In Development
TERRICIDE
THE MAN FROM AFRICAR
Producer (co-producer)
1987
A CAR FOR AFRICA
5-part, 60 min. episodes, documentary series for TV
Channel 4 television, UK.
1984
B25 – MITCHELLS DO FLY IN IMC
75 min. TV documentary
Channel 4 television, UK.
1976
THE NEW BRITAIN
THE MIDDLE EAST AND OIL
IRELAND
THE NEW EUROPE
Audio visual Film strips, Encyclopaedia Britannica
1976
PEOPLE OF THE WIND (co-producer)
2 hr. wide-screen 4 track Dolby feature documentary
Distribution: USA theatrical market and International
art-house market
Beautifully restored DVD available from Milestone
Films, USA.
1975
Genevieve de Brabant (co-producer)
Short animated film. Puppet opera by Erik Satie.
Directed by David Koff.
1974
THE BAKHTIARI MIGRATION (co-producer)
60 min. and 30 min TV and non-theatrical
World TV and non-theatrical and educational markets
– especially US.
1973
SHUSHA (co-producer)
30 minute TV music film
BBC 2. World TV and non-theatrical and educational
markets
1973
THE SHEEP MUST LIVE (co-producer)
60 minute television documentary special
BBC World About Us
1976
BLACK MAN’S LAND Feature documentary (co-producer)
150 minute cinema feature documentary
1974
BLACK MAN’S LAND 3-part series (co-producer)
3-part, 60-minute episodes, TV and non-theatrical
series
(Also made in 3-part 30 minute version)
All world TV markets incl. USA PBS International
educational resource.
Part 1. WHITE MAN’S COUNTRY
Part 2. Mau Mau
Part 3. Kenyatta
1960
FENLAND FLOOD PROTECTION
40 min. industrial and educational documentary
Director (co-director)
1987
A CAR FOR AFRICA
1984
B25 – MITCHELLS DO FLY IN IMC
1976
THE NEW BRITAIN
THE MIDDLE EAST AND OIL
IRELAND
THE NEW EUROPE
Audio visual Film strips for Encyclopaedia
Britannica
1976
PEOPLE OF THE WIND
1974
THE BAKHTIARI MIGRATION
1973
SHUSHA (co-director)
1973
THE SHEEP MUST LIVE
1976
BLACK MAN’S LAND Feature documentary (co-Director)
1974
BLACK MAN’S LAND 3-part series (co-Director)
Part 1. WHITE MAN’S COUNTRY
Part 2. Mau Mau
Part 3. Kenyatta
1960
FENLAND FLOOD PROTECTION
On-camera
Presenter
1987
A CAR FOR AFRICA
Commentator
1987
A CAR FOR AFRICA
1984
B25 – MITCHELLS DO FLY IN IMC
1976
THE NEW BRITAIN
THE MIDDLE EAST AND OIL
IRELAND
THE NEW EUROPE
Audio visual Film strips for Encyclopaedia
Britannica
1976
Lion Country Safari – game warden
1976
Introduction to PEOPLE OF THE WIND
1974
THE BAKHTIARI MIGRATION
30 min TV and non-theatrical version
Original
Book (Story Board)
1987
A CAR FOR AFRICA (Story Board)
1976
THE NEW BRITAIN
THE MIDDLE EAST AND OIL
IRELAND
THE NEW EUROPE
Audio visual Film strips for Encyclopaedia
Britannica
1976
PEOPLE OF THE WIND (Original outline and Story
Board)
1974
THE BAKHTIARI MIGRATION (Original outline and Story
Board)
1973
SHUSHA (Story Board)
1973
THE SHEEP MUST LIVE (Story Board)
1976
BLACK MAN’S LAND Feature documentary
(Source book: KENYATTA, A Photographic Biography)
1974
BLACK MAN’S LAND 3-part series
(Source book: KENYATTA, A Photographic Biography )
Part 1. WHITE MAN’S COUNTRY
Part 2. Mau Mau
Part 3. Kenyatta
1960
FENLAND FLOOD PROTECTION (Original Story Board)
40 min. industrial and educational documentary
Writer
(Script Advisor)
1987
A CAR FOR AFRICA
1984
B25 – MITCHELLS DO FLY IN IMC
1976
THE NEW BRITAIN
THE MIDDLE EAST AND OIL
IRELAND
THE NEW EUROPE
Audio visual Film strips for Encyclopaedia
Britannica
1976
PEOPLE OF THE WIND (Script Advisor)
1974
THE BAKHTIARI MIGRATION (Script Advisor)
1973
SHUSHA (Script Advisor)
1973
THE SHEEP MUST LIVE (Script Advisor)
1976
BLACK MAN’S LAND Feature documentary (Script
Advisor)
1974
BLACK MAN’S LAND 3-part series (Script Advisor)
Part 1. WHITE MAN’S COUNTRY
Part 2. Mau Mau
Part 3. Kenyatta
1960
FENLAND FLOOD PROTECTION (Script Advisor)
Cameraman
1987
A CAR FOR AFRICA
1984
B25 – MITCHELLS DO FLY IN IMC
1976
THE NEW BRITAIN
THE MIDDLE EAST AND OIL
IRELAND
THE NEW EUROPE
Audio visual Film strips for Encyclopaedia
Britannica
1976
