[…]nd to drag an awful lot. Yeah I know a lot of the big features. Yes. They didn't seem to add an awful lot. So often we'd come out of the screening at BAFTA and we just said Well that would have been a marvelous song if any it had been half an hour or 40 minutes shorter.SPEAKER: M8And you could see w[…]
[…] 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 […]
[…]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[…]
[…]o turn away from it thinking that it's it's a hatchet job or anything like that. Anyhow, the long the short of it is that the film did well, it got a BAFTA nomination.Unknown Speaker 22:04 Alongside oddly enough 10 rasa with whom I've worked asUnknown Speaker 22:09 a system. […]
[…]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 […]
[…]s full Assistant when I was made up was a film called “Public School” and the Editor was Paul Carter, the Director was Jonathan Gili and Paul won the BAFTA Craft Award for “Public School” and was was kind enough to share his prize with me. So that was that was delightful.SPEAKER: M2 [Paul Collard]So[…]
[…]nt to a local school and then I went to the Manchester Grammar School. And from there I went to Keebles College, Oxford, a degree in modern history. Then military service, in the army, Duke of Cornwall'sLight Infantry, I'd never been t[…]
[…]actory, which was in Stoke Poges which was very close, and within a year she had been made a director of the company, and so it was the obvious place for them to live, so- DB: Why was she made a director of the firm? PB-C: Because my grandfather had actually started the company during the […]
[…]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[…]
