[…]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 […]
Brian Pritchard (BP) Motion Picture Consultant (Formerly Kodak, Filmatic, Humphries & Hendersons) Interviewer: Paul Frith (PF) Date 05/03/2019 Length 02:17:14PF: This is an interview with Brian Pritchard. Thank you for taking part in the interview today. So just to star[…]
[…]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 […]
[…] and opened the film unit, became a director, the First Director. He was hoping it would be a nucleus for the […]
[…] as I say, a cooperative unit. The chief producer was Donald Alexander, and other producers were Jack Chambers, Jack Holmes. Budge Cooper was a director. Francis Gysin was a director, later head of the Coal Board Film Unit. I can't remember any other names offhand. INTERVIEWER: Well, that[…]
[…] so many seconds to get up to speed and into sync and you couldn’t hurry it.CR: Obviously you collaborated with your team, and other teams within the BBC. Did you have much liaison with personnel outside the corporation? So, directors or distributors, film producers who were…TE: Certainly people at […]
[…]in Gloucester Road in Bristol and bought myself my first camera which was an Exa 500 German Single Lens Reflex Camera and a few rolls of transparency film but the guy on the shop was very much an enthusiast and he did his own pictures, he showed me some wonderful shots obviously he’d taken and that […]
[…]known, fairly well known in Poland. He was a poet, film director and a writer and he organised and opened the film unit, became a director, the First Director. He was hoping it would be a nucleus for the resumption of film activities in Poland after the war. This was his idea of starting it. And a n[…]
[…]needed a catalogue or anything.ANNE HANFORD: No, no. I have to say that idea went on for many years including very renowned people in the BBC. I remember Paul Fox saying to me “Well I can remember all the programmes I made, so why do you need a catalogue?” basically. So, it w[…]
[…]rom the mountains. It smells wonderful. Anyway, the enduring the war they needed to get timber because they couldn't be imported to Aberdeen from the Baltic Sea because of the torpedoes and ships being sunk and all that. So they were cutting down their own the forests in Scotland. And they got Canad[…]
