George C. Stoney Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
George Cashel Stoney (July 1, 1916 – July 12, 2012) was a documentary filmmaker, an educator, and the "father of public-access television". Among his films were 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. Stoney's life and work were the subject of a Festschrift volume of the journal Wide Angle in 1999.George Cashel Stoney was born in 1916. He studied English and History at the University of North Carolina and Balliol College in Oxford, and received a Film in Education Certificate from the University of London. He worked at the Henry Street Settlement House on the Lower East Side of NYC in 1938, as a field research assistant for Gunnar Myrdal and Ralph Bunche's project on Suffrage in the South in 1940, and as an information officer for the Farm Security Administration until he was drafted in 1942. Throughout this time he also wrote free-lance articles for many newspapers and magazines, including the Raleigh News and Observer and the Survey Graphic. He served as a photo intelligence officer in World War II. In 1946, he joined the Southern Educational Film Service as writer and director. He started his own production company in 1950, taught at Stanford University from 1965–67 and directed the Challenge for Change project, a socially active documentary production wing of the National Film Board of Canada from 1968-70. With Red Burns, Stoney co-founded the Alternate Media Center in 1972, which trained citizens in the tools of video production for a brand new medium, Public-access television. An early advocate of democratic media, Stoney is often cited as being the "father of public-access television".Stoney made over 50 documentary films on wide ranging subjects. All My Babies, one of his first films, received numerous awards and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2002.Stoney was an active member of the Board of Directors for the Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) and the Alliance for Community Media (ACM). Each year, the ACM presents "The George Stoney Award" to an organization or individual who has made an outstanding contribution to championing the growth and experience of humanistic community communications.In 1971, Stoney became a professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He was an emeritus professor there at this death. Stoney had been team-teaching a course with David Bagnall, his long-time film collaborator and former student.He died peacefully at the age of 96 at his home in New York City.
Prime purpose in life now. Well my prime concern now is my family and my friends. Politics is important. But my primary interest is in the people who are around me. I'm always a bit suspect when people lose their roots in their family and in their community.
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Make anybody famous. To celebrate the ordinary things people do to help one another.
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We look on cable as a way of encouraging public action, not just access. It's how people can get information to their neighbors, and their neighbors can get out on the streets to organize.
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Pioneer film maker and champion of public access television. Teacher of film at the University of Southern California, City College, Columbia University, Stanford University and New York University. Founding board member of the Alliance for Community Media.
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He joined the New York University Film School in 1971 and helped find Alternate Media Center.
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He earned a Bachelor's Degree from the University of North Carolina in English and History. He studied at Balliol College, Oxford University in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. He earned his certification in film education at the University of London in London, England.
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He worked as a field research assistant in the South for civil rights groups in the 1940s. He was a photo intelligence officer during World War II. After the war, he worked as a newspaper reporter. He made films for the state government agencies before starting his own film company.
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He is survived by a son, James Stoney; a daughter, Louise Stoney; a granddaughter; and a great-granddaughter.
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He taught filmmaking at New York University from 1970 until 2012.
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Mr. Stoney helped create the National Federation of Local Cable Programmers.
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He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, and received certification in film education at the University of London.
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He worked as a field research assistant in the South for civil rights groups in the 1940s, was a photo intelligence officer during World War II and afterward worked as a newspaper reporter. He made films for state government agencies before beginning his own film company.
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His survivors include a son, James; a daughter, Louise; a sister, Elizabeth Segal; one granddaughter; and a great-granddaughter.
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
What's Organic About Organic?
2010
Video documentary consulting producer - as George Stoney
We Shall Overcome
1989
Documentary producer - as George Stoney
The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time
1981
Documentary producer - as George Stoney
How the Myth Was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran
1978
Documentary producer
When I Go. That's It!
1972
Short producer
I Don't Think It's Meant for Us
1971
Documentary short producer
Introduction to Labrador
1970
Documentary short producer
Occupation
1970
Documentary producer
A Young Social Worker Speaks Her Mind
1969
Short producer
Mrs Case
1969
Short producer
The Prince Edward Island Development Plan, Part 1: Ten Days in September
1969
Documentary producer
The Prince Edward Island Development Plan, Part 2: Four Days in March
1969
Documentary producer
These Are My People...
1969
Short producer
Up Against the System
1969
Short documentary producer
You Are on Indian Land
1969
Documentary short producer
VTR St-Jacques
1969
Documentary short producer
All My Babies: A Midwife's Own Story
1953
Documentary producer
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Uprising of '34
1995
TV Movie documentary as George Stoney
How the Myth Was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran
1978
Documentary
When I Go. That's It!
1972
Short
God Help the Man Who Would Part with His Land
1971
Documentary
Booked for Safekeeping
1960
Short
The Boy Who Saw Through
1956
Short as George Stoney
The Invader
1955
Short
All My Babies: A Midwife's Own Story
1953
Documentary
The American Road
1953
Documentary short as George Stoney
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Booked for Safekeeping
1960
Short written by
All My Babies: A Midwife's Own Story
1953
Documentary writer
Birthright
1951
as George Stoney
Mining Review 2nd Year No. 6
1949
Documentary short uncredited
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Mining Review 2nd Year No. 6
1949
Documentary short production assistant - uncredited
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Curtis
2004
Short dedicatee
And the Walls Came Tumbling Down
1973
Documentary short thanks: love and support
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Reflections on Media Ethics
2011
Documentary short
Himself
Charlie Rose
1995
TV Series
Himself - Guest
How the Myth Was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran