Rodney Giesler 0:09 This is an interview with Christopher miles, recorded for the BECTU oral history project by Rodney Giesler in Wiltshire on March the 31st 1995. Reel one,I mightask you when you were born, Christopher Miles 0:28 right, I was born 19, April 39, in Londo[…]
[…]ch we were doing. I mean we were making programmes for television the sponsored programmes. And we weren't based on my shelf background. There was no advertising on them. It was rather look. I took the view of Bristol Sydney. We were the engines for the industry. We had to beat Rolls-Royce who were […]
[…]I mean, what did girls do in those days, secretarial work. I went to Pitman's Training College, and from there, went into... my first job was with an advertising agency. Strange, had nothing to do with commercials in those days. So commercials were almost not thought of at all. I think there was a s[…]
[…]man was a so called controlling officer in those days at the COI. And with the structure of the ground filming it was that the COI acted as a kind of advertising agency. And our actual clients were the various government departments Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Health and so on. And he acted a[…]
[…];36:27 is clever advertised, but this costs a lot of money. And now work can easily double the cost of the negative, you know, by adding in its advertising, breadcrumb. And the publicity in the television slot alone, you're looking at 1000s for a few seconds, you know, those details the pays o[…]
[…]ckendrick, who directed it, was an extremely visual director, which is the sort of kind that obviously I would prefer to work with. He started off in advertising and he was a most marvellous - or is a most marvellous draughtsman. And he did the most lovely continuity sketches for 'Saraband' when he […]
[…]ints for France, Germany, Italy and Spain; Pathe Pictorial every week (650 in total); 2 COI magazines (Carousel and Roundabout); Rank Screen Services advertising (100-500 copies); major sporting events for Pathe; 180 million feet a year.00:18:00 – 00:26:40 What you need to make a Technicolor film; y[…]
