[…]d did your view of the BBC at that stage was it shared by others, your colleagues? Philip Donnellan: There was one, there was one chap who'd been a a bomber pilot in the air force during the war and he'd been shot down in 1940 and he’d spent five years in in a prison camp. And he came back from the […]
[…] at the BBC, at the BBC Television newsreel. And that really was the next thing I did. I applied to do some holiday relief writing at the BBC. And much to my surprise I was taken on and I came up to AP, I mean, we were honestly too poor to take a holiday, children had arrived, one…[…]
[…]ort of films.’ Or ‘I don’t want him because he’s,’ you know, this.
Mhm.
But, I don’t think I’ve come across...
Well the ambition was to be a director. What happened there, did you abandon it, or did it abandon you?
I abandoned it really. I could have been a director. I could be a directo[…]
[…]fied the incorrect placement of the reels in terms of continuity of the storyline and were able to restore the true chronology intended by the film’s director. We also ensured we put a clear note in each affected tin warning the projectionist at the next cinema using our print to make them aware of […]
[…]perience my life, flying with three Lancasters in tight formation at patchy ground level, over tree tops, and I fought for mostly from the Wellington bomber gunners tower, where you completely open, where I could swing on 180 degrees and over the intercom, I would give instructions, and there was co[…]
[…]possible. But John Jameson proved to be a very fine editor.SPEAKER: M1Another film editor we had there who was a great influence on me later was Jack Harris. Now Jack was not a regular Ealing ite. He wasn't on the under contract to Ealing. He was freelance. And normally they didn't employ freelance […]
[…]ething.” This poor chap used to go and home, come back and you can imagine what [LAUGHTER]Although he was a great comedian, Hitchcock, he was a great director. And when he did the first ‘talkie’, Blackmail, you were talking about any post-synching going on, well there, Anny Ondra, I have a fee[…]
[…]s too low to be a good actor, but I was over Tony Garnett and Tom Courtenay, when I was at University College London, but I was quite a good producer-director. And I wanted to take that path, and in fact spent my first post-graduate job was with a touring theatre in Norway. A state touring theatre i[…]
[…] bit like some parts of the air force such as Bomber Command. It wasn't till the end of the first […]
[…]im. He said oh wonderful dear boy. So I got off a plane in Los Angeles and went to see him in Century City And he hired me to do a movie with Richard Harris. But the union people weren't too happy although I met union people there and they were going to slide me into the union quite happily. They di[…]
