[…]of the new techniques - hand-held cameras, stocks, etc - meant that you could actually record an event or a situation, and think afterwards about the best structure for it. Didn’t mean to say you wouldn’t have an idea, or a narrative idea in your head, but it left things much more fluid, which were […]
[…]is garage had a marvellous workshop, it had everything, milling machines, everything in it. And he let me have the service of his foreman, he was the best engineer I've ever met in my life, and the whole workshop for a pound a day, so all I had to do was pay for the materials. So we stripped this ca[…]
[…]f an attitude in England that, of looking down on other nations and other peoples. And I felt that um, I've always felt that if we could bring in the best films from these - from other countries, and people would see these films here, and today of course it's also being seen by millions on televisio[…]
[…]nd we were leaving on Monday morning. So we did what we had to do on the Sabath day and then we got into the bar on the Sabath evening and we did our best to satisfy the barman.SC : 14 of them I think.CC: I don't know, we did pretty well. The next year I was fishing across the strait between Harris […]
[…]it in really being a filler. I don't know if it would be interesting just to read what was said, 'The British short film Doss House is to my mind the best cinema - entertainment in London this week, I suggest if you're still distrustful of British film s you'll leave the Empire hopeful’, that was th[…]
[…]Well it's changed the union a great deal, of course.Well that's it, I think it has. Because it's now really it's, it's all geared, it's like with the BAFTA awards and all those sort of things I get so upset about, it's all about television. I mean, film, it was the film...Y es.Awards, let's face it,[…]
DICKIE BEST Tape 1 of 115th July 1987.Interview of Richard Best, editor, interviewer Arthur Graham.Copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project.SIDE 1, TAPE 1AG: Richard, where and when were you born.DB: I was born in Hull in 1916 and brought down to London at an earlyage, about[…]
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[…] you see. And he said, "I think it would be best if you followed your cousin Patrick into the Church […]
[…] never repeated a theatre. And later on one of my best jobs was assistant stage manager on the touring production […]
