[…]. And the rushes were so exciting. It all came alive. And this was only a test.John Legard: Early cinema verité.Rodney Giesler: Yes. But the sense of liberation. It was synch, on demand. We didn't have the internal synching: the buzzer and flashing light. We were using television technique before te[…]
[…]so on. And just nature of the work.John Hargreaves  32:36  documentary those days, if I can pick you up on those, I think it was one of the Liberation's of British transport that we could work from transports rather, treatments rather than so called executive scripts, which rarely correspo[…]
[…]s that all the men like him who were away in the war for like two, three years came back having missed home so much that there was almost like a mini liberation movement for a very short time so that he, in all our lives brought us up equally. He had the money primarily, but when it came to like chi[…]
[…]t of Europe we were looking at. And then one morning we were sitting there with a dope sheet with Belsen on it. And this was the first footage of the liberation of the camp, and none of us knew what we were in for.There had been absolutely no publicity, and I reckon that the five of us sitting in th[…]
[…]nt down the road and we came out after the fall of Mandalay, came back to England. The next thing I did as far as I can remember, I went out with the liberation troops for Norway and that was quite an experience. We left Great Dunmo one night, VE Day had happened but no British troops had arrived in[…]
[…]half a dozen of us we went and joined up with this American unit and from there joined up with General Éclair of the Free French and we went into the Liberation of Paris and filmed that which was a wonderful occasion, I shall never forget it. It was very difficult to go back to the war afterwards.Fr[…]
[…]e dying months of The Second World War, really after the advancing allied forces began to uncover some of the Nazi atrocities and above all after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, and Sidney Bernstein had the feeling that a documentary film should be made to the highest possible forensic standards to[…]
