[…]was nothing you just had it or you didn't have it. She persuaded me in the end to go into the airforce instead of chasing after this rainbow was that national service.SPEAKER: M7No you volunteered. No I volunteered in 19 1956 I volunteered.SPEAKER: M3To go into the airforce for a career because my m[…]
[…]rn a little bit about real things about elephants. It was a funny film, too. However, when we got there, we were going to work in a park called Tsavo National Park,[96] which is where two remarkable people lived called Daphne and David Sheldrick.[97] David had already started, and she looked after o[…]
[…]don't know how much to do, so much in a comparatively short period, but still, I did. Ed Goran stick had been asked to form a film unit for the newly nationalized surface transport, industries, railways, canals, roads. What have you got? And was given a lot of power and a lot of budget and told to g[…]
[…]orking toRobert Angel 9:16 I was working with an editor called bill Freeman, who was younger than I was that escaped the war but had done national service. And he was a very that and he was a very, very calm, experienced editor. You couldn't want a better teacher. For me. I've lost touch[…]
[…] y they have a copy of that film at the National Museum of Photography at Bradford, they wheel it out […]
[…] extraordinary thing was that the M of I under the National Government, approved the film and approved the money to […]
[…] extraordinary thing was that the M of I under the National Government, approved the film and approved the money to […]
[…]t think it achieved very much in its life. My first contact with Carl Foreman was on a film called The Mouse that Roared which was a skit on the international scene with the Americans meeting the Russians and things like that. It was quite a good film, lots of sound effects any rate. Much more sound[…]
[…] think is a milestone and that was the foundation of the story documentary - started with 'Bill Blewitt' and confirmed by 'North Sea', which got international acclaim wherever it went, because it was a really true slice of life...and edited beautifully by McNaughtonJohn Legard: Right! Yes! Marvellou[…]
This material is the copyright of the ACTT History Project, Daphne Anstey widow of Edgar, editor with the National Film Board of Canada under her maiden name, Lily, interviewers JohnLegard [JL] and Gloria Sachs [GS], recorded in her home, in Hampstead Garden Suburb, 3 May 1989. Recordist Alan […]
