George C. Stoney
American documentary filmmaker, educator, and "father of public-access television / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other people with the same name, see George Stoney (disambiguation).
George Cashel Stoney (July 1, 1916 ā July 12, 2012) was an American documentary filmmaker, educator, and the "father of public-access television." Among his films were Palmour Street, A Study of Family Life (1949), All My Babies (1953), How the Myth Was Made (1979) and The Uprising of '34 (1995). All My Babies was entered into the National Film Registry in 2002.[1][2] Stoney's life and work were the subject of a Festschrift volume of the journal Wide Angle in 1999.[3]
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Born | George Cashel Stoney (1916-07-01)July 1, 1916 Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S. |
Died | July 12, 2012(2012-07-12) (aged 96) New York, New York, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | filmmaker, educator |
Known for | documentary film, public-access television |
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