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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