Harry Bruce Woolfe

Harry Bruce Woolfe (1880, Marylebone, London - 1965, Brighton) was an English film producer and occasional director who founded British Instructional Films. The company focused on documentaries, nature films, and works concerning World War I.^[1] He was himself a veteran so had an interested in using film to re-enact the war. This links to him being referred to as an "ardent imperialist" who intended to tell heroic stories of said war.^[2] In addition to work on war films he initiated the Secrets of Nature series.^[3]

Select filmography

Director

• 1933 : A Typical Rural Distribution System
• 1933 : Electricity: From Grid To Consumer
• 1932 : England Awake
• 1925 : Sons Of The Sea
• 1924 : Zeebrugge
• 1923 : Armageddon
• 1921 : The Battle Of Jutland

Producer

• Armageddon (1923)
• The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands (1927)
• Shooting Stars (1927)
• Bolibar (1928)
• Underground (1928)
• The Runaway Princess (1929)
• The Celestial City (1929)
• Tell England (1931)

References

1. BFI database
2. The First World War and Popular Cinema by Michael Paris, pg 55
3. Cameras Into the Wild by Palle B. Petterson, pg 90

External links

• Harry Bruce Woolfe at the Internet Movie Database