[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
24 Jun 1988The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Sidney Samuelson CBE, Entrepreneur, Chairman of Samuelson Film Service. Interviewer, Alan LawsonSide One.  Q: Sidney, when and where were you born?SAMUELSON: I was born in Paddington in Warrington Crescent I […]
[…] 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[…]
[…]n quite interesting archive material and those actors of those days. Oh,Richard Marden  22:22  indeed. BecauseAlan Legard  22:25  Channel FourRichard Marden  22:27  actors have they hadAlan Legard  22:29  that in the past, haven't they within complete films? T[…]
[…]o children from his previous marriage, and so I was part of a family for the first time, which was lovely. Then, when the war ended, we came back in ’45 and I went back to Heron’s Ghyll. But by then I was fourteen, and I was very happy. I’d grown up, I was readied, I was quite independent by then, a[…]
[…] fairly typical product of Madras education public school, which was actually a Catholic monastery. Which Ampleforth and was due to go to Oxford in 1940. But in fact, events meant that they went into the Air Force in 1940. And beforethe had one of the first ever air type version of the Officers Trai[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
