[…] can be seen by people still. So Bill’s career then really did move on; he did a wonderful film about poaching called Bloody Ivory (1978) which got a BAFTA nomination.[99] He edited two stories together; he did the work of David Sheldrick against the poachers, because there was such a huge poaching […]
[…]of the new techniques - hand-held cameras, stocks, etc - meant that you could actually record an event or a situation, and think afterwards about the best structure for it. Didn’t mean to say you wouldn’t have an idea, or a narrative idea in your head, but it left things much more fluid, which were […]
[…]a is the British Association of British amateur video awards. Sorry, and that replaced the 10 Best. So that was quite an occasion when we went to the BAFTA Institute in Piccadilly to receive the award. Then followed the American dream, a travelogue in California, Palm Springs, San Diego and Los Ange[…]
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[…]was a one-off.Rodney Giesler: I don't know. I never met him (Neame) although I wrote and thanked him profusely. Also I only finally met David Lean at BAFTA about 6 months before he died. But that day at Pinewood was the next step towards movie-making.John Legard: Your day out at Pinewood was a very […]
[…]h, I must have done, yes, but I probably didn’t know his surname.I: No, well he went on to be one of Lean’s cameramen, camera operator, and he was at Bafta that night too?CB: Oh was he?I: Yeah, but, Peter says it was a very happy little studio, was it? YesCB: Oh, it was lovely, Oh, it was lovely. It[…]
[…]most important English youngish English composers of that time, with a reputation as a as a bit of the avant garde and so on. And he tried to get the best known conductor of the day to do it. Now come, Sergeant, and Sergeant had said he wouldn't do it because jobs were pre disrupted what needs to be[…]
[…]bout a school, but to get to our grammar school, “cor, ‘ere George Wilson’s boy Den, he’s got himself a scholarship, Christ.” So you go there in your best suit. The master was a chap called Maurice M.A (Oxon) and he spoke rather well, whereas we was talking more [faux cockney] “a bit like that darli[…]
[…]how business goes on. Television has to change its schedules when something happens.Well in 1963, I was very pleased to get an award. It’s now called BAFTA, but in those days it was called SAFTA.NS: The Guild of television Producers and Directors. This became the Society and Film and Television Arts[…]
