Hugh Stewart

[…]that I think we were going to make another one - yes that's right. Because of the success of Square Peg Norman made a deal with the Americans, United Artists, with John Bryan as the producer...with Stuart Burge and all this kind of thing...it was called Once a Crooked Man [NB There Was a Crooked Man[…]

Daphne Anstey (nee Lily)

[…]d I thought there should be a film about the Banff School of Fine Arts, it's very popular, A. Y. Jackson goes out and teaches and they have very good artists, they have film, they have a theatre. He said “ Ok, give me a little while. " And to make a long story short, I went out as assistant in produ[…]

Joy Batchelor

[…]helor: They did, and the USR[indecipherable] had even better. And the Poles, yes, because Jan Meynitzer [Janus Majewski] was, he started off a poster artist, did very good films. I don't think he does any now.Kay Mander: Do the animators keep in touch on an international basis?Joy Batchelor: Yes, th[…]

Charles Crichton

[…]e got it was far as she was going to go. She never changed. Valerie Hobson got worse and worse and worse the more we rehearsed because she was a film artist and used to doing it instantly.SC: You also had two interesting supporting characters, Gwenn Cheryll and John Gregson.CC: Yes, I've nearly forg[…]

Douglas Slocombe

[…] no rules in a way that you know you have the limitations, but, but, but within those within those limits, there are no rules that the only rules are artistic ones and and so, you know, I mean, it was one of the Things I found on Saturday. My love was that the fact that one was told that you there s[…]

Kay Mander

[…]o at Nettlefold's who did bed and breakfast, and she was the one who used to bring tea over on a silver tray every afternoon for the director and the artists! Sort of practically having it piped across the road! [laughs].Sidney Cole: Lovely! Can you remember what the charge was for bed and breakfast[…]

Roy Parkinson

[…]ctual running costs of the picture, above the line is the costs of the story, the writer, the producer's fees, the director's fees and your principal artists. The minor artists come below the line under the cast budget. You've then got your finishing costs which is really below the line but is budge[…]

Dallas Bower

[…]u know that I mean? But Mycroft was certainly, he was technically known as the scenario editor but of course what it really meant was that he was the artistic director of the place and in as much as well he brought in people like Arthur Robeson, 'warning shadows' Robeson, E A Dupont, Hitch, Harry La[…]
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