[…]ht, What's he going to say? So he said, he said, You're a very good camera man. He said, That's photographically Very good. He said, But you're a bad director.Unknown Speaker  31:51  So I said, Director, you know, they're all little wooden figures. So he said, wooden or whatever they are, […]
[…]in the ... something to do with films." Because he was keeping tabs on it all as he wanted to find a client for himself. They said they wanted an Art Director. I went along. Now to me luck is the only thing worth bothering about Well, there I was . . .  Ralph Hanbury rang me up and asked me to […]
[…]mandy we had a Boston which we used for filming all sorts of strikes around the time of , it could operate with the other Bostons, it was a low level bomber.We made hundreds of aircraft recognition films. Funny enough it was developed by Technicolor by George Gunn, didn't he get an OBE for it, he di[…]
[…]then Harry quite liked my work. My editing work and he thought I might become a director one day. So he said, I'd quite like to do a film with you as director. And we worked on the script, but it didn't come to anything. We couldn't, obviously couldn't launch it. The next move I made was to Pinewood[…]
[…]this is a piece of cake." And fortunately I eventually I got the job of Floor Manager with a fellow called Bill Ward who was a senior Producer at the BBC. And of course, when ATV started he was the man that Lew Grade picked, and Val Parnell picked to organise the television side. And of course Bill […]
[…]n’t have the knowledge to argue, I mean I could argue about left and right but no way could I sort of say well that was a terrible performance to the director. Also directors actually in those days were really, they were far better trained technically than they are today, I mean they didn’t come on […]
[…]o was head of documentaries I presume. So that was an independent production made for the BBC. So we did several like that                 &[…]
[…]bin Mukherjee. We were introduced to Robin Mukherjee, M, U, K, E, R, j, e, e. Robin Mukherjee was a writer at that time on casualty, which was on the BBC. And Robin said, Oh yes, I've got somebody in my writing circle who's got a very nice script. So we met this guy whose name I can't remember. I'm […]
[…]on’t get a lot of parts with an accent.SF: No, of course, not.So he’d gone and taken elocution lessons.SF: Yes.And risen through the ranks-ish in the BBC.SF: Yes.Started as a floor manager.SF: Yes.And worked in the BBC. So when I met him he’d just made a little film, I think I was about... How old w[…]
[…]ries of four short films called Quartet, the Somerset Maugham stories.Charles Drazin: Was Harold French um...Manny Yospa: I can't remember the actual director. Cecil Parker was in the -Charles Drazin: Yes.Manny Yospa: I remember 'The Colonel's Lady'.Charles Drazin: Were you very much aware of the pr[…]
