News on Screen

Wilquin was a Paramount cameraman during the Second World War, whose first credit is for film of Finland in March 1940. Wilquin afterwards worked for Movietone, and filmed two stories in Denmark for British Movietone News - ‘ENGLAND’S SOCCER WIN’ in No.1374A of October 1955, and ‘MARITIME AFFAIRS - FERRY BOAT ICEBREAKER’ in No.1395A of March 1956. He continued to film stories in Scandinavia, and his last credit is for ‘A KING’S BIRTHDAY’ in British Movietone News No.1554 of March 1959.

Sources

BUFVC, British Paramount News files, NR 9460 (March 1940?), and NR 9484 (March 1940?): L. Pontecorvo ‘The British Newsreel Companies: Staffing 1910-1945,' in J. Ballantyne (ed) ‘Researcher’s Guide to British Newsreels’ (BUFVC, 1983), p.93: NoS Number 22918; British Movietone News Number 1554; Date released 16/3/1959.