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[…]hen we made the second March to Aldermaston film about nuclear disarmament march in Britain. That was with Karel Reisz. And basically we made several documentaries in black-and-white on 35mm and 16mm and Alan used to get me to operate and it was a learning process but he was a great teacher.PF: So g[…]

[…]ch as another woman and so I quite enjoyed that; I didn't feel that wasestablishment. She was totally, by the way, intellectually uninterested in the arts. Thereweren't any books around much; you know she was just essentially focused on what she wasdoing and on the practicalities of life. You know s[…]

[…], great stuff and got to know lots of people there like the work like working with Michael, quite a bit. And so when it n then Michael went into into arts features with Steven and Humphrey. And I followed on and largely on Michaels recommendations. I should to Stephen that I should meet up and worke[…]

[…]o the problem was how to keep a repertoire going with very few men, because we had students from the school who were too young doing all the old men parts. You get a sixteen year old with a beard.It was a great surprise to Guthrie, who was not fond of the ballet-he thought it had no intellectuality […]

[…]ll worked, you know, I don’t know how. Because then, Noel Langley took this great hate for Nigel Patrick, who was playing Mr Jingle, one of the main parts, so he’d do his tight ten shots with close-ups at everybody except Paddy. And I was having to go in and direct them, or pick up his close-ups lat[…]

[…]me from lord knows where, all over southern England. They were dirty, filthy, unwashed. Lice-ridden some of them, illiterate innumerate bless their hearts, an absolute, bloody, shambles. So I had obviously in our little working class enclave been very lucky. Well you can imagine, you're interviewed […]

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[…]n a very conservative, stifling, expatriate community because not many people are aware of it, but there was a massive amount of emigration from all parts of the United Kingdom to Argentina. From the middle of the 19th century to the early 20th century, there was 60,000 people in Buenos Aires who sp[…]

[…] the use of music in the film as well was something that I was really impressed with. I also really loved the landmark series documentary Music & Arts series of the 1970s. So things like “The Ascent of Man”, “Civilization” etc that were bringing together you know art and philosophy in some ways.[…]