[…]sp;sue.malden@btinternet.com.Jim Clark Side 1======================================= SPEAKER: M1Right. This is about James Clark a distinguished film editor preferred to be called Jim actually rather than to say that from now on I'll call you Jim. For the record James. Yes yes. Anyway Jim yes w[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]. My first school was a convent school, which was far too Catholic for my Catholic parents. And so they cut me out for that and put me in a non denominational school. And I was nondenominational until I went to, at the behest of the bishop, I think, kill Catholic college, which is one of the big Cat[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] you zoomed all that way. Do you remember seeing a National Film Board of Canada cartoon called "Cosmic Zoom"? Starts off the same way, […]
[…] four hours of training at night during the week and used for hours about the time. Weekends on point duty or patrol work or something as part of the national effort in 1938. Between 38 and 39 was a very bad time for me because there simply wasn't any film being made you might get the day's work. Ag[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]ly was quite famous for photographing these lovely girls. And the Daily Mirror approach approached him and said that they were running the first international world beauty competition. They were looking for the most beautiful girl in the world. And the competition was already underway. And they aske[…]
[…]o into partnership with The NFA as it was at that time, but relations weren’t great between Ernest Lindgren, Curator of the NFA – MW: That’s the National Film Archive. RS: That’s the National Film Archive.- and my ultimate bosses, the Director and Deputy Director at the IWM. So we ended up[…]
