Search Results for: British Film Institute

…nice poster boards all over the country, do you remember them?SP: Yes I do. Buy British goods and all that.JT: Well, they did that but there were quite a lot of very good artists who were commissioned…

Derek Williams (born 20 August 1929) was a British documentary film director and writer who was active from the 1950s until 1990. His films received four BAFTAs and five  Oscar nom…

…to camera construction and publications. A protégé of Raymond Spottiswoode, the British pioneer credited with having coined the term 3-D, Charles rode the crest of Britain’s 3-D cinema wave in the 195…

… Board where he first met John Grierson and many of the great and famous in the British documentary film movement. The year was 1932, about the time of his sixteenth birthday.The organisation was mana…

…rty . After Data, he was offered a job by Edgar Anstey in the newly formed British Transport as a staff director. He also filmed the first sequences about marine radar aboard the Maid or Orleans,…

…ed. Mr Broom helped him gain his first employment in the film industry with the British Film Institute Film Appreciation Department in London. His appointment followed a meeting arranged by Mr Broom w…

…ed. Mr Broom helped him gain his first employment in the film industry with the British Film Institute Film Appreciation Department in London. His appointment followed a meeting arranged by Mr Broom w…

Christopher John Miles (19 April 1939 – 15 September 2023) was an influential British film director, producer, and screenwriter, known for bringing literary sensibilities, emotional subtlety, and visu…

… of the great names in the documentary movement, and the very high standards of British movie making resulting from it.There was no work to be had in London on their return – he had been away from the…

…nbsp;COI, National Coal Board and Shell film units and British Transport Films - as well for less prolific sponsors such as Cable & Wireless, for whom he worked …