[…] 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[…]
[…]sp;46:39  So you providing a very considerable service. Yeah.Speaker 3  46:43  And then all of a sudden, across the summer, decided to nationalize the railways. Right? And Jock brevnerUnknown Speaker  46:49  940, 740-949-4090,Unknown Speaker  46:54  yes, 49 IUnknow[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]because when I got out at Shorncliffe it was very much the hubbub of normal kind of boring life of people, and of course the war had ended as I said, national service hadn't started, it was just plain conscription or volunteering so you didn't know when you was coming out. And there was nothing orga[…]
[…]an assessment the valuation. Double which is not. Very nice man. And I got an offer I couldn't refuse from meaningful use of film a studio manager of National Park after. 18 months. And then was producing.SPEAKER: F7So that was the end of the business story. So in partnership but I think we're just […]
[…]used to dress up in Victorian gear...SF: Yes.And go round Europe in this 1928 Alvis.SF: Yes.And do things. So we’d go and open, I think we opened The National Film Archive in Brussels.SF: Ah, ha.And we went to Stockholm. And I remember going to Berlin because I’d never, youknow, I’d never been abroa[…]
[…]ne who was prepared to experiment and make this, make this work. And we were very lucky to find Diane Tammes who had just graduated recently from the National Film School and had specialised in sixteen millimetre camera and I think she was probably the first woman who got a union ticket as, as a cin[…]
[…]bsp;in the paper for. An office boy or Junius junior officers system wanted for National Screen services and I saw them that obviously they made fire screens or […]
[…], they never taught you to say, I want a boot with a bangle on it, on a 30 foot roster, a lotUnknown Speaker  31:44  of that words are international.Speaker 2  31:45  I suppose some of them are actually maybe International, but international doesn't go as far as German.Unknown Sp[…]
