[…]when I was twelve and then we went on the National Assistance in those days which was horrendous. And when I was fifteen - I was sitting in the cinema, the one escape we had, getting back to this, and harping on about that programme with Ken Russell and quite a lot of other people in my genera[…]
[…]a movie for Paramount and having terrible fights with them about the unnecessary hours they will working. And during this there was a sort of classic cinema in Boston called Coolidge Corner and they had various seasons, and while I was there they had two weeks of a Freddie Francis Season with films […]
[…]. But there were sheets and sheets of it you know, and it doesn't mean anything in the end. You get it back and that's it and the final VAT is on the cinema ticket you see, so it's just an exercise that you've got to do. And one or two of the accountant's have been taken to court because they haven'[…]
Transcribed by Graeme Hobbs.SIDE ONEThis recording, is vested in the ACTT [Association of Cinematograph and Television Technicians] history project. Jack Gold, film and television director, interviewers, Norman Swallow and Alan Lawson, recorded on the 27th February, 1990, side 1. NS Going […]
[…]sp;I was at school and when I was at Eccles I used to go to the local cinemain Eccles called the Crown I remember every Friday evening without fail and itwas&nb[…]
[…]ut mostly now you had stop being involved in film production and you were editing this new journal called World Film News which I gather had replaced Cinema Quarterly as a vehicle for the whole documentary ideal and movement and to review films that were coming out? MG: Yes, World FIlm Ne[…]
[…] work. Then Mary Field was his co-producer, I suppose, and made a number of very, very successful films on nature study subjects, which went into the cinemas. And she was very well known, well, quite famous, really, in that field. Then, of the other directors there, there were a number of peopl[…]
[…]t. I think the only one of the few people who was ever kicked upstairs?Speaker 2 16:24 It's interesting Dougie, because it means all your cinematography, you had to learn on your own. Had to learn mySpeaker 3 16:31 own way. I learned it the hard way, which is well, as I say, […]
