Lorentz, Pare
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Variants
- Lorentz, Leonard MacTaggart
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 1905-12-11
Death Date
- 1992-03-04
Birth Place
- Clarksburg (W. Va.)
Field of Activity
Occupation
Filmmaker
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Sources
- found: His Lorentz on film, c1986:CIP t.p. (Pare Lorentz) data sheet (b. 12/11/05)
- found: LC data base, 3-31-86(hdg.: Lorentz, Pare)
- found: Snyder, R.L. Pare Lorentz and the documentary film, c1993:CIP t.p. (Pare Lorentz) galley pref., etc. (Leonard MacTaggart Lorentz; d. Mar. 5, 1992)
- found: Wikipedia, October 2, 2013(Pare Lorentz; an American filmmaker known for his movies about the New Deal; born Leonard MacTaggart Lorentz in Clarksburg, West Virginia on December 11, 1905; he was educated at Wesleyan College and West Virginia University; as a young film critic in New York and Hollywood, Lorentz spoke out against censorship in the film industry; as the most influential documentary filmmaker of the Great Depression, Lorentz was the leading U.S. advocate for government-sponsored documentary films; his service as a filmmaker for the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II was formidable, including technical films, documentation of bombing raids, and synthesizing raw footage of Nazi atrocities for an educational film on the Nuremberg Trials; he died March 4, 1992 in Armonk, New York)
- found: ancestry.com, October 2, 2013(Pare Lorentz; Leonard M. Lorentz; born December 11, 1905; died March 4, 1992)
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Change Notes
- 1986-04-02: new
- 2013-10-22: revised
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