[…] record back was co directing with Anthony Bushnell and that took place at metal photo studios and I had to leave before the film was finished. Do my national service. And I spent two, two years out of the business completely in the RAF. In fact, I, after three weeks in the RAF, the Korean War start[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]n life. But as a result of their success making advertising films they teamed up again in 1923, and raised sufficient money through what was then the National Provinicial Bank and CM Wolf, to make a film called "Woman to Woman" Roy Fowler 10:47 Yes. Jonathan Balcon 10:49 […]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]acturers and I started to travel the City of London with my heart in my mouth. And then came the war and the whole thing collapsed. And being Italian nationals we were immediately interned -RF : Where were you interned.GC: Isle of Man. I was, we're talking 1940, I was born in 1915, there it is . Tha[…]
[…] films there. Then I went back to...er Elstree, to British National...er, back to er...[sneezes]'scuse me, errm...Yes I finished Sound City, […]
[…] extraordinary thing was that the M of I under the National Government, approved the film and approved the money to […]
[…] extraordinary thing was that the M of I under the National Government, approved the film and approved the money to […]
