News on Screen

Jo Jago was born in Cornwall, and entered the film industry in 1934, as assistant with the GPO Film Unit. In 1936 Jago joined Strand Films, and after the outbreak of war he worked as cameraman on a number of Ministry of Information films, including These Children Are Safe (1940), Neighbours Under Fire (1940), Tank Patrol (1941), and Our Country (1944). From 1947 he acted as director of photography on a series of documentaries and features. Jago was also a cameraman with the Pathe News, whose first credit is as part of the camera team that filmed ‘THE LAST JOURNEY (KING’S FUNERAL)' for No.52/15 in February 1952. Jago covered the passage of the funeral train through Iver, although his footage does not seem to have been used in the release version. Jago was also credited as filming ‘PATHE NEWS SPECIAL: Royal river pageant’ for No.53/56 in July 1953, and a Manchester local ‘TRAIN CRASH’ for adding to No.53/63 in August 1953. In 1955 Jago became director of photography for Pathe Pictures.

Sources

P. Noble (ed) ‘British Film Yearbook 1949-50’ (London, 1949), p.582: P. Noble (ed) ‘British Film and Television Year Book 1956/57’ (London, 1956), p.176.