Search Results for: Art Directors Award (1982)

[…], I would be following my inclinations and, of course, I had been quite an enthusiastic schoolboy actor and things like that. I was interested in the artistic side of things, perhaps, and I thought, "Well films sound like a marvellous idea." So that is my background...very little background! [Chuckl[…]

[…]shire but I don’t think the Welsh would agree.AL What about schooling?GH I went to all the normal…well the war years came along.  When the war started in 1939 we were in Eastbourne and then we got evacuated back to Wales in fact, where I passed my 11+ and then by this time it was about 1942 or […]

[…]e upon Tyne in July 1956. I'm British, talking about my and my family background and origins, there was no involvement in the media industry at all apart from a possibly apocryphal story that one of my father's ancestors had opened the first cinema in Liverpool. I've never been able to find any info[…]

[…] Taking classic theatre out to people: ‘What’s best in the arts should be for everybody, that sort of committed socialism’. […]

[…]y would have loved to work in the theatre but knew nothing about it. Sort of thought that perhaps working for The BBC would be a wonderful place to start because there would be programmes going on and also a weekly pay cheque or, you know, pay packet in this. So I applied to The BBC and had an inter[…]

[…] Project. Hello Taylor. Taylor Downing: Welcome. MW: Thank you very much for having us here today. With all of these interviews we always start at the very beginning by asking all our subjects where were you born? Where did you come from – so tell us more about where you grew up. TD: […]

Alan Lawson  0:00  The copyright of this recording is vested in the actt history project.Charlotte Jennings, artist, daughter of Humphrey Jennings, the documentary film director, poet, and artist,recorded on the 17th of December 1990. side one interview, Alan Lawson Well was was not, you k[…]

[…]about your family and how you came to be in the film industry?Right. My family consisted of a father who was in the engineering business, who would started making his own films and when he was young man just after the the First World War. So we have a very unusual 16 millimetre stuff. And I became v[…]