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Went to University College London and read history. Joined its film unit in 1948. Got polio in 1949.

…and History, until the war intervened. He first became aware of the documentary film movement whilst in government service. The cinema branch in Melbourne employed a cameraman with a hand cranked 35mm…

…n the Mist  (both 1988) and White Hunter Black Heart (1990). His last film was Havana (also 1990). Peter also left an enduring legacy to railway historians by recording, and therefore p…

…ed out that he was colour blind. In 1955 he joined the National Coal Board Film Unit on the basis of some tentative short films he had made with a local group in his home town of Ashford, Ke…

Yeats and the landscape of Co. Sligo, and Oisin(1970)[2] a film which focuses entirely on the imagery created by the natural world, without either words or music. Both films were nomina…

  Sir Sydney Samuelson CBE (1925 to 2022)The First British Film Commissioner (1991 to 1996)By Derek Threadgall  (A Personal View)I first met Sydney in the 1970s when I was sent to inter…

…m's career unfolded largely in the sphere of the sponsored documentary. He made films for four of its biggest commissioners - the COI, National Coal Board and Shell film units…

…s a British director and producer of documentaries. He worked with the GPO Film Unit from 1936 onwards, and later changed to Crown Film Unit. He directed documentaries such as The …

John Trumper was born on March 7, 1923 in Plymouth, Devon, England. He was a film editor and writer, known for The Italian Job (1969), Get Carter (1971) and Code 7, Victim 5 (1964). He died …

…opher 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 visual fla…