[…]had some association with the colonial... but you’ll find thatout. Anyway, and then when he came back to England again after that he went down to the National Coal Board research place near Cheltenham, Stoke Orchard, as a scientific film photographer there. And through that and his other things[…]
[…]cognize it as a factor in my mental makeup that I'm not particularly coherent in my in my range of attitudes about crucial things – war, peace, love, nationalism and so on you know.Colin Moffat: Of course I heard you mention it but because of your very much later large film about the army, the thesi[…]
[…];Working for it you know working with a Swiss company in London perhaps an international company anyway. But anyway having arrived at Cambridge I then joined the Fil[…]
[…] full tide of the unit I was with was the National Coal Board Technical Film Unit. And we did all the technical […]
[…]ut at Pinewood was a very important stage. So who was your next contact?Rodney Giesler: I left Pangbourne when I was 17 and a half. Of course one had National Service coming up then. I tried to get in the Navy, but they weren't taking anyone except as stokers. I waited for my call-up to come. In the[…]
[…] DSMW: Well although we didn’t call our first interview the first one, with David Francis, this is our second interview with archivists from the National Film and Television Archive in the UK.The copyright in this recording is vested in the British Entertainment History Project and the name of […]
[…] Francis, this is our second interview with archivists from the National Film and Television Archive in the UK . The […]
[…] UK’s oldest Film Societies from their base at Film House in Randolph Crescent. This building also served as the HQ base for the Edinburgh International Film Festival and Films of Scotland which acted as a sort of national liaison contact for film companies planning shoots involving Scottish l[…]
[…]bunch of – you know, beyond the Ritz - I've never seen anything like it, right. So the eyes are being opened up: broadcasting; meeting every European nationality some of them couldn't speak English. Putting out news talks in Czecho-Slovak, in Polish, German, French no problem. Spanish. We weren’t do[…]
