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A basement was his film school
A basement for an office
He was president of the Film and TV Society, and the basement was essentially his office. He built his own curriculum there, learning to operate cameras, edit, cut film by hand, and sync sound.
A literature professor once saw how obsessed he was with movies and asked him to bring that same obsession to the books. That was never going to happen. Nolan already knew what he wanted to do, so he used the time to learn how to make a movie.
Three years of practice
Over three years he and his fellow students made short films, ran the society, and raised money to make more films. It was student-led, and he learned a huge amount about the craft of putting films together.
How did student film societies begin?
The Film Society in London was founded in 1925 by a group that included Ivor Montagu, and it screened films the commercial cinemas would not show. Film societies grew out of that movement and spread through universities. Members pooled money to rent films and later to make their own. University societies became a training ground for generations of British filmmakers.
How was film edited by hand?
Editors cut strips of film with a splicer and joined them with tape or cement. They watched the strips on machines such as the upright Moviola, introduced in the 1920s, or the flatbed Steenbeck. Sound was usually recorded on a separate tape and matched to the picture using a clapperboard snap as a reference point. The sound and picture had to be synced frame by frame.
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