[…] one of the most influential figures in the history of British television. Leaving school at 14, he entered the entertainment […]
50 Years of British TV Documentaries: A Diary of Decline, by a film editor – Simon Rose 2014 With his unique perspective […]
[…]you once the films out’. We were all absolutely correct. All the technicians were paid. How was it funded? Erm, well there was American and British Animal Welfare Charities; RSPCA; British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection; Millennium Guild in New York. There’s a much more developed a[…]
[…] interesting than Hadrian's Wall. So, one thing led to another and I got a job in London and beginning in 1952. And as you say, I worked in the short British short film industry and making documentary films are largely of a sponsored nature until 1992. And the great majority of that time was as Writ[…]
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[…]ts but I didn’t anyway.And then, and I think it must have been after he left that he rang up and I couldn’t gobecause he was offered a job at Gaumont British Instructional and he went to work in the cutting rooms and the library was a lot duller.Was that Mary Fields?That’s right, yes, and he was, th[…]