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A Life Rewound by Peter Morley
| The RTS has published its first ebook: A Life Rewound by the pioneering TV producer and director Peter Morley can be downloaded here. His heavily illustrated memoir contains 250 pictures. Click here to download part one (2.09MB) Click here to download part two (3.90MB) Click here to download part three (3.36MB) Click here to download part four (2.41MB) (Each part may take a moment to download) Peter Morley’s first job, aged 16, was as a rewind-boy in London’s Dominion Cinema. His rise to editing, and then writing and directing, documentary films was interrupted by the Second World War and four years in a tank. In 1955, as ITV was about to go on the air, Morley took the plunge and joined Associated-Rediffusion as a freelance director/producer. He was responsible for an eclectic mix of programmes, ranging from ITV’s first opera, The Turn of the Screw, to major outside broadcasts such as the state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill, and the memorable Kitty – Return to Auschwitz. Morley also made a host of single documentaries and long-running series, including The Life and Times of Lord Mountbatten, This Week and Women of Courage. He is credited with over 200 titles. In later years he pioneered the first interactive videodiscs, the forerunners of CDs and DVDs. Morley is an RTS Fellow and Silver Medallist and was appointed OBE in 1969. He has a formidable list of national and international television awards to his name. A Life Rewound. 250 illustrations. Copyright Peter Morley 2006 |
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