[…]ates: 1994-01-20 & 1994-03-24Interviewer: John LegardInterviewee: Rodney GieslerJohn Legard: Rodney, tell us who your parents were, and how you started, and how you got interested in cinema and so on.Rodney Giesler: I was born on the 2nd of February 193I in Manston in Kent, right on the edge of […]
[…]imary school, run by the local council. Standards were very high, discipline was very strict. But then the discipline at home was strict. You know, apart from the silly thing of little children should be seen and not heard. That didn't apply, my old man. I talk like a lord knows what you know. But w[…]
[…] another book that I've got called "Film as a Graphic Art", by Vladimir Nielsen. Rodney Giesler: I never came across […]
[…]eet. James Gilbert has mainly been a producer and director for television and the date is 5 March 1990, File No 130.SIDE 1, TAPE 1John Taylor: Just start at the beginning. When were you born and whereJimmy Gilbert: I was born in Edinburgh in 1923 and my father, he was Irish, he came from the West Co[…]
[…] fortunes where up and down but nevertheless he was reasonably comfortably off, I was at a private school and a grammar school, but everything fell apart about three years before the war and suddenly I was at a council school and I left that council school at the age of 14 very happily being extreme[…]
[…]d Kingston-Upon-Thames. My Dad was a toolmaker, who’s now retired, and my Mum did all sort of jobs to fit in and around myself and my brother, who’s Martin, who’s seven years older than me, so she worked as a playground minder at a school. But by and large she was a part-time copy typist for a milk,[…]
[…] subject, or English Literature but I could do a combined art s. So I went to Leicester when I was […]
[…] I enjoyed the association with other people. I mean the art people that I knew well, the special effects people […]
