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Walter C. Mycroft - The Time of My Life (Paperback)
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Walter C. Mycroft - The Time of My Life (Paperback)
Series: The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series
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Walter Charles Mycroft (1890-1959) was the film critic of the
Evening Standard from 1922-1927, and also a founding member of
London's Film Society. In 1928, he was appointed Head of the
Scenario Department-and then Director of Production-at British
International Pictures (later Associated British Pictures). In 1941
Mycroft was sacked following the death of the company's Managing
Director and the requisition of Elstree studios by the British
Government for war purposes. After that his career went into steady
decline, although after the Second World War he worked for nearly a
decade as Scenario Adviser to Robert Clark, who ran the rebuilt
Elstree studios. This long-lost memoir, which Mycroft wrote mainly
in the 1940s, offers a detailed account of the vagaries and complex
economic vicissitudes of British film production in the 1930s.
Mycroft also recalls how he selected film stories for directors
Harry Lachman, E. A. Dupont and Alfred Hitchcock, and he reveals,
for the first time, the true story behind Hitchcock's departure
from British International Pictures. Mycroft also provides incisive
portraits of British film industry captains: the charismatic
Alexander Korda, C. M. Woolf, the rising J. Arthur Rank, and above
all John Maxwell, the shrewd iconoclastic Scots lawyer who built
Associated British into the largest and most financially successful
film corporation in pre-war Britain. The memoirs conclude with the
death of Maxwell and Mycroft's fall from grace at Elstree. The
volume is supplemented by four appendixes consisting of Mycroft's
earlier writings on the aesthetics and business of film production,
along with a filmography of over 200 films on which he worked. This
memoir provides both scholars and the general reader with new and
fascinating insights into the worlds of British journalism during
the first two decades of the twentieth century and of British film
production during the 1930s. Walter Mycroft: The Time of My Life
will be of interest not only to scholars of British journalism a
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