[…] and went to tactical film and said, well, there's your film, there's only one thing I've got to ask and that is that john hollows name remains on as director. And Ireally thought it was such an injustice and quiteapart from this would have been nonsan absurd to have my name martyrs. Who the hell wa[…]
[…]d I've been fortunate – fortunate with the grammar school, fortunate with my parents, fortunate to find the BBC even find the right department of the BBC. Fortunate to meet up with Hugh Carleton Greene and all those superb intellectuals the capacities of everybody there and to indeed to have joined […]
[…]e directors too had ideas on the subject...I mean, [some of the] more creative directors?Peggy Gick: Oh yes! Well you wanted to have a chat with your director...trouble is with some of them to get them to communicate.John Legard: And did you have your favourite lighting cameraman to do your work jus[…]
[…]process has become so complex? [20.00 mins]WR: I don't think the complexity makes much difference, it might, but it so much depends on the director. LH: One of the things I think somehow escapes, and it might even be an improvement, now that you have to have, particularly on big film[…]
[…]he sound director was Sash Fischer, another legendary figure who used to wear a dagger inside his socks, I don't know what for, perhaps to attack the director. The picture was finished and we were dubbing it and we didn't know this at the time but the director, George Cukor was an absolute terror at[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] I say in the first months of 1956 January, February, March and wegot sort of agents working amongst people like Rank and we didn't want any from the BBC. Therewas a veto on anyone who worked for the BBC. We didn't want the BBC practices, we thought thatthey were over-manned and so forth. But we got[…]
[…] people like Rank and we didn't want any from the BBC. There was a veto on anyone who worked for the […]
[…] do a broadcast from there once a week for the BBC. And one day, in the mornings this was - the […]
[…]..Alan Lawson: Was it Sandy McPherson?David Robson: No, it was - Jimmy Bell, Jimmy Bell. And we used to do a broadcast from there once a week for the BBC. And one day, in the mornings this was - the cleaners had to be dead quiet during the half an hour transmission - and there was a cue system. They[…]
