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]
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