Rosie Newman

Rosie Violet Nina Millicent Newman FRGS (surname at birth Neumann) (1896–1988)[1] was a British amateur director of documentary films.

[4] Neumann died in 1916; the family definitively adopted the surname Newman 20 years later, with a change in 1936 by royal licence.

[13] Taking up 16mm Kodachrome colour stock shortly after it was introduced by Eastman Kodak, Newman experimented with it in Paris during 1935.

On 28 March she flew from Heston aerodrome to Le Bourget, with a friend, Lady Joan Birkbeck, sister of Geoffrey FitzClarence, 5th Earl of Munster, who returned to the United Kingdom in April.

[22] A photograph from 1940/1 shows Newman with a Ciné-Kodak model K.[23] From her record beginning with the London Blitz, she gradually put together the film Britain at War.

[15] Angus Calder in The Myth of the Blitz claims that the colour images cut across expectations set up by the monochrome standard narrative.

The access was granted after a luncheon party meeting with an admiral, identified tentatively by Jane Fish as Basil Vernon Brooke, a former naval officer who was equerry to the King.

[26] In September that year she filmed lumberjacks from British Honduras working at Haddington, East Lothian, making pit props.

[33] The only case in which her access request was strongly opposed was the Fleet Air Arm, which refused her wish to film on an aircraft carrier.

[25] When the family's Piccadilly town house was badly damaged by air raids, Newman moved to the Dorchester Hotel.

[39] It was shown on American television by WNET and The Discovery Channel in the 1980s, as Miss Rosie Newman's Color Supplement.

[15] Newman's earlier films were the subject of the first part, "A World Away", of The Thirties in Colour, a four-part BBC television series from 2008, directed by Christina Lowry with David Okuefuna as executive director.