[…]it was a hit – you can smell success. Then Franco turned up and out of all this mish-mash it was a huge hit, and he won the Best Director of the Year Award! [Much laughter] So, it was an experience. But then I worked with him again, in what about ten or fifteen years ago in a play called Absolutely![…]
[…] Q:  Was bingo a license to print money?00:21:30       JIM WHITTELL: Yes, no question. The best example I can think of would be a provincial Odeon in Birmingham which used to make – and bear in mind this is middle 60’s money – used to make £[…]
[…] forward for technology. And Pure  Film Company is one of the world pioneers in digital film technology, and they've got numerous technical Academy Awards. Their film scanning machinery, which was based on technology we developed in the early 90s, is now the sort of absolute pinnacle of fi[…]
[…]then started to visit a number of labs, the studios to meet cameraman. Because I felt really strongly at that time and so many other people, that the best way of getting the best products out there was to actually find out what they wanted. Mine was double edged, because I was interested in wanting […]
[…]r an Oscar, as the 'best film from any source', which speaks highly for the non-actor. Now, if non-actors can suddenly appear and be nominated for an Academy Award, there is something in that system of film making, and we can't do it now... because of the union trouble. So that it means that a vital[…]
[…]p;year they they are sort of they work in the grade that they are probably best suited for. Whether it be camera sound or whatever and they are attached to[…]
[…]nbsp;Up to you know the late 60s. What were the highlights of you know any awards or any special films that you made or any particular programs that year. […]
[…]on Out of Africa because we all know that it culminated in receiving what is considered the highest award in the Motion Picture business, that is the Academy Oscar. Can you tell us a little bit about working on the picture and your enjoyment and problems and so on.PH It goes back beyond Out of Afric[…]
[…]ere’s no film schools at all, so we were fighting withthe union, the union was fighting with the employers to get an apprenticeship scheme going. The best units used to really do this sort of thing, that happened to me, that youKitty Marshall Page 9worked for sort of six months editing, six mon[…]
