Made two films working out at 2.5 to 1 ratio. Working for The Mining Review, Film Workshop and the GPO, worked as cameraman on The Aldermaston March (1957) being directed by Karel Reisz, made various documentaries, put a ‘proposition’ to the BBC for a film wanted by The Save the Children Fund, which was accepted with ACT’s permission he went to Korea single-handed with his own Bolex and 60 x 100 ft rolls of 16mm film. ĭeals with his days with the Central African Film Unit under Alan Izod, working as a Director/Cameraman, 1948-56 When he returned, with the help of Chris Brunel he was able to get his ACT card, scripted a film for Anglo Scottish about Aberdeen, and did the odd work for Mining Review (National Coal Board). On his return he made a film for the FAU and was then offered a job to make a film about the International Students Service this paid him £3.10.0. Sent to Africa with his unit, was captured by the Germans and spent the rest of the war years in Austria and Germany. Being a Quaker, he joined the Friends Ambulance Unit working in London’s East End during the blitz.
When war broke out, Marion Grierson’s Unit, TIDA became the British Council’s Film Unit under A.F. Olwen Vaughan introduced him to Marion Grierson in 1930 and was taken on to her staff, where he joined Alan Izod and Margaret Thomson. He bought himself a 16mm Ensign Kinecam and a projector and proceeded to make movies. Also met Alwyn Vaughan and Basil Wright who suggested he should read Pudovkin’s book on the cinema, which was to become his ‘bible’. Quaker family, went to Sidcot Quaker school, left 1938, tried to get a job in the film industry, met various people including David Lean (ex-Sidcot) who told him not to try.
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