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[…]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 […]

[…]ERVIEWER: Oh, sorry to hear that. Yes, and then what happened next? CHARLES SMITH: I shot my first film as a cameraman in 1951. That was for the National Coal Board, and it was a film on fires underground and how to fight them. This was made in the wake of a serious disaster which killed a cons[…]

[…]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[…]

[…]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:[…]

[…] the future Government production in this country based on the National Film Board Canada and it was agreed, the whole […]

[…]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[…]

[…]t this. I think I was always born to be with pavements. RL:  12:15 I always assume that you, sort of, you'd got, become, involved with National Hunt racing when you lived in Ireland. GM:   12:23 I did, yeah, because my dad used to have a bet. He used to go to the r[…]