Thorold Dickinson Collection 1930-1984

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Thorold Dickinson Collection 1930-1984

30 boxes and approximately 3000 books and periodicals

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SNAC Resource ID: 6298771

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Dickinson, Thorold

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Thorold Dickinson was born in Bristol in 1903. Dickinson attended Keble College, Oxford, but departed from his studies due to his growing interest in film. In the 1920s he began assisting the director George Pearson, and gained a reputation for his strong editing techniques. By the mid 1930s Dickinson had begun making his own feature films, as well as films of a more documentary nature, such as Spanish ABC . During the Second world War he was appointed by the Ministry of Information to supervise...