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The Honorable Ivor Goldsmid Samuel Montagu (23 April 1904, Kensington, London – 5 November 1984, Watford) was an English filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, film critic, writer, table tennis player, and Communist activist in the 1930s. He helped to develop a lively intellectual film culture in Britain during the interwar years, and was also the founder of the International Table Tennis Federation. ==Life and career== Montagu was born into enormous wealth, as the third son of Gladys Helen Rachel Goldsmid and Louis Montagu, 2nd Baron Swaythling, a Jewish banking dynasty with a mansion in Kensington. He attended Westminster School and King's College, Cambridge, where he contributed to ''Granta''. He became involved in zoological research. With Sidney Bernstein he established the London (Film Society ) in 1925, the first British film association devoted to showing art films and independent films. Montagu became the first film critic of ''The Observer'' and the ''New Statesman''. He did the post-production work on Alfred Hitchcock's ''The Lodger'' in 1926 and was hired by Gaumont-British in the 1930s, working as a producer on a number of the Hitchcock thrillers. His 1928 silent slapstick movie 'Bluebottles' (slang for police) is included in the British Film Institute's History of the Avant-Garde – ''Britain in the Twenties''. The story was by H G Wells, and the stars of the film were Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester, while the remaining cast were his friends including Norman Haire (also Montagu's doctor), Sergei Nolbandov and Joe Beckett. Montagu joined the Fabian Society in his youth, then the British Socialist Party, and then the Communist Party of Great Britain. This brought him into contact with the brilliant Russian film makers who were transforming the language of editing.and montage in the 1920s. In 1930 he accompanied his friend Sergei Eisenstein to New York and Hollywood; later in the decade Montagu made a number of compilation films, including ''Defence of Madrid'' (1936) and ''Peace and Plenty'' (1939)〔(British Film Institute: Peace and Plenty ). Ivor Montagu, 1939.〕 about the Spanish Civil War. He directed the documentary ''Wings Over Everest'' (1934) with Geoffrey Barkas. As a political figure and for a time a communist, much of his work at the time was on low budget, independent political films. By World War II, however, he made a film for the Ministry of Information. After the war Montagu worked as a film critic and reviewer. In 1933, Montagu was a founder member of the Association of Cinematograph and Television Technicians, holding various positions in the union until the 1960s. He also held post on the World Council of Peace. Montagu had a keen interest in wildlife conservation, and was a council member of the Fauna Preservation Society for several years. He was friends with the eminent Soviet conservationist and zoologist Prof. A Bannikov. He had contacts in Mongolia, and was a champion for the conservation of the endangered Przewalski's horse. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ivor Montagu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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