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[…] a Post Office Film Unit, considered the king man of documentaries, but absolutely bogus Roy Fowler: Grierson? Vernon Sewell: Grierson! […]

[…]ling department and a sound recording department. Originally places like Filmatic would mainly be doing colour reversal printing because a lot of the documentaries would be shot on colour reversal, Ektachrome Commercial, and so on, and then you produced release prints on colour reversal. And Kodak p[…]

[…]orming. It wasn't always about the champagne! It was usually about smart people coming up with great ideas and then when you get one that everybody starts to get excited about, you know you've got something and then it runs and it's just like it's got a life of its own and it's fantastic and it's pr[…]

[…]1947 it was actually, when I was five, that I contracted Polio. So, I was taken out of things for quite a number of years. So, I really didn’t startschooling properly until I was nine. So, I sort of came back with an annoying waiting to take things in and, of course, going to the cinema regular[…]

[…]id, No, no, no, no. He said, we're gonna take this up to the union. So before I know where I am, I'm dragged in to the meeting and I think it was the arts the ESA club in Newport street with Railton making my case to the management who employed me for I should be paid the profit rate and not as a tr[…]

[…] being inducted and being drafted I had to study science so my A-level subjects were all science whereas I would have much rather have dabbled in the arts and I wasn’t terribly interested in physics and chemistry and pure mathematics, which were the four subjects.  But anyway I got through[…]

[…] that been going on. And he put me together with a director who was very successful at the time called Jimmy Hill, James Hill, who, who done a lot of documentaries and a lot of features. He did the ones with Virginia McKenna, you know, "Born Free". And Jimmy did "The Kitchen" after anyway. So Jimmy […]