[…]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[…]
[…]. 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[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]n the films he was in.Well, after reverse Oh yes. at Riverside the dreaded note came back and said you've left the craft Film Unit where you're doing national service will you please report production national national service again so Icalled them up called a marshal and remember, we were sending M[…]
[…] costume sketches (held in the Special Collections of the BFI National Archive) and the films to which she contributed, promotional […]
[…]nds of things went through my mind. So you won't believe it. The other one came to me is on the same. Now I heard afterwards it was a Dodge to escape national service. If you're a little narrower, whether they were just playing it up because they had to I don't know. But anyway, the one the second o[…]
[…]at Lime Grove.Eventually, all this time, 1938 nobody was doing anything about up war, all of us couldsee it coming and probably foolishly Ijoined the National Fire Service, so two evenings aweek I had to become fireman, pretend to be a fireman. So as soon as war was announcedI was actually put on fu[…]
[…]ack to L.A. did you. You didn't go straight back to L.A.. No I.SPEAKER: M5I always wanted to go to look at them.SPEAKER: M8Guys I saw pictures in the National Geographic of the temples of the tax and the mail.SPEAKER: M10In the end was the I.SPEAKER: M2So I thought well I'll go back to Los Angeles b[…]
