Search Results for: Scientific Films

[…]s and I joined the meteorological office, first off. I’d always had an interest in the weather and weather forecasting so I got a job as an assistant scientific officer with the Met Office and was posted to their headquarters in Bracknell, as it was then, and I found myself in the department that de[…]

[…]rocess devised at Pinewood. At the end of the war Mr. Rank, J. Arthur Rank, thought that British films needed mechanising - almost mechanising - more scientific. He got a gang of scientists from Watson Watt, the radar men, down to Pinewood to make filmmaking more scientific and it was called Indepen[…]

[…]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[…]

[…]t into radio having set up my own amateur station at, at Upper Richmond Road in Putney. And when the time came for work I simply wrote to the Marconi Scientific Instrument Company, and said, "Could I be of any value to them?" And surprise, surprise I was immediately given a job!Alan Lawson &nbs[…]

[…]aces where it shouldn’t be. There are anecdotes about Nitrate Won’t Wait, about such campaigns around the world. There are few rather more thoroughly scientific things about the history of nitrate film, the history of the replacement of nitrate with acetate. What else? All sorts, there is something […]

[…]yes, now in the war also, I did do…I suppose, I started doing a lot of… because of radio, a lot of voice-overs in documentary film-work. All sorts of scientific subjects, I had the most terrible…technical films and films on education. In fact, my first film was for someone (now a great friend) calle[…]