[…]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[…]
[…]projects, amateur films, that you have worked on which you’d like to share your experiences with us?TE: In BBC days we did a big job for the Scottish National Film Archives. This would have been some ten/twelve year ago now, which was basically a deal which was struck for the BBC to digitise pretty […]
[…]ittle about it all. Well, as I suppose common with those times, my father was in advertising. And he was handling a lot of advertising campaigns, the National Savings and things like that. And he came in contact with a gentleman who was actually in charge of sponsoring these wartime National Savings[…]
[…] Command the trumpeters come onto the stage apron to - on top of the closing captions - and the stage apron comes up with the organ, and it plays the national anthem. Well first of all there's the heralds, and then the national anthem. And the arrangement was you closed the screen tabs and then foll[…]
[…]d, but rather had several other contracts. And the next thing I had to do is to make vectors assistant director on two films, both made for the Royal National lifeboat institution. A short film to be directed by Michael are on called Night launch, which is 10 minutes long. And a long film, directed […]
[…]ut at Pinewood was a very important stage. So who was your next contact?Rodney Giesler: I left Pangbourne when I was 17 and a half. Of course one had National Service coming up then. I tried to get in the Navy, but they weren't taking anyone except as stokers. I waited for my call-up to come. In the[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]ssistant director to man called Dallas Bower , who was a highly experimental character man who liked to play around. We made a film at the Teddington National Physical Laboratories and one of the things we did was the see the windmill on which they test out models of air aircraft and I remember bein[…]
[…]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[…]
