- Partial filmography
- References
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2019}}{{Use British English|date=January 2019}}Sarah Erulkar (2 May 1923 – 29 May 2015) was a BAFTA award-winning Indian-born British filmmaker, specialising in sponsored documentary shorts.[1] Starting her career at the Shell Film Unit, she subsequently directed sponsored films at many production companies. Her best-known films include Lord Siva Danced (1947), the BAFTA-winning Picture to Post (1969) and the Central Office of Information public information film Never Go With Strangers (1971). Erulkar was born in Kolkata, India on 2 May 1923.[1] Her family moved to London, England in 1928. She studied sociology at Bedford College. She took a job at the Shell Film Unit.[1] Erulkar was married to science filmmaker Peter de Normanville. Partial filmography - Aircraft Today and Tomorrow (1946)
- Flight for Tomorrow (1947)
- Lord Siva Danced (1947)
- The History of the Helicopter (1951)
- District Nurse (1952)
- Birthright (1958)
- Spat System (1960)
- Something Nice to Eat (1967)
- Picture to Post (1969)
- The Air My Enemy (1971)
- Never Go With Strangers (1971)
References 1. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jun/15/sarah-erulkar|title=Sarah Erulkar obituary|website=The Guardian|last1=McGahan|first1=Katy|date=15 June 2015|access-date=11 December 2016}}
General references- {{cite book|last2=McGahan|first2=Katy|last1=Cranston|first1=Ros|date=2010|chapter=Science and society : Peter de Normanville, Sarah Erulkar|title=Shadows of progress: documentary film in post-war Britain|editor1-last=Russell|editor1-first=Patrick|editor2-last=Piers Taylor|editor2-first=James|publisher=Palgrave McMillan|isbn= 9781844573226}}
- {{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/1397348|title=Erulkar, Sarah (1923–)|last1=McGahan|first1=Katy|website=BFI Screenonline|access-date=11 December 2016}}
- {{cite web|url=http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/obituaries/article4468842.ece|title=Sarah Erulkar|website=The Times|date=13 June 2015|access-date=11 December 2016}}
- {{cite web|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/cultural-capital/2010/11/british-documentary-films-john|title=Shadows of Progress: NS media partnership with the BFI|date=5 November 2010|access-date=11 December 2016|last1=Gratza|first1=Agnieszka|website=New Statesman}}
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