[…] 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 […]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…];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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
