Timeline

1932-1939 – Pupil – St. Francis de Sales School, Tottenham, London N17.

• Saturday Morning Cinema in the 1930s

1939-1943 – Evacuee during World War Two.

1940-1945 – Pupil – St. Ignatius College London, N15.

1945-1946 – British Movietonews – Office Boy

• 66 Years ago: Movietone News, the first days
• Movietone and the Ministry of Information 1945
• Early Days’ At Movietonenews 1946
• British Movietonews – the process from idea to screen
• The Epsom Derby – 1946 to 1954

1946-1949 – Royal Army Ordnance Corps – Corporal – Technical Clerk Class 1

• A month at Movietone 1948

1949-1956 – British Movietonews – General Office Manager, Foreign Editor.

• A return to civvy street April 1949
• Our first television set 1949
• Wrestling at Harringay 1949
• Death of King George VI – 1952
• Still Pictures 1953 onwards
• A Sound Idea 1953
• The Coronation 1953
• Trooping The Colour 1953
• My Day In Court 1953
• Flight Of The White Heron 1954
  
• Le Mans crash 1955
  
• Cameraman tales: “Only one eye, but what an eye !”
• Thoughts about moving on – 1955

1957-1958 – General Television Corporation – Channel 9 – Senior Film Editor.

• GTV 9 opening night 1957
• In Melbourne Tonight 1957
• A typical newsday at GTV 1957
• “Apart from a good idea, what are you going to do?” 1957
• Pentridge Prison July 1957
• Interviews with Elizabeth Taylor, Murdoch & Milligan 1957
• Focus documentary series GTV9 1957
• GTV Police series 1957
• Editing news and documentary film at GTV9
• Texas Car Theft – GTV9
• The Beer Match: GTV v the ABC 1958
• Queen Mother’s visit to Australia 1958

1958-1961 – Australian Broadcasting Commission – Channel 2 – Supervising Film Editor.

• Job interview ABC 1958
• The Fruit Flyer 1958
• On to directing at ABV2 1958
• Fuel, Food and Fodder 1958
• The Animated Bird ABV2
• A message to Garcia
• Ceres – Mount Elephant ABV2
• For the Religious Department of ABC – Benedictine Monks
• Wedding Day and a combined operation
• Tile Factory 1959
• Arab Stallions film for ABV2
• Malting Grains ABV2
• Delivering hot news or sports very fast 1959
• “You can’t get out of synch in four words” 1959
• “New Designs, Old Traditions” 1959
• Selecting trainee staff at ABV2
• The Follies & an Interview with Tommy Steele 1960
• A Film out of synch 1960
• Programme Distribution in Australia: 1960
• Giving a Lecture on film techniques 1960
• Operation Crowflight 1960 Part 1
• Operation Crowflight 1960 Part Two

1961-1964 – British Movietonews – Assignments Manager.

• Rejoining Movietone 1961
• Betting shops and parking meters 1961
• Movietone FA Cup final coverage
• Tristan Da Cunha 1961
• The Epsom Derby 1961
• A visit to Ascot 1964
• A plane crash at Denham
• The Encyclopaedia Britannica Awards 1962
• Grand National 1962
• “Some guy leaning on a fence” 1962
• Coventry Cathedral May 1962
• Where I was when I heard
• Libyan Earthquake 1963
• The Beatles Come Home

1964-1985 – United Press Movietone Television (UPITN, WTN) Head of Commercial Productions.

• Current Affairs News Service 1964
• Churchill’s funeral – 1965
• Back Screen Projection
• Danger Man 1965
• Meeting a future Prime Minister 1965
• Loch Ness 1966
• Motorsport: Formula 2 1966
• World Cup 1966
• Titanium Corporation Of America 1966
• Motorsport: Monte Carlo Rally 1967 Part One
• Motorsport: Monte Carlo Rally 1967 Part Two
• Out of sync again 1967
• East African Safari Rally 1967
• Editing Roving Report – 1967
• Monte Carlo Rally 1968
• A Meeting In Menton 1968
• East African Safari Rally 1968
• British Grand Prix Brands Hatch 1968
• Dutch Grand Prix Zandfoort 1968
• German Grand Prix 1968
• Italian Grand Prix 1968
• Belgian Grand Prix 1968
• Football film analysis part 1
• Football film analysis part 2
• Time capsule – Rank Hovis McDougall 1969
• This is Your Life: 1969 – 1985
• New Technology from 1970
• Filming the Watney Cup
• Dawson’s Field 1970
• Monte Carlo Rally 1971
• East African Safari Rally 1971
• “Sprite on top of the world” 1971
• The Prudential Trophy England v Australia 1972
• Watney Mann Quizzes 1972
• RAC Rally 1973
• 1973 Safari Rally
• Filming for Analysis” article 1974
• Jordan 1974 part 1 – A journey into the unknown
• Jordan 1974 part 2 – tales of Lawrence
• Jordan 1974 part 3 – visiting Al Jafr & Ma’an
• Jordan 1974 part 4 – Lunch with the King
• Jordan 1974 part 5 – a visit to Petra
• Jordan 1974 part 6 – returning home
• Isfahan – designing an Formula One racetrack 1975
• World Cup Cricket 1975
• The Emirates in 1976 – Our fellow guests
• A film on the life of King Faisal 1976
• The World of Islam Festival 1976
• The Lockheed Scandal and UPITN 1976
• Temple Bar 1976
• King Khaled State Visit to Egypt 1976
• The Emirates in 1976 – doing the deal
• The Emirates in 1976 – arriving in Abu Dhabi
• The Emirates in 1976 – An evening at the Ministry of Information
• The Emirates in 1976 – The trees in the desert
• The Emirates in 1976 – Dining out
• The Emirates in 1976 – Sheik Khalifa Rest House and Al Ain
• The Emirates in 1976 – A “time bomb” and a Bedouin village
• The Emirates in 1976 – The Bedouin family
• The Emirates in 1976 – Abu Dhabi from the air
• The Emirates in 1976 – Home again – the aftermath
• A ‘short film’ for Ramadan 1977
• The Falcons 1977
• A film about the Emirate of Bahrain 1978
• “It’s our future you’re eating” 1979
• King Khaled State Visit to London, Paris & Madrid 1981
• A Case Of Cities UPITN
• Mrs Thatcher visits Foley Street
• Los Angeles Olympics Opening Ceremony 1984
• Filming Los Angeles Olympics 1984

1985-2000 – Co-proprietor of production and post-production company – International Production Services – Producer/Director.

• The Saharoui 1989
  

2000- Retired hurt.

• The 1952 Show BBC (2012)