[…]gets and engineering and so forth, and I felt this was really a tremendous shock to me when he died. I started - as far as going into photography and filmmaking, when I was thirteen. I think for my bar mitzvah I received two box cameras, two cameras, and started with photography and set up a dark ro[…]
[…] There was no musical event at the Hall at all.JS: Go on, I want to find out about how people get educated musically.RA: After that, I wanted to be a film director and I think it was Gaumont British offered a course for £100 where you could be an apprentice and I put this to my father and he refused[…]
[…]ey said, Would I like to join their projection team? And at that particular time, well, for some time, actually, I was never very keen on joining the BBC. I always preferred to work for a smaller company, but my wife persuaded me to go for the interview and take the job. So I rang up my friends and […]
[…]and he doesn’t like women, and he really liked me, andHe was my patron, to me I think ... he got me out of the into being a Director in the BBC.I love him, love him.So, you know, I’m very fond of Ned, or was, as he’s now, asRENÉE GLYNNE: We’re drinking. Or I’m, I mean, you are not dri[…]
[…] material is vested in the BECTU History Project (formerly the ACTT History Project) and the right to publish some excerpts may not be allowed.Esther Harris. Tape 1 Side A1Esther Harris. Tape 1 Side ANB: The time codes given here are estimates based on readings from the original cassette recording.T[…]
[…]ying. But it went down all right, and that was fine Rodney Giesler 24:57Tell me how you actually went around. This is your first film as a director. How did you go about making it? I mean, did Ram Gopal put on a performance for you? And then you worked out in film terms, how you were goin[…]
[…]mypart but I honestly didn't. It wasn't an issue at all.SRYou said that Robert Bolt was a big influence…was this when you first started thinking aboutfilm or journalism?What was your first idea for a career?JBAh, what an interesting idea! What influence did he have? I think he loved noble characters[…]
[…]he floor with tape. And I mostly was on drama and so there I remember what George Moore O’Farrell was my favourite, George was a very, very sensitive director. It's strange how some of them were very, very good indeed but they never made the transition into films, George made some pictures but they […]
[…]ght side of the industry. I sort of halved my salary, becoming an assistant, you know, but it was well worthwhile.What kind of an assistant?Assistant director. And that day and age, now out of interest, in that day and age of coursewe were fighting for an apprenticeship scheme in the industry becaus[…]
[…] said "Well he's down below. Cabin number so-and-so..." So I knocked on the door and he said [puts on a gruff voice] "Who's that?" I said er "Oh, er, BBC..." "Oh. Hang on a minute. Who is it?" I said "Cyril Page." He said "Who?!" I said "Cyril Page." And he came out, and he was in a sweatshirt, cos […]
