George Groves in UCLA Documentary

Saturday, 21 April 2007      Blog Category:  George Groves News
UCLA film and television archive logo
The Rick Chace Foundation and the UCLA Film and Television Archive are producing a comprehensive three part documentary DVD series on the history of sound in motion pictures. The DVDs will be released in June 2007 and will be distributed free of charge to educational institutions and archives worldwide. The first part is entitled A Century of Sound – The History of Sound in Motion Pictures: The Beginning 1876-1932 and is based on a lecture prepared originally in 1992 by Robert Gitt, Chief Preservation Officer of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. It contains many unseen film clips and portions of many Vitaphone productions and will also feature 17 minutes of George Groves' oral history which he made in 1975, just a year before he died.

I've been sent a copy of the introduction to the voice-over which refers to George's "illustrious career " and "significant contributions " to sound motion pictures. I've been delighted to supply the production team with many stills used in this web site and I look forward to viewing the DVD. It's great to see that George's pioneering work is continuing to gain recognition 31 years after his death.