Directing

Peter Baylis

Known for

Directing

Credits

18 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

The Finest Hours poster
6.8

A biography of Winston Churchill, shown through re-creations and actual film footage and told by Orson Welles.

The Finest Hours

1964

See You at the Pillar poster
6.9

A short film about Dublin City using a mixture of contemporary footage, folk music and quotations from past residents, Shaw, Wilde and Behan etc. Narrated in a "conversation" by Anthony Quayle and Norman Rodway.

See You at the Pillar

1967

See You at the Pillar poster
6.9

A short film about Dublin City using a mixture of contemporary footage, folk music and quotations from past residents, Shaw, Wilde and Behan etc. Narrated in a "conversation" by Anthony Quayle and Norman Rodway.

See You at the Pillar

1967

High Journey poster
7.0

In this film, ten European countries (France, Italy, Greece, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Turkey) are photographed from low-flying aircraft against an evocative soundtrack, revealing the features of their ancient capitals, historical heritage and remarkable landscapes in a new dimension.

High Journey

1959

High Journey poster
7.0

In this film, ten European countries (France, Italy, Greece, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Turkey) are photographed from low-flying aircraft against an evocative soundtrack, revealing the features of their ancient capitals, historical heritage and remarkable landscapes in a new dimension.

High Journey

1959

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6.0

A BAFTA nominated documentary reviewing news, sporting and royal events from 1933.

Scrapbook for 1933

1950

No artwork available
6.0

A BAFTA nominated documentary reviewing news, sporting and royal events from 1933.

Scrapbook for 1933

1950

The Blacksmith poster
NR

Time-honoured craftsmanship at Corfe, near Taunton in Somerset.

The Blacksmith

1941

Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #3 poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #3

1941

No artwork available
NR

Through the pattern of this film a ‘Test’ at Lord’s runs like a thread and a broadcast commentary on the match is imposed on the background of cricket as a game, a craft, an interest of a people, a piece of history. The craftsmen are shown who make the ball and the bat–that ‘fourth straight stick’ with which the batsmen defend ‘the other three’. The craftsmen are shown who play the game, from W. G. Grace in the ‘nets’ to D. G. Bradman and Denis Compton in the thread of the ‘Test’. The history of the game is epitomized in the Long Room shots at Lord’s and from there the camera moves to the village green; to the London side- street where the urchins play on a ‘bumping pitch’; to South Africa, and India, where in the ‘blinding light’ there is often ‘an hour to play and the last man in.

Cricket

1950

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8.0

A documentary about the Atlantic Ocean, which tells of the coastal inhabitants' struggle with the sea, the secrets of the deep, and the benefits of the ocean.

River of the Ocean

1962

No artwork available
8.0

A documentary about the Atlantic Ocean, which tells of the coastal inhabitants' struggle with the sea, the secrets of the deep, and the benefits of the ocean.

River of the Ocean

1962

No artwork available
NR

A day-in-the-life of the Square Mile.

The City of London

1951

No artwork available
NR

A day-in-the-life of the Square Mile.

The City of London

1951

No artwork available
NR

A day-in-the-life of the Square Mile.

The City of London

1951

No artwork available
6.0

A short wartime documentary spending time with those charged with manning British anti-aircraft defences during WWII.

Ack-ack

1941

No artwork available
NR

Whitsun, the Pentecost weekend, puts millions of Europeans on the road for a brief vacation in the spring air. The film contrasts the way West Europeans are free to choose how to spend their time with the lock-step celebration of the World Youth Congress in East Berlin. The Marshall Plan film unit produced few films of an outright anti-Communist nature, but this is one of them, a witty piece of propaganda.

Whitsun Holiday

1953

Transport poster
NR

An argument for nationalisation under the 1948 Transport Act, not just of railways but of roads and waterways as well.

Transport

1950