[…]ould say that a comedy of that kind has stature.SPEAKER: M11I thought it had I thought also it said rather a lot.SPEAKER: M13Yes in the theatre about colonialism and yet the situation well there again it's there in a theatrical form in the film it hasn't become a film I suspect. Well that's that's t[…]
[…] thirteen or fourteen, and then my father would take us for a treat each school holidays, and sometimes the theatre, and then he started taking us to films. I mean, the first films I kind of remember were things like Lost Horizon.
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[…]. The similar thing that took place in Indonesia when the British and Americans occupied reoccupied Indonesia and then tried to reintroduce the Dutch colonial government which Shareef Stevens had dealt with in an extraordinary film – the title of which I instantly forget. And in Vietnam of course th[…]
[…]sp;Well although we didn’t call our first interview the first one, with David Francis, this is our second interview with archivists from the National Film and Television Archive in the UK.The copyright in this recording is vested in the British Entertainment History Project and the name of the inter[…]
[…] this is our second interview with archivists from the National Film and Television Archive in the UK . The copyright […]
[…] nation before the war I What was your particular work? Did it I did, I developed a particular interest and the responsibility for a Commonwealth and colonial film production. And indeed, for the Work of the colonial Film Unit, which is now operating from the old GPO premises in Soho square, became […]
[…]rst. This was just post-independence. It was a pristine, newly-independent African country. Brand new parliament building opened by Iain Macleod, the colonial secretary. It was a shining example of how independence worked. I went round the leading schools there. Secondary schools. I learned a lot ab[…]
[…]here, they held a referendum and decided that they would like to be part of Canada. Rather, they were given the choice. The film was sponsored by the Colonial Office, really, I think as a parting gift to Newfoundland, which they didn't particularly want, you know, but they couldn't say that. And the[…]
[…] country. Brand new parliament building opened by Iain Macleod, the colonial secretary. It was a shining example of how independence […]
[…]ghting cameraman and our producer, director, Ronald Neame. Ronald, let's start at the very beginning, you had a parentage that was very active in the film industry of its time. Ronald Neame 0:35 Yes, Roy Fowler 0:36 Elwin Neame your father and yo[…]
