[…]hot one feature film in which the principal actor, who shall be nameless, would not rehearse. And so when it came to what the scene was, you askedthe director. The soundman would say, "Well if he goes in that corner, will he say anything?" He'd say, "Well no I don't think - well he might." And this […]
[…]p, high up number doesn't matter, doesn't matter. And the first one was at strategy Hall, I think.Speaker 1 18:25 Forget whether that was bomber or fighter. Anyway, one for the Bomber Command, one for the wifeUnknown Speaker 18:35 with Felicity, somebody or other. She was the[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]ey made a very big propaganda film called 'The Lion has Wings' for which there were three directors: Mickey Powell did the fighter section, I did the bomber section and Carol Reed did the romantic stuff with Merle Oberon in the studio, they were the three directors of the movie. And it was after tha[…]
[…]ery well but I can't imagine that was his first film.John Taylor: No it wasn't, no.Margaret Thomson: It wasn't?John Taylor: He was a well-established director. He started with Box and made a lot of films with.Margaret Thomson: Well he started with Gaumont [?] actually.Charles Wilder: Oh did he? Yes.[…]
[…] - when I first got this assignment from Spot News, they asked me to contact BBC news to work out and to get a liaison agreement between Spot and the BBC. This was in '52. And the BBC then, their newsreel was a magazine programme that they used to produce up at Alexandra Palace and it was the first […]
[…]ks, I think his name was, he was the same name as the actor...Sidney Cole: ...as the actor.Tilly Day: ...actor, yes. It was the New Zealand director...Sidney Cole: New Zealand director, was he?Tilly Day: Yes. He was the director of 'You must get Married' [actually, A. Leslie Pear[…]
[…]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[…]
Copyright ACTT History Project, Bill Mason, film director, film producer, recorded on 4th October 1987, interviewer Alan LawsonAL: Where were you born.BM: I was born in Edgebaston, which is the snob part of Birmingham on 9th November 1915 .AL : What kind of schooling did you receive.BM: I went to on[…]
