[…]ad given me some stockings which his father had brought from Germany, pre-war Dior stockings, and I have still got them, but haven’t touched them for 40 years, I think. So, I always liked a good lens, that was the reason why in most of my earlier films I shot on a rackover Mitchell camera because th[…]
[…] they weren't masked - two things, they did them with masks and without, you see?AL: Did you do the whole thing?Kay Mander: No, only this side of the channel - channel? - the Atlantic. What else have I done? Well then I worked with Francois Truffaut, I did 'Fahrenheit 451' and that was great, that w[…]
[…]oducer who was creative.RF: It was by rote and by predjudice…?VG: Simply that he had been a showman and he was still a showman and his whole mind was channelled into what was showmanship, not what was good movie necessarily, but what was showmanship.RF: Where there others at Pinewood in those days w[…]
[…]he said that he thought it was a great privilege that he'd been selected to run the unit. And that, you know, he regarded himself merely as a sort of channel between us and the authorities, and that he was there to look after us and to protect us from too much ministerial interference, which, in fac[…]
[…] perhaps a forerunner of what was to come later.Norman Swallow: And you still kept that view because I was thinking when you mentioned John Ford, the Channel 4 thing you did from the National Film School.Lindsay Anderson: That's right, Clementine. Clementine was the film which way back in about 48, […]
[…] because I was thinking when you mentioned John Ford, the Channel 4 thing you did from the National Film School. […]
[…]at kind of production wasSpeaker 2 39:57 that that was so. The Portman quintet productions. So it was an independent production with four channel four. I believe that tie up with Channel FourUnknown Speaker 40:22 was that another location?Unknown Speaker 40:23 Tha[…]
[…]ecause I appeared to be a very willing, running-type assistant, they put me with Jack Lee on his first film, which was to be shot in Dover and on the channel during the Battle of Britain. It was called The Pilot is Safe, it was a five-minuter, and it was about the air-sea rescue boats. And I went wi[…]
[…]first experiments. And we do have those now as Ray said really do but I like that. Well I'm sorry the public should see them I feel however.SPEAKER: M4But that was your first experiment and that went on for a little while. But you you you you said that you read Life magazine is that right. Yeah. And[…]
