[…]e going back all the way to the firstCapra films, Columbia’s first silent films and so on – and that has been one ofthe great triumphs in America.The Academy Film Archive was created to acquire and preserve all awardedfilms in America; the Library of Congress set up a register of important films. It[…]
[…]ell you either lose at the top… I mean if you go back to the classics and start using the classics what’s going?Julia Cave: Are we talking about full academy?Alan Lawson: Yeah! You’re going to lose an awful lot. Julia Cave: Why? I don’t see why you should lose anything at the top or the b[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]em, I dubbed some of the early ones and then the others went into the next theatre. Another one, another picture on which the sound department got an Academy nomination was we called it 'The Card' - Ronnie Neame directed Alec Guinness. And the Americans called it 'The Promoter'. And there again, the[…]
[…]e was another Bunker being made here which was being shown and there was an Italian Bunker being shown so ours was never shown but we did get an Emmy award and so did Tony Hopkins, and it was really wonderful. TD: Did you make it in the studio in Boulogne [?] or... AY: No we ma[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]ther cameramen.KGY: I know Powell says when he saw the way things looked like when Perinal shot them he couldn't believe it and he thought he was the best there was.CC: He was wonderful with women, Pery, marvellous. He was an artist. I think there were others, Gregg Toland was a legend, he was marve[…]
[…];introduced toall these little girls who made the silk stockings and I handed over myaward winning group of order forms to Gordon Reid who is the husband ofBeryl Rei[…]
[…]lly in those kind of films, not really, you'd just line them up and shoot them. Although the camera did his best it didn't really matter if it was an academy award or not. It was probably never seen, it was a form of fine I suppose. Then after leaving Stoll, I went to Ealing. That was a very differe[…]
[…]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 […]
