Paddy Whannel (1922-1980) Papers 1896-1980

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Paddy Whannel (1922-1980) Papers 1896-1980

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Atholl Douglas (Paddy) Whannel was a film scholar. Born in 1922, Whannel came to teach at Northwestern in 1969 and became an associate professor of film in 1972. Whannel died in England in 1980.The Paddy Whannel Papers fill three and one-half boxes and span the years from 1896 to 1980. Comprising the series are: biographical materials, general correspondence, writings, research materials, and course materials.

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Founded in 1985, Northwestern University's Institute for Modern Communications (IMC) is an interdisciplinary program of media studies designed to promote scholarship that does not neatly fit the curricula of either the School of Speech or the Medill School of Journalism. The Institute's philosophy unites theory and practice, research and teaching, scholarship and production. In the fall of 1983, President Strotz and the Board of Trustees identified mass communication as ...

Whannel, Paddy, 1922-1980

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Atholl Douglas (Paddy) Whannel was a film scholar. Born in 1922, Whannel came to teach at Northwestern in 1969 and became an associate professor of film in 1972. Whannel died in England in 1980. Whannel was born in October, 1922 in Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland, the son of Douglas and Margaret (Sutherland) Whannel. After attending local schools from 1927 through 1937 Whannel worked as a projectionist at Pitlochry's Regal Cinema until 1942. From 1942 to 1945...