[…]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[…]
[…]de up to Assistant, so Paul was...Paul was er focus pulling...Errm... and I did a couple of 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, then I went back to Elstree, cos Jimmy had moved during the war up t[…]
[…] was thisRodney Giesler  3:51  your university?Christopher Miles  3:52  That was my university years? Yes. I mean, I, I had to do national service. I think it was the last intake of national service. And as I was in rather a hurry to get on my journey, I was 22 but it seemed awfu[…]
[…]art in the sport the sporting item in third February 63.Sorry, I stopped in on the 24th of November 63. We did a short caption item on the exhibition National Portrait Gallery called the winter Queen about Elizabeth of Bohemia. James the first's eldest daughter and this was written by Roy? Strong la[…]
[…] wasJohn P Hamilton  5:38  it from that job, then? You did? We both have an area. I was ahead of you because I'm older you are, but you did national service.Gerald Chambers  5:49  Yes, I was in the, in the Air Force from 1945 to 1948. I had been at Newton chambers studying accoun[…]
[…]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 […]
[…] 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[…]
[…]rand climax was the Great Game, the Highlands against theLowlands which took place on Cobbinshaw Loch and then if you got through that we had theInternational. That only happened once in my lifetime, the frost lasted as long as that. It was the1959 frost but it was tremendously exciting.Taylor/Peet:[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] called?Tom Peacock: My one?Sidney Cole: Hmm.Tom Peacock: The NO...er...I've seen it forty years and I cant' even think of the name! The NACK...NOAP, National Association...something of Plasterers. I've got the tickets upstairs. Oh no, and I think our contribution was sixpence a week when I first jo[…]
