[…]. 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[…]
[…] Early cinema verité. Rodney Giesler: Yes. But the sense of liberation. It was synch, on demand. We didn't have the […]
[…]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[…]
[…] we have got used to in the last 40 years didn’t exist, there was no National Film School and there was no National Film Theatre, not much writing on films. Certainly the whole business of film criticism which now exists, what as a vice really, every magazine has its film critic whether or not they […]
[…] there was no National Film Theatre, not much writing on films. Certainly the whole business of film criticism which now […]
[…]ting?VG: No.RF: Not even in school plays.VG: That came later in my teens when I went into, I went on stage to start with and then I did odd things in films for Warner Brothers and BIP [British International Pictures] and I worked a lot with Lupino Lane.RF: Just to wrap up on school did you have any […]
[…]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[…]
[…] a regular filmgoer, although increasingly he felt dissatisfied by the films commercially exhibited. By the early 1930s he was involved […]
[…]and beauty in the theatre and doing the jolly things that weren't acting at work. So the war of a node that bargain and I had been very interested in films, which had been really one of the things although music was the principal here, and I'd also been very interested in films, I can remember produ[…]
[…]athan Balcon 9:43 CM Wolf sorry, CM Wolf yes, I do get names wrong. He formed with Victor Saville a production company making advertising films. This was in 1919 and it was not unnaturally called The Victory Motion Picture Company. And Victor Saville himself was also a Birmingham boy and[…]
