Copyright is vested in the BECTU History ProjectFREDDIE FRANCIS, lighting cameraman, feature film director, interviewer Alan Lawson, recorded on 24 November 1993SIDE 1, TAPE 1Alan Lawson: When and where were you born?Freddie Francis: I was born in the wilds of North London, Barnesbury, north London […]
[…]ossible connections ...Jonathan Balcon  18:30  Daniel, as you know, I've said to Silver Apples that of course I would raise no objection if Channel 4 want Daniel to do the commentary on this programme they are going to make, from a commercial point of view it seems obvious an obvious thing[…]
[…]u know, it was was before. This was in the late 70s. This was 76 where I was at Edinburgh, 7879 and 1980 at the film festival, and it was just before Channel Four started, and just before there began to be an independent film sectorMike Dick  27:16  the next phase. The other thing was quit[…]
[…]g. And true and true, is anyway, so please set up productions went on and prospered reasonably well, with various sponsored films. And of course, now Channel Four had started up. So independents who had been making sponsored films, of course tried to clamber on the bandwagon, together with people wh[…]
Copyright ACTT History Project, Bill Mason, film director, film producer, recorded on 4th October 1987, interviewer Alan LawsonAL: Where were you born.BM: I was born in Edgebaston, which is the snob part of Birmingham on 9th November 1915 .AL : What kind of schooling did you receive.BM: I went to on[…]
[…]nocuous by degaussing, but the acoustic mine had just then appeared too. So, the trawler ahead of us was flying the red sign that it was sweeping the channel. And anyway, we went, without any event at all, we got up to Methil. And...the depressing thing about it was that it was so desperately monoto[…]
[…]ten all about the film because it was in the BFI Programme.MARTIN SHEFFIELD: Yes, they did show the entire thing, it might have been BBC Four or Channel 4 or something. I think I recorded it.NORMAN J. WARREN: Was it at the time of its transmission?MARTIN SHEFFIELD: Yes.NORMAN J. WARREN: Ah yeah[…]
[…]forgotten about all the time. The chairman shows it to the shareholders meeting. And it is crap. Yes. Whereas we're still talking about j at a spring channel more often. Yes, yes. Yes. And I believe it's still in the lending library. Is it? Yes, yes. For as long as the rails got a lot. Yes. Yes. Cer[…]
[…]m. He went back to Rediffusion. He became the Head of Features and, of course, eventually the Director of Programmes and so on, and on to Channel 4, etc. But no doubt the year at the BBC was not a happy one, for him or for the BBC.   Political programmes grew, I sup[…]
[…]ts of Second World War in action so myself and fellow ACT member Peter Handford were dispatched into Northern Europe with a portable Western Electric channel to record authentic sound effects which was rather a dangerous undertaking. We had all our equipment mounted in a little station wagon and we […]
