[5] When his brother volunteered for military service, as a "stateless enemy alien", he was made to change his last name, in case of capture by Germans.
[9] Using a 16mm magazine Cine-Kodak he had acquired by barter in Berlin, July 1945,[10] Morley produced a film about Bunce Court, shortly before the school closed.
[9] Called Once Upon a Time, the film won a special commendation from the board of Amateur Cine World, and 50 years later, provided archival footage for U.S. and German documentaries about the 1939 Kindertransport and related topics.
[11] It was not until 1950 that Morley was finally able to break into the industry, but he had to accept a demotion to "tea boy" and his wages, which had risen to £7 a week, were cut to £4.
Following that success, Morley made films on a variety of topics, including an original studio production of Benjamin Britten's opera The Turn of the Screw, a film about life in post-war Japan, another about the work of members of the London Symphony Orchestra and in 1964, a documentary about racially mixed marriages, a very controversial subject at the time.
[15] Morley published his autobiography, A Life Rewound: Memoirs Of A Freelance Producer And Director, in book form in November 2010.