[…]l kids, you know, that kind of thing. It really wasn't a good thing. And quite honestly, the best thing that happened to me, I think, was joining the film industry. Next best thing was coming to Hampstead (laughter) which was very relaxed... About colour and religion. 03:57At school did you hav[…]
[…]and strangely enough even though he used to fight against the cinema, you know, he really couldn't stand the cinema, on principle. But he had certain films he loved to go and see again and again with Harry Bower in it for example. He didn't like the films and when I went into the films he was absolu[…]
[…]ter City School which is just off Victoria St.AL: After that did you do any specialised training?SC : I did nothing that prepared me for my career in filmDuring the normal course of education in secondary School I got interested in drama and with a couple of friends founded to.e school dramatic soci[…]
[…]like to do is start right at the very beginning. We'd like to talk right through your life and your work in the world of archives and other things in film.AF: Okay.MW: But let's start at the very beginning: where abouts were you born? AF: I was born on a farm called Old Montrose four miles outs[…]
[…]was Alexander corder that came to call basically and said he was he was Hungarian and the Jewish. I'd like you to write the music for this particular film. I can't remember the name of the film that film but he did a lot of films for Alexander Calder. And during that period of time from 1933 I mean […]
[…]a century. I know you started off in the camera department became a cameraman. And that you ended up as the producer of those specialised films 50 years is quite time, how did it all begin?John Wiles 0:43 Well, I suppose it began really with my, as a kid I had an interest in […]
[…]or I just in the I got the impression I was a little nap processing. It was a release print 916 mail. It rejoiced and then in the name of substantive film finish limited substandard definition. It is now film Magic and much more respectable but it was at the top end of Dean Street under OK. I had an[…]
[…];Ostend and across in the vote. And um anyhow uh. When the war started the film industry of course virtually came to a standstill shooting at Cannon. I think&nb[…]
[…]n 1920, May, in Rugby in Warwickshire. And my father kept a photographic chemist's shop. And so we had, uh, sold cameras, and I served customers with films and loaded the cameras. [laughter] I was the boy for all the people who'd bought expensive cameras and then had to get a shop assistant to load […]
[…]43 Part One[00:00:09]PF: Well first off, thank you Chris for taking part in the interview today. I think we should begin where your interests in film and photography developed and perhaps your first experiences with colour photography. Perhaps as an amateur in your early life.CM: Well I always […]