PEOPLE OF THE WIND (Second Camera)
1974
THE BAKHTIARI MIGRATION (Second Camera)
1973
SHUSHA (Second Camera)
1973
THE SHEEP MUST LIVE (Second Camera)
1976
BLACK MAN’S LAND Feature documentary (Second Camera)
1974
BLACK MAN’S LAND 3-part series (Second Camera)
Part 1. WHITE MAN’S COUNTRY
Part 2. Mau Mau
Part 3. Kenyatta
1960
Michael Rothenstein – Lino Print Artist
BBC Horizon
1960
FENLAND FLOOD PROTECTION
Supervising Editor
1987
A CAR FOR AFRICA 5-part TV series
1976
THE NEW BRITAIN
THE MIDDLE EAST AND OIL
IRELAND
THE NEW EUROPE
Audio visual Film strips for Encyclopaedia
Britannica
1976
PEOPLE OF THE WIND
1976
BLACK MAN’S LAND Feature Documentary
(Editing Advisor)
1974
BLACK MAN’S LAND 3-part series (Editing Advisor)
Part 1. WHITE MAN’S COUNTRY
Part 2. Mau Mau
Part 3. Kenyatta
1960
FENLAND FLOOD PROTECTION (Editor)
STUDENT FILMS
At
School, Stowe School, Buckinghamshire, UK.
1951
Camera operator for 45 minute adaptation of Animal
Farm in which the pigs were replaced by the school
First Fifteen rugby team and the oppressed ordinary
boys took on the roll of the exploited farm animals.
Final scene showed the sports pavilion defended
with Bren guns being stormed by 150 boys with
rifles and grenades. Camera was a pre-World War II
three lens, clockwork, 16mm Bolex.
1955-1956
Three twenty minute newsreels covering events,
sports and arts and social, during school term.
These newsreels were my own innovation and were
edited to be projected with live last minute
commentary and a built up but imprecisely
synchronised music tape. The newsreels were shown at
the last cinema show of the term. Major sports
and other events often took place close to the end
of term. The newsreels had to be made very fast in
order to be topical. It was always a drama to get
the processed film back from the laboratory in time.
1956
THE GROOM’S REVENGE. A forty-five minute short
feature film which I scripted, directed,
photographed and edited.
The story: A maltreated groom, beaten to the ground
with a horsewhip in the 1700s by the Duke of
Buckingham, returns to haunt the school.
The embittered groom selects a young boy and
grooms him to burn down the school as revenge. He
communicates through dreams with precise
instructions as to where to set the fire and how and
when to start it.
The film climax shows the massive and
classically beautiful Stowe house, once country seat
of the Duke of Buckingham, burning to the ground.
This was achieved by filming the controlled burning
of a 3D model of the building made with multi layers
of still photographs. The photographs taken from the
south front of the building included appropriate
perspective interiors as well as exteriors.
Michael Andrews played Hinton the young boy.
Michael went on to make the classic and spectacular
documentary series, THE FLIGHT OF THE CONDOR. He
worked with the BBC wild life and natural history
unit in Bristol.
Mike seems to have been none the worse for
having burnt down one of the great houses of
England. Although, I just learned that, retired from
the BBC, he now he makes exotic jewellery and sells
it on the internet – “Now’t so queer as folk”, as
they say where I come from.
SURVIVING
PRINTS: As far as I know, no prints of
the five films mentioned above have survived. If
anyone knows otherwise, I would love to hear about it
or get a DVD.
At
Cambridge University
1958-9.
I filmed Fin de Soirée. A musical with a cast of
about 70 (as I remember it) devised and directed by
the illustrious John Tusa and James Madge. It was
made in a large lecture room in the Engineering
laboratories during a vacation period. The film was
cut to Mozart’s Symphonia Concertanti but was filmed
to a jazz band synchronised, in a sense, to the
Mozart. Heavy arty stuff. Looked and sounded good
when finished.
SURVIVING PRINTS:
Again, I don’t know of any. Would love to have a DVD
if anything exists.
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