Richard de Rochemont (December 13, 1903 – August 2, 1982) was an American documentary filmmaker in the late 1940s, who worked on the March of Time newsreel series.[1]

Richard was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1903. He attended Harvard University and started his film career as a foreign editor for Fox Movietone News (1930-1934).[2] He was the brother of documentary filmmaker and feature film producer Louis de Rochemont.

Stationed in France until 1941,[3] Richard de Rochemont produced a series of shorts which covered subjects like World War II, the 1920s, and the Vatican. He produced Crusade in Europe (1949),[4] the very first documentary series produced for television,[5] based on the book by Dwight D. Eisenhower, produced by Time Inc., and distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox Television. He also won a Best Documentary Short Academy Award for A Chance to Live (1949).[1] In 1952 he produced various films on Lincoln.[6] In 1955 de Rochemont founded his own film production company, Vavin Incorporated.[7][8] The company produced instructional films for organizations like Reader's digest and the French Tourist Office between the 1950s and 1980s.[2]

In 1943,[9] de Rochemont became the president of France Forever[10] and continued his action until after the Liberation, giving way to Doctor Albert Simard.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b Waggoner, Walter H. (1982-08-06). "RICHARD DE ROCHEMONT, 78, DIES; MADE 'MARCH OF TIME' NEWSREELS". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-10-04.
  2. ^ a b "Richard De Rochemont papers 1900-1997". rmoa.unm.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-24.
  3. ^ deRochemont, Richard (24 August 1942). "The French Underground". LIFE. p. 86.
  4. ^ Taylor, Philip S.; Roberts, Graham; Taylor, Philip M.; Pronay, Nicholas (2001). The Historian, Television and Television History: A Collection. Indiana University Press. p. 133. ISBN 978-1-86020-586-6.
  5. ^ Sims, Michael (2011-07-04). "17". The Story of Charlotte's Web: E. B. White and the Birth of a Children's Classic. A&C Black. ISBN 978-1-4088-2306-4.
  6. ^ Reinhart, Mark S. (2009-01-01). Abraham Lincoln on Screen: Fictional and Documentary Portrayals on Film and Television. McFarland. p. 155. ISBN 978-0-7864-5261-3.
  7. ^ Inc, Nielsen Business Media (1955-03-12). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. ((cite book)): |last= has generic name (help)
  8. ^ Russell, Patrick; Taylor, James Piers (2019-07-25). Shadows of Progress: Documentary Film in Post-War Britain. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-83871-813-8.
  9. ^ a b Revue de la France libre, Revue No. 240, 1982, p. 1899 [1] [2]. Fondation de la France libre.
  10. ^ de Rochemont, Richard (1945-01-08). The Future of Liberated France. Time Inc (LIFE Magazine). p. 78.

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