[…]aker 2 4:42 yes, and he did a number of very good documentary films. David, for instance, about a Welsh manner. And he teaches now at the National Film School.Speaker 2 5:04 So I also did a interesting series for NBC. Again, they called it a wisdom series, interviewing elderl[…]
[…]earliest film memory was going to his studio which was Worton Hall at Isleworth which subs, subsequently became the Korder Studio and then became the National Coal Board something or other. I don’t know what it is now. And I can remember as a perhaps five or six years old and being taken to the stud[…]
[…]ssistant director to man called Dallas Bower , who was a highly experimental character man who liked to play around. We made a film at the Teddington National Physical Laboratories and one of the things we did was the see the windmill on which they test out models of air aircraft and I remember bein[…]
[…]known as Peter. I have a feeling it’s because my great-grandparents didn’t have much imagination! 04’26”MS: How would you describe yourself nationality-wise? PW: Welsh. Firmly Welsh. And don’t disturb me during the Wales-England matches – ever! 04’39[…]
[…]uncil estate. But left school 1950. I had two years’ training with the GPO as a telephone engineer, then went into the RAF for two years’ national service, 1952 – 54, and when I came out I went back to the GPO until 1957 when I joined the BBC as a Technical Operator in October 1957. […]
[…]d, but rather had several other contracts. And the next thing I had to do is to make vectors assistant director on two films, both made for the Royal National lifeboat institution. A short film to be directed by Michael are on called Night launch, which is 10 minutes long. And a long film, directed […]
[…]rand climax was the Great Game, the Highlands against theLowlands which took place on Cobbinshaw Loch and then if you got through that we had theInternational. That only happened once in my lifetime, the frost lasted as long as that. It was the1959 frost but it was tremendously exciting.Taylor/Peet:[…]
[…]It would be interesting to see that film wouldn’t it if we could dig it out. I wonder what it was called? I’d like to see that film.AL: Well probably National Film and Television Archive will have it.Yes, they’ll have it, mm.Yes, yes, yes.If we could find the title somehow.Yes, yes, yes.So anyway wh[…]
[…]ded and boring?Alan Lawson: No, no, no, that's fine.David Prosser: He was able to, legally, to stay there, I think, for forty eight hours, under International Law, while he conducted repairs, and after that, he had to put to sea again - otherwise he was breaking International Law. So we had a break […]
