Oral History: Gerald Thompson 

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Interview details

Location:	Oxford, UK
Date:	3 September 1998
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Credits

Interviewee:	Gerald Thompson
Interviewer:	Christopher Parsons
Cameraman:	Derek Kilkenny-Blake
Copyright Holder:	Patricia Harvey-Thompson
Copyright Holder:	Wildscreen

Chapters

1. Early interest in photography and filming

2. The problems with filming insects

3. Making The Alder Woodwasp and its Insect Enemies

4. Planning the films

5. Most difficult shots

6. Assembling the films and making the equipment

7. Filming spiders

8. Setting up Oxford Scientific Films

9. Buying the first film camera, the Percy Smith film and looking at equipment photographs

10. Trip to Australia

11. Filming tiger beetles and their parasites

12. Filming thynnid wasps in Australia

13. Filming spiders

14. Filming whirligig larvae

15. Filming dung beetles in France

16. Filming silk moths

1: Early interest in photography and filmin...

2: The problems with filming insects

3: Making The Alder Woodwasp and its Insect...

4: Planning the films

5: Most difficult shots

6: Assembling the films and making the equi...

7: Filming spiders

8: Setting up Oxford Scientific Films

9: Buying the first film camera, the Percy ...

10: Trip to Australia

11: Filming tiger beetles and their parasite...

12: Filming thynnid wasps in Australia

13: Filming spiders

14: Filming whirligig larvae

15: Filming dung beetles in France

16: Filming silk moths