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[…] films for showing in international festivals. In those days the Arts Council helped you enter a short film in foreign […]

[…]tival Fringe for five years before that and I'd been interviewed on TV and I was also presenting a programme called Encore, which was STV's mandatory Arts programme and so I had some experience of that and I enjoyed that and so I decided that five years was enough doing the Fringe and I spoke to Dav[…]

[…] at Sandhurst and also an author; and a rather shorter visit from Christopher Frayling, again, later, Professor Sir Christopher Frayling, and Head of Arts Council England, by way of the Royal College of Art; and Taylor Downing (BEHP Interview No 699) with later, Flashback Television and a stellar ca[…]

[…]uba Roscha, Godard, Michael Snow, Hollis Frampton, for all of us, The Straubs, Jean-Marie Straub, Daniel Frier, all these great figures in different parts of the world and in very very different ways, he saw inspire, as a kind of inspiration point for this new cinema and so once he became appointed […]

[…]en by the sound of itLK: Yes they are interestingRF: After the war did you have any desire to re-establish contact with central Europe? Your family, parts of your family, sound as if they were in the HolocaustLK: Yes. No, as I said it was amazing and I totally adopted the British way of life, whatev[…]

[…]and I wasn’t interested - and hairdressers - I wasn’t interested in doing any of that. I wanted to go onto production, especially after I had been in documentaries for three years. So he took me on as a ‘runner’, and I was quite happy about that and John Croydon was running the studios at the time, […]

[…]hown, and there was quite a gasp when you zoomed all that way. Do you remember seeing a National Film Board of Canada cartoon called "Cosmic Zoom"? Starts off the same way, from a skin cell to the universe. And then reverses and ends up in an atom. That was done by animation in about 5 minutes. Love[…]

[…]Mm.It was ‘What are you going to do’? And there was not much, you see and now we were well into Wartime.Mm.[05:00]So there was not much access to the Arts or to concerts, I never went to a concert, or a, a, the only theatre experience I had was to go to Cheltenham once a year with some friends to th[…]

[…]ctors in London. I did so much work with Irish accents on radio, and it wasn’t (oddly enough) ‘til sometime after that, that I got a lot of Scottish parts, which of course, by descent, I am a Scot!Margaret Thomson:  Just tell us a little about the Scottish background will you? About where your […]

[…] offer throughout my demented life. Bob Godfrey: Now you left Budapest and you went back to Les Beaux Art in Paris?(John never went to the Beaux Arts) John Halas: I had a stint again in Paris. By now I had some facilities in design and assisted a Romanian graphic designer there, which was […]