[…]iscussion is with Jonathan Balcon, who is the son of Michael Balcon. Jonathan now, we're going to range over vast areas of territory so where do we start in this? I think maybe the Balcon family itself, the origins and ...Jonathan Balcon 0:35 Yes Roy I think probably you are right. But can I j[…]
[…]e said I'll speak to him. He came back the next night and said go along and see somebody called Anderson, and this chap obviously didn't want me to start with, he maybe had somebody else in mind. He said how tall are you? I said just about, Ray Massey might be about an inch taller than me, I was abo[…]
[…] had this sense of style - he had been an art director in France before he started directing and he had […]
Waris Hussein Part 1 Camera 0:00 That's camera speed gentlemen I'll class you slightly right of frame side. Yeah. Okay. Darrol Blake 0:06 All right. Can you tell the camera who you are? When Waris Hussein 0:12 I'm Waris[…]
[…]istory Project. Side One. So, Elaine Schreyeck, Continuity and Production Secretary, you have it.Oh good.Alright. Now, you've read the thing, so we start off with the, you know, conventional background sort of things, when you were born and school days.When I was born? Yes the eighth, the year I was[…]
[…]. Jeffrey Hermes, lighting, camera man interviews, Gloria Sachs and Alan Lawson, side one.Speaker 2 0:38 Okay, right, once upon a time, starting at the beginning. Can you tell me when you were born, where you were born? Something about your early life and your family background? Yes,Spea[…]
[…]his and this made me feel that if I had to go out after graduation into the cruel hard world and no longer have a nice time as a student I'd better start thinking about what I really wanted to do. I decided the only thing I really wanted to do was work in films. So I started writing around to all th[…]
[…] things, which were, I think it was Dave Rawnsley, the art director. He brought this idea of no sets, everything was […]
[…] Bray expanded a bit. But they had a very good art director then. Reg Wyer was lighting, Terence Fisher directing, a […]
[…]pot to pee in, everything was cut [price], it was packed, like Piccadilly Circus. The other anecdote I’ve got about it is – I think it was the early part of the war - a man called Wendell Willkie who was a potential president of the United States, he was a Republican. He came over here obviously to […]
