[…]nd rewind the plates and reload again with negative. So used to go on all night. Yes,Unknown Speaker  42:33  at that time, it was all shock Academy. Wasn't it all Academy? Yes, yes,Unknown Speaker  42:39  if I remember in your earlier days at Lion Grove, you and I met up with a w[…]
[…]SPEAKER: M7He was going to. He was going up to Colchester to a lecture by the late Dr. Roger Manville who was.SPEAKER: M5Chairman of the British Film Academy at the time.SPEAKER: M6And Lou said to me I can't go because I got a ticket. He said Would you like to go in my place. I said Yeah. Because I […]
[…]ffice All my bills for the last year.SC: You had a brief excursion into theatre at about this time I think because in your biographical notes to that Academy later on, you credit yourself with directing a production of "Macbeth".EC: Oh yesSC: Tell me about that.EC: Now that there were no films to do[…]
[…]at's all I can say. It was 194...Sidney Cole: 1945?Kay Mander: No, no, no. It was after the War.Sidney Cole: Oh, 1946?Kay Mander: Well, I won the BFI award in 1949, so it must have been 1948. And the first one - they liked the first one, so Jacques Brunius was commontateur[?]. And this is another pi[…]
[…]g about that after that? Yes,Unknown Speaker  43:53  I discovered afterwards,Unknown Speaker  43:56  it was the first year of the Academy Awards that they decided toUnknown Speaker  44:03  haveUnknown Speaker  44:08  up to that year, there'd always been two aw[…]
[…]me technical stuff and went back again.Roy Fowler: You didn't even get a demob suit then.Peter Tanner: No.Roy Fowler: Onto Mr Balcon's Academy forYoung GentlemenPeter Tanner: That was quite an enjoyable 10 years, I think it got too much into a mutual admiration society in the end[…]
[…]t's changed the union a great deal, of course.Well that's it, I think it has. Because it's now really it's, it's all geared, it's like with the BAFTA awards and all those sort of things I get so upset about, it's all about television. I mean, film, it was the film...Y es.Awards, let's face it, we ar[…]
[…]re was healing considered to be stronglyUnknown Speaker  21:28  union, or, oh yes,Unknown Speaker  21:32  image of the benevolent Academy. Well,Speaker 1  21:35  I found it benevolent Academy Deidre. You remember Ralph Hogg and I came on to the committee? Yes, I remembe[…]
[…]gh, and got on the board, and went to Wrotham in Kent to be a…trained as an officer in the Royal Artillery. And, to cut a long story short, I met the best friend (one of the best friends I ever had) which was Peter Chudley, who was just a great friend, and of course, it so happened the (indistinct) […]
[…]at the chance. Perhaps I would have become Yvonne Littlewood of  Children's Programmes. What a wonderful job she made of her career. She has the awards prove it as well. Her programmes had a trademark those wonderful moving shots on the crane. Always going with the sweep of the music. Personall[…]
