Part 41976 and beyond Flushed with the glow of the success of “South Africa, the Best Kept Secret,” I kept in touch with SATour. I expected that I would receive further commissions from them, although in the back of my mind I was worried that X could still seek some revenge. In fact, he did. […]
Part 41976 and beyond Looking back on my working life, I liken it to a rollercoaster. There was a constant stream of highs that usually appeared out of the blue, followed by lows that cut me down to size. It’s not in my nature to have enormous regrets, although from time to time I did […]
Part 41976 and beyond For some time I had been keen to write a novel. However, the reality was that I spent so much time looking for freelance film work, then doing whatever came up, that I could not find either enough time or have the required dedicated attention to a storyline, including of course […]
Part 31966–1976 I think most South Africans regard the Cape Province, and in particular Cape Town and its surroundings, as one of the most beautiful places on earth. So when Sven secured the film on wine with KWV (the wine co-operative), I thought I’d died and was on my way to Heaven! The combination of […]
Part 31966–1976 Going freelance sounded great. No overbearing bosses, no daily insistence on arrival on time at a studio every day, above all no internal politics. One slight problem, however, no work! It took a couple of months before I landed a small job. I was asked to write and direct a short period film, […]
Part 2 continued1956–1966 In earlier blogs I did write about how I met my wife Hero whom I met in 1965 and married in 1966. I want to expand this period here as it has had a profound and positive affect on the rest of my life. We will soon have been married sixty years […]
Part 2 continued1956–1966 I was invited to join the Filmlets scriptwriting team and started the following week. I found it strange that the writers were not located in or around Killarney Film Studios where all the commercials and other films were shot. Once I had settled in, I began to realize the primary reason for […]
Part 2 continued1956–1966 I still had some money left by the time we finished the picture, and I spent a few weeks frankly dithering about I should do next. Dennis suggested that I take some still photos for his company, Crown Studios. He sent me to photograph a young woman in one of the farming […]
Part 2 continued1956–1966 Looking back on my life I now realize that my career consisted of wild swings between my involvement in film or television and finding myself in some remarkably isolated parts of our planet. As I wandered around in the Namib, I became aware of the utter silence of the desert. In fact, […]
Part 2 continued1956–1966 Despite the exhausting routine of driving a cab at night and filming by day, both Dennis and I felt that the little movie was progressing well. However, I was shocked when Dennis called me one morning. He apologized profusely and said that there was a urgent matter that he had to sort […]