Margaret Thompson 0:11 The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT history project we're interviewing Francis Cockburn I spell the name C O C K B U R N, who started life in the film industry as an editor became a producer and finally information officer interviewer is Margaret […]
The Desmond Dickinson interviews were conducted over two sittings in 1963 (1 tape 2 sides) and 1972 (2 tapes 3 sides). (Note on the BECTU website: Unfortunately, both interviews are periodically interrupted by breaks in the tape. It is unclear whether this is the due to censorship or to the recordin[…]
[…] you had to get into this enormous hood on the camera. I was in my late thirties, but had to play […]
[…] much so. I used to cart around a full plated camera. It was an old Sinclair and it had four stops […]
[…] department, Val Gielgud’s department, had developed a documentary… well, the features department of the drama division, let’s call it that, […]
[…]d in something either in photography or painting or whatever, and I specialised in filmmaking and I was making art films with a clockwork Bolex 16 mm camera. SPEAKER: M? [Paul Collard]Fantastic. SPEAKER: F? [Carol Owens]It was absolutely and I was also learning about cinema history as well[…]
[…]ry far from where we were in Finchley. And he decided he was going to try and make children's films. Now, he had a small 16mm camera, which is just a camera. And he decided he was going to make animated films. So he made an animation table, the movement of the camera up and down was governed by a bi[…]
[…]the early sixties...Peggy Gick: No...John Legard: But then, how long did you carry on with doing the intensive um...Peggy Gick: Well I went back into features at the end of '59...John Legard: Ah right, yes.Peggy Gick: ...to do...oh what was the film? 'The Day They Robbed the Bank of England'... And […]
[…]ch organic left he was so good today as well. I mean the best. So we had a lot of very bright pictures organic lift. It is who's gain is an excellent camera. I used to get people and the annoying part was we used to get people and we had a lot of people come through who joined us and stayed a six mo[…]
[…] was in charge ,he was either programme controller or head of current affairs or something like that. He was a wonderful man. He had gone through the features and documentary department. And we used to do this programme. It was a director called Geoffrey Hughes. it was live every evening after[…]
