[…] the future Government production in this country based on the National Film Board Canada and it was agreed, the whole […]
[…]ago, one couldn’t tell from this bill. So Danny Angel had a letter written to every single studio all over the world. Because being so many different nationalities, Mischa could have been anywhere in the world if he was still alive. And we eventually got a letter back saying he would love to come an[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…] was thisRodney Giesler 3:51 your university?Christopher Miles 3:52 That was my university years? Yes. I mean, I, I had to do national service. I think it was the last intake of national service. And as I was in rather a hurry to get on my journey, I was 22 but it seemed awfu[…]
[…] served the board I think was five years. And I had gone to classes while I was there. They were they released classes because you were called up for national service. So in order to postpone the national service until your apprenticeship was finished, you had to go to some further education. And my[…]
[…] they shut down at Denham, when he went to the National Film Board of Canada and I think did very well in Canada. But […]
[…]way, it all went well for just six months, because I joined in August of '35 and B&D was largely destroyed and quite a large part of British International Pictures next door, by the fire, the Ostrer[?] fire of February I think it was... '36. So that everything came to a rapid halt. I went home o[…]
[…]ERVIEWER: Oh, sorry to hear that. Yes, and then what happened next? CHARLES SMITH: I shot my first film as a cameraman in 1951. That was for the National Coal Board, and it was a film on fires underground and how to fight them. This was made in the wake of a serious disaster which killed a cons[…]