Maurice Picot

Movies

Promises Promises...
Director of Photography
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.
Planet Water
Camera Operator
A BAFTA award nominated documentary demonstrating the ways in which the oceans and seas are vital to man's survival on Earth, and the dangers which threaten their ecological systems
The Shetland Experience
Cinematography
The environmental measures taken by the oil industry at the Sullom Voe terminal in the Shetlands.
Slender Chance
Camera Operator
A BAFTA award nominated documentary explaining how well-logging equipment enables the petroleum engineer to obtain evidence of the potential of the oil reservoir.
Cutting Oils and Fluids
Camera Operator
A BAFTA award winning documentary describing the various types of water-based fluids and neat cutting oils, their composition and qualities and explains how they perform their function.
The Tide of Traffic
Camera Operator
The Tide of Traffic is a 1972 British short documentary film directed by Derek Williams, made by British Petroleum as a contribution to the UN Conference on the Human Environment, Stockholm 1972. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
Alaska: The Great Land
Camera Operator
A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at Alaska and it's future prospects now that oil has been discovered.
Imperial Sunset
Cinematography
This short satirical film, created entirely from archival footage, is about the British Empire—on which the sun never sets. The majority of the humour and wit is found in the interplay between image and sound: what we see during the formative days of the Empire, and what famous servants had to say about it. Edited by Oscar®-nominated experimental filmmaker Arthur Lipsett (Very Nice, Very Nice).
Goal!
Additional Photography
This entertaining documentary of the World Cup Soccer tournament of 1966 follows the 15 countries competing for the sport's most coveted prize. Nigel Patrick narrates, with commentary provided by Brian Glanville. The executive producer spent $336,000 on the production and used 117 cameras to record nearly 48 hours worth of action. Four editors were employed to created the final 108-minute feature.
Transonic Flight
Assistant Camera
Part two in a three part documentary series looking at how supersonic flight might be achieved in the future.