[…]retted it. I was really very, very privileged with wonderfully understanding and liberal minded parents who gave us every kind of encouragement. Alan Lawson: You said we John Schlesinger: My siblings. I was the eldest of 5 children and we were 3 girls and 2 boys, and it was a very happy fa[…]
[…]pyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Sidney Samuelson CBE, Entrepreneur, Chairman of Samuelson Film Service. Interviewer, Alan LawsonSide One. Q: Sidney, when and where were you born?SAMUELSON: I was born in Paddington in Warrington Crescent I think it was. A n[…]
[…] you it was a long time ago, George Elvin and Alan Sapper. They were rattling on all the time about [Tape […]
[…] ationship with figures such as Tom O’Brien of NATKE and Alan Sapper of ACT. Particularly important films he remembers at Shepperton […]
[…]e a technical assistant and playing things and everything. One man said to me, ‘Miss Shadwell, would you like to tell us how you would go about balancing a small string ensemble with added flute as well?’ And I looked at him, I said, ‘I haven’t got the faintest, but I’m perfectly willing t[…]
[…]e. It was a comedown intellectually from Bush House to Broadcasting House. BH was fantastic, empire created by Lawrence Gilliam, brilliant producers, Alan Burgess, Jack Dillon, Keith Lindell – but not quite at Bush House intellectual level. And then there was TV Centre, “a bunch of bluffers and chan[…]
[…]l of course, from a being a cameraman, but um - you see, my experience really with production came later on with people like Terence Young directing, Alan Ladd starring, Victor Mature, Cornel Wilde, people like that. Bette Davis, who I made a picture with. Roy Fowler: OK well, shall we talk abo[…]
[…]yway, we approached, I have to say...SF: ACT?ACTT. And I always remember – I forget who was running...SF: Where are we? ‘68/69?Yeah. It was Alan.SF: George Elvin?No, Alan.SF: Alan Sapper? Already?Yes. And I have to say, that I always remember the letter we got back, basically telling us to[…]
