World Encyclopedia of Film. Associate Editors: Tim Cawkwell & John M. Smith. P. 68. London 1972
  • Ephraim Katz : The Film Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. Revised by Fred Klein and Ronald Dean Nolen. New York 2001, p. 361

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personal data
SURNAME Rochemont, Louis de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American newsreel maker, documentary filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , United States
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1978
Place of death Newington (New Hampshire) , United States