[…] and was a very experienced Operator in Canada and Ray came over and directed the opening night show but it's no' exaggeration to say, apart from the Artists obviously, he was probably about the only guy there who knew what he was doing! And he put this show that ran all night, he'd pipes and drums,[…]
[…]as some, I remember one effect, it went from black and white to colour. We'd made some of the stuff black and white and there was a shot of a make-up artist just painting make-up on one of the faces, and just kind of, iris wiped, the kind of colour out from there and somebody said, "How did you do t[…]
[…]there. When I went to see it, I still remember the next day I was having a shower in Edinburgh and I thought, I phoned up David MacLennan who was the Artistic Director of Wildcard and I said, "Why don't we do it for television?!" And then we spoke to Tony Roper and it took quite a while to get the t[…]
[…] long and complicated history because Leni Riefenstahl survived forever and was very, very, active in fighting for her rights as an individual auteur artiste, rather than a mere employee of the Nazi party and you had to be fairly careful with whom you were dealing and where you released it. IWM bene[…]
[…] Chair in terms of the future of the, of the project. I knew at that time someone called John Sealey, and John I suppose is one of the great bullshit artists, one of the great conmen, mm, and we all went through a period where we thought ‘ah’, you know, ‘here is someone who will be a very effective […]
[…]ng the stills that I can recall.MW: When I said that they were a bit cavalier I was referring to the content itself, what is the concern of many artists, the script, the paperwork, all the correspondence and so on, which has tended in many cases to be put in skips-[They talk over one another]&n[…]
[…]you never see as an ordinary traveller.I think it's an amazing job. I mean unless you've got an incredible natural creative talent as amusician or an artist or whatever it is I can't think of anything better than makingdocumentaries really.SRThanks very much, that’s a good note to finish on.JBWell i[…]
