[…]. I joined ‘What’s New’. And it was jolly interesting [b]cause the had the new Ford Cortina coming off the production line; they were new scientific things mostly, but they could be almost anything. So I learnt a lot then and I started to use film for the first time, 35mm film it w[…]
[…]lassic. So much so that when I was back in New Zealand in 1947, doing some filming with the New Zealand Film Unit, it was the time of the Pan Pacific Scientific Congress - this was a great get together of scientists from all round the Pacific, which meet in one country, a country, a different countr[…]
[…]of these go-ahead salesmen and he - he managed to find out that they wanted someone to - they did have someone but they wanted someone connected with scientific instruments over here. And so he got the job and I went up for an interview, but obviously when I knew everything about it, and we just the[…]
[…]or theextra cost of labour and that is how he arrived at it. He had no idea what I was going todesign for the setRoy Fowler: It's nice to know it was scientifically basedMaurice Carter: How he could hope to know what I was going to do with the design, orwhat the director was going to say to me, the […]
[…]vironmental project to eliminate those extra chemical stages and the use of a lot of water. That’s what was achieved. And that resulted in an Academy Scientific and Technical Award, not actually technically an Oscar, but slightly lower grade awards from the Academy. So, I’m the holder of a one twelf[…]
[…] of voice -overs in documentary film -work. All sorts of scientific subjects, = had the most terrible…technic al films a […]
[…]nted to be, because Shell have always had very close relationships with er - various educational organisations in, for example, providing finance for scientific and technical, technological laboratories in schools. And this was the kind of work that they did. And this again, they were very low profi[…]
[…]sound.Manny Yospa 37:38 Did because I was going to mention that the type of lecture was the very latest developments and the latest scientific research on all these things, yes,Albert Critoph 37:58 the the film house where we had our lectures. I belonged to Gaumont &nbs[…]
[…]y the 60s were my prime, if you like, I, it ended with The Physics and Chemistry of Water, which was totally unlike any film I'd ever made, a totally scientific film for, I thought originally for sixth year school, but in fact, they said, when I started to write the script, that 'aim it for first ye[…]
[…]very good ones. They were Western meters. They had a location one and a studio one which was like a great big box. They were very accurate. They were scientific photometers. They measured incident light very accurately. When it became more and more necessary for accurate exposure which modern proces[…]
