[…] the British Film Commission. Goodman has been closely involved with BAFTA throughout much of his career, and he held the […]
[…]er I would be the boss of 'Euston Films', but that's another story. Anyway so I was getting depressed and that and then suddenly there's a problem at BAFTA. Now I had been on the BAFTA council for quite some time. I was a very impressionable guy. I mean I got on the BAFTA council and there's all the[…]
[…]ed that the Royal Television Society became the leading television society in the country, I mean, it was far more important in television terms than BAFTA, which after all, also embraced film. I’m not decrying BAFTA. I think BAFTA do a fine job. But after all it’s film and televis[…]
[…]en, Orson Welles talked about making a movie as being the greatest toy train set anybody could ever have, my train set was one day when I was told at BAFTA that they would like me to look after the theatre and how it should be designed and what the technical equipment should be and that was my train[…]
[…]ery helpful. Whenever he’s been asked to do anything he’s always done it gracefully and, and happily, joyfully. Full marks. Relations with BAFTA? Mm, mm. Let’s move on. Right ho. Relations with BAFTA. When did they develop, how did they develop, mm?&n[…]
[…]d then my father had a 16mm camera that, he used to take photographs of us as kids.
Mhm.
Which I still have. And...
Will they surface at the BAFTA [inaudible]? [laughs]
I don’t think so. I... I don’t know where they are now. My, my problem from the BAFTA point of view actually is the fac[…]
[…]en on the individual labs did their own negotiations; only 35 staff working at Perivale at time of interview; HM took retirement in 1989 then went to BAFTA as finance director.00:25:12 – 00:34:26 Universal labs came in as a rival to CFS; 16mm wasn’t considered ‘professional’; they had very few perso[…]