Dave Berry (January 2010)

Sadly the death has been anounced of Dave Berry, one of the contributors to the Who's Who of Victorian Cinema book and this website with his entry on Welsh film pioneer Arthur Cheetham. Dave was the great chronicler of Welsh cinema, author of the magisterial Wales and Cinema: The First Hundred Years (1994). This work champions the pioneers of Weksh cinema, including those such as Birt Acres who first brought film to the principality. He was an unquenchable enthusiast for every aspect of early cinema, one who backed up his enthusiasms with definitive reference works, screenings, events and constant persuasive advocacy. He will be much missed.