David S. Percy

David S. Percy is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a long-standing Associate of the Royal Photographic Society. He lives in London and runs Aulis Online and Aulis Publishing as well as the website for the Belsize Village Association.

Travelling the world researching ancient sites and making documentaries, Percy has filmed in Nagaland at the foothills of the Himalayas, from open-sided helicopters, out of the rear door of Hercules Aircraft flying at 10,000 feet and from camera-adapted ambulances in the Middle East.

He created the missile tracking visual effects sequences for Ira Curtis-Coleman (Video supervisor) in the John Landis movie 'Spies Like Us' (1985). Further cinema credits include Director of Photography for 'DiscoMania' (1979) and 'Knights Electric' (1980) – often referred to as an early precursor to the music video or pop promo. He also photographed a major theatrical movie featuring the new Tornado aircraft for the British Ministry of Defence: 'The Third Dimension' (1985).

In 1997 Percy produced the film 'The Face on Mars: The Avebury Connection', a follow-up to a previous production, 'The Terrestrial Connection', filmed at the UN Headquarters in New York in 1992. In 2000 Percy continued his investigation into the Apollo record and directed What 'Happened on the Moon?' (2000) He edited the feature film 'It Takes Three to Tango' (2009). He then directed the two-volume film production 'The Belsize Story' (2012) narrated by TV broadcaster Fiona Bruce. This was followed by co-compiling 'Belsize Remembered' in 2017. Sir Derek Jacobi reads excerpts from the book. And his latest title is 'The Harlots of Haverstock Hill: 'Moll' King and her Belsize Houses' (2020).