[…]born, where you were born, born in Berlin, right? Charlotte? Yes, but my father came from Vienna. And mother came from Strasbourg, so it's quite international setup, mother being half French, half German, because Strasbourg always changed hands every two or three times in 100 years, depending who wa[…]
[…]y television service had the most wonderful orchestra and a musical director, who if he had lived would certainly have become one of the leading international conductors of this century - Hyam Greenbaum. And he, he decided to re-score the work and Cecil Gray, who was a close friend of his and a[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]idn’t he?
I thought it was later than that. I don’t remember him around until...
[inaudible] that time.
Yes, maybe.
As I say, I think the National Provincial suddenly decided enough was enough.
Yes. Yah.
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I was curious whether your uncle, what his primary motivation was[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…] extraordinary thing was that the M of I under the National Government, approved the film and approved the money to […]
