An absolutely extraordinary man. A renaissance man. Really? Oh, just a marvellous man. Absolutely marvellous. I’m sure he could be different from being marvellous. If he hadn’t done what he does, or if he didn’t manage to get the film we all wanted to get… but a man of so many parts, that was so…
Read MoreBrian Moser on the challenges of filming in remote and challenging conditions
So, did anybody ever get ill? And then what would you do if that was the case? On Disappearing World? Yes. Or were you all so fit and healthy that it didn’t matter? No but flu-type illness, yes, it could knock you out for three days, so who knows, how to deal with a virus……
Read MoreBrian Moser on his first Disappearing World in Colombia
Yes, I will. The Last of the Cuiva. And that… well, the cameraman was Ernie Vincze, and Bruce White was the sound recordist. Dai Vaughan, again, was the editor. It wasn’t the first one we shot; we quite often shot these films three at a time, as it were. Well, I did. I got three…
Read MoreBrian Moser talks about covering the death of Che Guevara and those famous photographs
Every morning when we came into the World in Action office, or certainly I remember doing this, we read the papers, we read the magazines. I’d obviously always been attached to Latin America since I went off first expedition as a geologist, and I found in the Times a tiny little citation saying that it…
Read MoreBrian Moser on his first film as a producer in Basutoland and a lucky escape
The first film I actually produced myself with an experienced crew was a film we made in Basutoland, it was then called Basutoland. In fact, it’s now Lesotho. And Verwoerd, the South African premier, had just died. Actually, I think he died in parliament. And so World in Action sent me out to get reactions…
Read MoreBrian Moser describes an early World in Action
An interesting World in Action I did then, it was probably before your time. The Americans had one of these special sort of spy aeroplanes that were continuously going around up in the sky, very, very high up. And I don’t know how we got to know this, but it had to be refuelled, and…
Read MoreBrian Moser on one of the first important films he made at Granada about the effects of smoking
Well, I made some very interesting and quite an important film then, with a director called Ken Ashton. And it was a one-hour, maybe it was more even, maybe 70 minutes or something, special on bronchitis and its prevalence in the north, in the industrial areas, but all over Britain. And Ken knew what he…
Read MoreBrian Moser transcript
Interview with Brian Moser on June 22, 2020 So just kind of start at the very beginning. Tell me, what year did you join Granada? Can you remember? 1964. Right. And you were a geologist by training or by, in terms of your academic background. So how did you get to join the television company?…
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