[…]d my first introduction, even to the so called New cleaned up arrangements for annual conference, was Cummings fixing it so that through the SOC Rory nomination was discounted. I remember so well urgent telephone calls from the SOC meeting on a Sunday in Alan's office, back to Alan and referring to […]
[…]ile I was at it. And so I had this this, in fact, my desires were really transmuted into civil engineering at that point, because it seemed to be the best thing to do in the light of the situation in the war. And it was, I suppose, halfway through my two years college That the opportunity to switch […]
[…]ad to wait in the stalls while he completed what he was doing and I was absolutely amazed to hear the way he addressed star artists, people like Edna Best. He treated his stars like dirt.AL: Going back to the early days what were production techniques like? How much did they change over the years?SC[…]
[…] do wish you’d work’. And I’d say ‘I’m doing my best’, I’d got no money so I had to work […]
[…] never repeated a theatre. And later on one of my best jobs was assistant stage manager on the touring production […]
[…] hear the way he addressed star artists, people like Edna Best. He treated his stars like dirt. Alan Lawson: Going […]
[…] and Goodbye Mr Chips (1969) following in quick succession. Pumpkin Eater (1964) won a BAFTA for Best Black and White Cinematography in 1964. He […]
[…]re not normally allowed to listen back to it – mainly because there wasn’t time – you had to get on with the recording… I used to try and do my best to let members of the groups and the artists themselves and the musical director to take part in the decisions on whether it was OK with them and[…]
[…] and, you know, we had a good, good life. We really did. We helped each other. We've, when we won our major awards, we won them at the same time, the BAFTA Awards. We rarely work together, only at the end when we made two films in India. And we did some... a script on something else and Steel. But a[…]
[…]ia Wolfe’s nephew.SF: Yes.Took me on one side and said, well, he kept saying to me during my finals ‘I do wish you’d work’. And I’d say ‘I’m doing my best’, I’d got no money so I had to work in a theatre full-time as a lighting electrician to earn the money to stay at university.SF: Good Lord.And he[…]
