[…] through labs or through somewhere. Well, I decided not on labs, so I went and gained, well technical knowledge. I went as a senior technician to the national coward research unit under Dr Bronowski, where I then, again utilized all my cinematic skills, again as a caring man, mostly working on very […]
[…]n the films he was in.Well, after reverse Oh yes. at Riverside the dreaded note came back and said you've left the craft Film Unit where you're doing national service will you please report production national national service again so Icalled them up called a marshal and remember, we were sending M[…]
[…] traced because all the records are at Berkhampstead in the National Film and Television Archive, so you joined when, in […]
[…]membership up for years afterwards.RF: Well if we know the year you were born, it could be traced because all the records are at Berkhampstead in the National Film and Television Archive, so you joined when, in '42 would you say?LK: YesRF: Well if anyone wants to they can go through the '42 applicat[…]
[…]alk about – when did you join up?HF: I was called up in 1944. But not the air force. I opened up the letter, I nearly fainted – I was called into the coal mines as a Bevin Boy. I did everything I knew to get out of it, paying a solicitor in Brixton, but although they sympathised with me they said “i[…]
[…]which was called the New Zealand Public Relations Council. It was, it was a public relations job, sponsored by the New Zealand Wool Marketing... International Wool Secretariat, by the New Zealand Meat Board, New Zealand Fruit Board and the New Zealand Dairy Board. The head of it was a Labour MP call[…]
[…]ve a row with...Charles Wilder: Oh that sort of thing! Oh well that was Harry Saltzman!John Taylor: Hmm.Charles Wilder: That is when I worked for the National Film Finance Corporation, for three months. That was at the end of a film for Foxwell and I did three months there and I couldn't stand it so[…]
[…] got things to think about." He'd been told by the National Film Finance Corporation that if he didn't get me […]
[…]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 […]
