[…] in that screening - a mixture of Barry Fitzgerald and Jack Buchanan. And Jennings was way out on his own, he was so in love with making movies, with pictures, he was so excited by rushes that he couldn't sit and watch them, he would walk up and down. And that was immensely inspiring, that kind of e[…]
[…] a bit of a film fan and also I had an uncle, Uncle Joe, who ran a pub and he was a bit of a amateur photographer. And he taught me to process my own pictures, and things like that.Alan Lawson: Where about are we now in time?Freddie Francis: I'm now about 13, 14. And I've now gone to this very posh […]
[…]bsp;Alan Lawson 35:32She's had a stroke hadn't she?Dallas Bower 35:33Oh yes, a rather severe one. But I mean Elizabeth's all right. Yes and then that BAFTA thing that subsequent BAFTA thing that was very well managed by Graham Benson because Bridgey and myself, Cecil and Elizabeth were all placed in[…]
[…]n went, right. So now then we will go Very happy and contented, nice Film Unit. I made a lot of very good friends many of whom I keep up with here at BAFTA, but the bombshell was around the corner with the arrival of a conservative government in 1952 5152. And one of the first acts was to close down[…]
[…]rison] camps, trying to find young writers, young performers. I even went into Buchenwald.[Side 2, 04:47]DMW: Pity it's not television. I've got some pictures that would blow your mind. On another job, I met an old - Oh pile of bones. Walking around and I said, "How are you? Wie gehts?” &n[…]
[…]hings but the staff was very poor quality, asit used to be in most public schools I think, they were sort of 'throw outs' rather like the EvelynWaugh picture of what schoolmasters were like, you know they were all a bit like that, they weren'tdrunks, but something had happened to them in the past, o[…]
[…]ything to begin except generally look around and 10ad magazines and do things like that. That's where I met Jack Cardiff because Jack operated on the picture. He was a sort of London Films operator. He worked for Denham. I wasn't a sort of first assistant. I was much lower down the scale. They calle[…]
[…]n director called T. Hayes Hunter. He turned out to be a very nice man but he was very severe on me to begin with. Eventually Balcon and Gainsborough Pictures, let me think, he thought I had some sort of promise but he didn't know what so he put me through various departments, the editing department[…]
[…] were sort of 'throw outs' rather like the Evelyn Waugh picture of what schoolmasters were like, you know they were […]
[…]is thing and it's But you know what it was a it was a great grounding because there's I was working on all sorts of films and looking at all sorts of pictures and images, which I would do is it was going through many a numbering boy before me, I have to say lost parts of their fingers because they g[…]
