[…] and the BAFTA when I was shooting Baby Makes Six. And Colleen Dewhurst stopped the shoot and said "I want to announce that my director's just won an award". And I wasn't there to accept it. I've never been there to accept anything! Darrol Blake 1:09:14 Have you bypassed H[…]
[…]n named Hibbert, but Linden I think was the chief of the photographic department. He was a Royal - he was an artist, he had his pictures in the Royal Academy and he gave us lectures and demonstrations on portraiture and all that sort of thing.Alan Lawson: Yes, yes.Leonard Harris: Now he was pretty g[…]
[…]m. The collaboration between him and Powell, was it fruitful right from the very beginning?Vernon Sewell: Yes, very important. In fact, when his best buddy left, Mickey didn't do any good at all. His Australian pictures were disgraceful, disgraceful!Roy Fowler: Well, several after that.Ver[…]
[…] certainly at the beginning, maybe right the way through until MGM were built, that had Western Electric. Which of course we thought no doubt was the best sound system there was. And there we had finished 'Wolves' at the Rock Studio, and we started with 'The Loves of Robert Burns' with a Scottish op[…]
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[…] Bell and Judy Dench, directed by Michael Truman. And then it wasn't long before we came to Upstairs Downstairs, that Was 1972. And that music got an award, the Ivor Novello Award for the Best Theme from TV or Radio in 1975 and 1976. I had to wait for one when there wasn't one better.TD: Tell me abo[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] Giesler: You were talking about your days at the Compton Academy. Dicky Leeman: Yes. Fay Compton was a big actress... […]
[…]aybe cheaper, I can't remember, but it was all cosy and warm, really lovely atmosphere.Roy Fowler: You've probably heard it's been called Mr Balcon's Academy for Young Gentlemen, a very proper British middle-class atmosphere. Have you read Charles Barr’s book about Ealing Studios – I’ll show it to y[…]
[…]t a good atmosphere, actually, and there was a constant feeling of management and – worker is too – you know what I mean. In that sense it wasn’t the best atmosphere.I do remember a question being asked on the very first occasion when I joined the BBC and they had a good question, which was “How do […]
