[…]wanted you to be, we thought you'd be good at it. And so I said, I'm not going to be an SU made me the head of it, and I shall then deconstruct it as best I'm able.Unknown Speaker  5:21  And I was called in at the time, but you know, Ian, Jacob was, I think, the, the DG, and he had a, he g[…]
[…]ause he was instrumental in lots of movies that I did and were wonderful. John Slessinger, all his movies. The first nomination I got for BAFTA was on a John Slessinger picture which was Sunday Bloody Sunday.I am getting to feel quite hot under the collar that I am not mentioning your To[…]
[…], the planning of the festival from the start had agreed it had to include a movie theater, which they named the Telekinema. And this was to show the best of technical achievements of British film and television, and this started a whole new episode in the cinema. The first thing was that Raymo[…]
[…]how business goes on. Television has to change its schedules when something happens.Well in 1963, I was very pleased to get an award. It’s now called BAFTA, but in those days it was called SAFTA.NS: The Guild of television Producers and Directors. This became the Society and Film and Television Arts[…]
[…]he board of headmasters and so the whole thing was a little bit of a pitch and toss. Some things were very good about it, others very bad. One of the best things about it was that I, at an early age, got accustomed to knowing and taking in my stride a lot of non-English people. I had a Siamese frien[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]ther thing I did there was a picture where the Germans and the French were mining and they were coming together and I experiment quite a bit, and the best thing I could find in those days was these long bars of Primrose soap. And I remember sitting up on the spot rail with a bar of Primrose so[…]
[…]echnology of the ‘20s and ‘30s, and so on. We effectively kept the focus on that when it was the film that we chose to select for Memory of the World nomination under the Unesco scheme. 1 hour 15 mins RS: It was also a film that we wanted to do right by in time for the centenary of the war[…]
[…] I’d rather have been James Bond and he could have bloody Six-Five Special. [Laughter] Anytime, anytime. He was a wonderful James Bond too, the best.  MIKE DICK: So tell us a bit about Six-Five Special. It went out live at Lime Grove studios.PETE MURRAY: Live, yes. […]
[…]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[…]
