Interview with Marion GriersonInterviewer: Margaret Thompson MT: This is Margaret Thompson interviewing Marion Grierson; documentary film director, editor reporter, literary editor and writer.these were the professions that she followed in the early years of documentary filmmaking. She later we[…]
[…]ggested why didn’t I go to the BBC, you know, you can work your way up from whatever. So I took a secretarial course and then didn’t get a job at the BBC.Sheila Whitaker Page 7[10:11]SF: Did not get a job with them? Sods.Well, I walked in and the Personnel Officer who was, I mean you could tell[…]
[…]hose days, on the sixth floor. Michael kinchin Smith, who was in the Army during the war, and I can't remember the head of the department, had been a bomber pilot during the war, and we were working with those sort of people. And what was Nick Gilbey 6:17 the role of the e[…]
[…]you can take a long time shooting outside even when the weather's what you want Roy Fowler 39:21 Was Feyder an extravagant director. Did he go to a lot of takes, was he very slow working? Adam Dawson 39:28 I don't know. I mean, I haven't looked a[…]
[…] credit on Scott of the Antarctic (1948). Montagu’s career in film production ran parallel to his work as and film […]
[…]. So that's what that's great. Thank you very much. rode my bike home, went through the door, and the phone rang. Picked it up. And it was definitely Harris. He said, You just came to see me. I said, Yeah. He said, Could you come back tomorrow and start? I said, Yeah. And he said, it's just that var[…]
This recording was transcribed by funds from the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell (Principal Investigator, University of Leeds) and Dr Vicky Ball (Co- Investigator, De Montfort University). (2015).BECTU History ProjectInterview […]
[…]didn't get that job, but the unit ganged up on me and quite rightly, they didn't want anybody in from the there'd been a palace revolution inside the BBC. And and the man who was in charge had got chucked out for being too pro Russian. The fools didn't in the foreign office didn't understand you say[…]
[…]nd down all hours of the night. But I saw an advert in the Daily Telegraph saying that the right organisation we're going to get into the business of filmmaking how they wanted production accountants with a budgetary knowledge well I'd done about four years with the with the Lucas grew up in Burnley[…]
