Harry Watt
J was just a brash, overbearing, cheeky and opinionated youngster who unexpectedly got the chance to make films ...
Born in Edinburgh in 1906, HARRY WATT joined John Grierson 's newly formed Empire Marketing Board film unit in 1931. Of that original group of realist film directors, Watt has had one of the longest and most varied careers, ranging from his first government-sponsored documentaries to the large-scale commercial features he directed for Ealing Studios.
Tonight he looks back over his life's work and shows some of his own favourite sequences from the films he directed, including: Night Mail (1936), North Sea (1938), Squadron 992 (1940), Target for Tonight (1941), The Overlanders (1946), and Where No Vultures Fly (1951). At Ealing Studios he talks to actor GORDON JACKSON , who made his first screen appearance in Harry Watt 's Nine Men (1942).
Film cameraman EUGENE CARR Film editor PETER SYMES
Executive producer NORMAN SWALLOW Director TONY STAVEACRE