George Groves Photo-Albums
Almost 100 pictures of movie sound history!
Hilda Barrow, displaying her family album of her brother George
The photographs in the four photo-albums are mainly taken from the private Groves family archives and are divided into four chronological sections. Click on a title below to view an album:
Photo-Album #1: 1901 - 1926 The Early Years
George Groves from his birth in Duke Street, St.Helens in 1901 through to his Bell Labs and early Vitaphone work at the Vitagraph Studios and Manhattan Opera House in New York.
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Photo-Album #2: 1927 - 1941 The Warner Bros. Years in Hollywood
George's Vitaphone work in Hollywood beginning with the Jazz Singer. Contains many rare photographs of the seminal sound motion pictures.
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Photo-album #3: 1942 - 1976 War, Warner Bros & Oscar Wins
Begins with his war work in the 1st Motion Picture Unit of the Army Air Force and then his Oscar-winning work at Warners. Ends with George Groves' death in 1976.
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Photo-album #4: 1977 - Hilda's Campaign For Recognition
George Groves' sister Hilda Barrow's campaign in the UK for official recognition of George's work.
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