[…]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[…]
[…] fun because we got a lot of students from all over Europe, and I really grew up with a sort of League of Nations, which was fun! I went to Bryanston for one term. The only reason I went to Bryanston was because it was the only school at the time that didn't want people to have taken the 'Common Ent[…]
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[…]wn as the techniques of driving electric auto. Motives you cannot imagine on the title anything being more boring, but in actual fact, it won a prize BAFTA that year for the best instructional film, or something like that. But it fascinated me because the director was a man called Ken Fairburn. Oh, […]
[…]nglish as youSpeaker 2  0:24  got older. Um, what awards Have you won through your lifetime?Speaker 1  0:33  Well, I've run three BAFTA nominations, one for Dr. Fisher of Geneva, one for sugar detective, a one for tenders tonight. And I've got one award for for services to televi[…]
[…]aid magnox. You know, is that your darkness? To me? It's madness. That was the working title never changed. That I did every sort of effect. The best BAFTA I never got. He says modestly, because BAFTA had no category for television effects, film effects, not television effects, has now done then in […]
[…]o.Like the director’s slogging away every night doing the shot list for the next day, you know.Yes, yes. Mm, ah now we come to the piece de, piece de BAFTA, ‘Testament of Youth’.Exactly. [Laughter]How did ‘Testament of Youth’ come about?I had a phone call from, mm, should I introduce that for you ?Y[…]