[…]em to warn them they might hear from this gentleman.This is already, when they were in, in the...?They were...19Offices off...They'd just moved in to British Lion.Ah.It was ’61 I think it was, when they all got together, that time, then. I went to see John and Roy who both, luckily, happened to[…]
[…]04:00 [laugher] all together as it contained both sexes and also it was the time when there were a lot of intermarriage between the Indians and British service people, and there were a lot of Anglo-Indian children at this school and they were very disturbed because if they happen to have come […]
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[…]d Lowe, the famous David Lowe. And then we did a film for the Air Force, and a number of other ministry's. Once finished, then industry picked on us, British Petroleum, Shell and then we moved in a big way into public relations films and this is practically where you came in because we were together[…]
[…]t was full anyway. And frankly, it was only when Peter told them that he'd been offered a job by Transport. Edgar had moved to Transport by then. RG: British Transport Films. SE: that they eventually said, "No, no, don't, you know, you'll be a director writer," ...he'd done a bit of directing here a[…]
[…]our movie, they would still work in the same way, and do their homework before they arrived on the floor in the morning. TB: Are there any British directors who...? AY: Erm, erm, British directors’ erm, well only of late. But the Hammer, the Hammer, Terry Fisher for insta[…]
[…]fax: Gentleman, which was a famous book by a woman named Mrs. Craik. I played John Halifax when young, and a guy named Fred Paul, who was by way of a British film star, played him when he was older. So I was in films, I'd forgotten that, yes! But I don't think I was quite up there with Mickey Rooney[…]
[…] included in... They were the pre-planning of the jury selection committees. I did my share of those.Kay Mander: That would be for what, for the BFA, British Film Academy days? Or BAFTA?Joy Batchelor: BAFTA. And abroad too. I was on the Venice Film Festival, and one in Portugal, one in Spain. There […]
[…]times a week! [Chuckles] Roy Fowler: Yes. In those days what kind of comparison, as a filmgoer, did you make between the Hollywood films and the British films? Andy Worker: Well they were all good - in fact they were all better than they are today I think. And you know, one had favourites […]
[…] and they wrote back and said no, we will pay you (laughs). I couldn't get over it; we will pay you nine pounds a week2 Roy Oxley (1899-?) was a British production designer at the BBC, he won a BAFTA for his work on The Portrait of a Lady in 1969.3 Peter Bax was a production desi[…]
