Directing

Richard Tambling

Known for

Directing

Credits

7 titles

Known for

Promises Promises... poster
NR

Features the 07.55 from Sheffield to St Pancras. The camera follows to Leicester, where a young man is late for a job interview thanks to a variety of incidents including a freight train blocking the line and an improperly secured door at Derby. The film is a modernised version of an older theme for British Transport 'Right Time Means Right Time', where the accumulation of many minor delays on the part of BR staff soon add up down the line to make a train very late.

Promises Promises...

1982

Safe at Work? poster
NR

Made for senior and middle British Rail management and supervisory staff, to stimulate discussion and provoke action, by alerting them to their responsibilities for staff safety, and the pressing need to reduce accident figures.

Safe at Work?

1980

No artwork available
NR

Introduces the principle of newly developed computer techniques for planning train movements, crew and locomotive rosters and for producing and printing timetables. Explains the programmes, shows the equipment in action and some of the changes in working methods. Intended for British Rail staff involved in train movement planning, overseas railway audiences and specialist computer-application, non-railway audiences.

Computer Aided Train Planning

1979

Too Close for Comfort poster
NR

An extended humorous public information film (lasting around fifteen minutes) narrated by Richard Wattis.

Too Close for Comfort

1971

No artwork available
NR

A BAFTA Special award nominated documentary that illustrates the need for and uses of lubrication across engineering.

The Basic Principles of Lubrication

1952

Behind the camera

Promises Promises... poster
NR

Features the 07.55 from Sheffield to St Pancras. The camera follows to Leicester, where a young man is late for a job interview thanks to a variety of incidents including a freight train blocking the line and an improperly secured door at Derby. The film is a modernised version of an older theme for British Transport 'Right Time Means Right Time', where the accumulation of many minor delays on the part of BR staff soon add up down the line to make a train very late.

Promises Promises...

1982

Promises Promises... poster
NR

Features the 07.55 from Sheffield to St Pancras. The camera follows to Leicester, where a young man is late for a job interview thanks to a variety of incidents including a freight train blocking the line and an improperly secured door at Derby. The film is a modernised version of an older theme for British Transport 'Right Time Means Right Time', where the accumulation of many minor delays on the part of BR staff soon add up down the line to make a train very late.

Promises Promises...

1982

Safe at Work? poster
NR

Made for senior and middle British Rail management and supervisory staff, to stimulate discussion and provoke action, by alerting them to their responsibilities for staff safety, and the pressing need to reduce accident figures.

Safe at Work?

1980

Safe at Work? poster
NR

Made for senior and middle British Rail management and supervisory staff, to stimulate discussion and provoke action, by alerting them to their responsibilities for staff safety, and the pressing need to reduce accident figures.

Safe at Work?

1980

No artwork available
NR

Introduces the principle of newly developed computer techniques for planning train movements, crew and locomotive rosters and for producing and printing timetables. Explains the programmes, shows the equipment in action and some of the changes in working methods. Intended for British Rail staff involved in train movement planning, overseas railway audiences and specialist computer-application, non-railway audiences.

Computer Aided Train Planning

1979

Too Close for Comfort poster
NR

An extended humorous public information film (lasting around fifteen minutes) narrated by Richard Wattis.

Too Close for Comfort

1971

No artwork available
NR

A BAFTA Special award nominated documentary that illustrates the need for and uses of lubrication across engineering.

The Basic Principles of Lubrication

1952