[…] 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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]mbargo on assistance watching other people's rushes. That was a studio rule which I happen to transgress at one time and got severely hauled over the coals for the discipline at Ealing was exactly that of a public school.SPEAKER: M1So one was I since I'd been to a public school I knew exactly how to[…]
[…] 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 […]
[…]idn’t he?
I thought it was later than that. I don’t remember him around until...
[inaudible] that time.
Yes, maybe.
As I say, I think the National Provincial suddenly decided enough was enough.
Yes. Yah.
[0:10:09]
I was curious whether your uncle, what his primary motivation was[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]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[…]
[…] I was 17 and a half. Of course one had National Service coming up then. I tried to get in […]
