Jill Balcon (Day-Lewis)

[…] from the sport point of view. He must have been extremely bright. I knew how much he would have liked to go to the university. And was obviously the best possible material for it, but couldn't. What else did I know? I knew that Granny Balcon must have been rather a saint because the old boy my gran[…]

Harry Manley

[…]en on the individual labs did their own negotiations; only 35 staff working at Perivale at time of interview; HM took retirement in 1989 then went to BAFTA as finance director.00:25:12 – 00:34:26 Universal labs came in as a rival to CFS; 16mm wasn’t considered ‘professional’; they had very few perso[…]

Dicky Leeman

[…] going. And I had, eventually about two and a half years with 'Young Woodley'. And I can remember we never repeated a theatre. And later on one of my best jobs was assistant stage manager on the touring production of 'The Miracle', which was with Diana Manners and Glen Byam Shaw, in which I was the […]

John Brabourne (Knatchbull)

[…] things there. And this was his biggest thing he did. He did a wonderful job. Then I suppose I still see a lot of him where he was he is a trustee of BAFTA.Unknown Speaker  38:51  Yes, IUnknown Speaker  38:52  see him.Lord Brabourne  38:55  And he he'd actually working […]

Maxwell Setton

[…]bsp;I suppose there was a film which is mentioned here which is one of the best I made with Aubrey so little time so little time. In fact the leading […]

Fred Tomlin

[…]oped, including Vanessa's performance. All the audio engineers there couldn't have been more complimentary, saying again and again that they were the best results they have ever had with a Stedhiacer[?] microphone." [BA stumbles over name of microphone - helped out by FT - some indecipherable dialog[…]

Angela Allen

[…]rd amount of paper work. If you do it well then the new ones don’t and I really think it is an underestimated job and when I saw that, I think it was BAFTA one year was giving out a prize to production accountants, but quite honestly I don’t think they contributed too much artistically to production[…]

Johnny Speight

[…]w so they could do sod all about it. But he made this terrible attack on the BBC and Tom Sloan in particular. And of course they weren't enjoying the best of company after that. I said well it's 14 BBC Drama, it's not light entertainment. He said OK then, he said come over to the house because this […]

Frances Cockburn

[…]had the chance of knocking the bin over, but I think I think it was you were kept in it was as well as charming as well. Just Just as you passed your best friends.Alright. Oh, yes. And I can remember the the the thing that they were absolutely facile things but when you're when you're very new to th[…]
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