[…]at sort, photographically. That I think was still photography mostly.But he must have... what was the thing that Vic Revell [ph] was attached to, the colonialfilm thing. He must have had some association with the colonial... but you’ll find thatout. Anyway, and then when he came back to England[…]
[…]ke into account because it's much broader. Brief, it's a brief, it's less easy to satisfy. But the newsreels went to the code, which went through the Colonial Office. Shall weMargaret Thompson 16:38 account for what you said, but but do you use to satellites? Or you had the option of usi[…]
[…]minist discrimination at all. I don't know whether I did or not. My discrimination, I thought, was that I wasn't one of the old boy net, that I was a colonial and unsure of myself, not one of the chaps. That's the discrimination I felt. But, that I couldn't say, I don't know how to answer that one. […]
[…]ifficult stories to do always were internal BBC stories. And I remember there was one…the order came down to do a story on some birthday of the Colonial Service, or the Colonial Service, Bush House, and I was sent along and said, “Go and see the man at Bush House who runs the place.” And[…]
[…]hrough my brother I went and got the jobRoy Fowler: How did your brother connect with Alfred JungeMaurice Carter: He was assistant to Alfred Junge on films like xxxRoy Fowler: Although trained as an architect he was in the film industryMaurice Carter: He was a draughtsman, and the need was for / dra[…]
[…]d to fact what they could do is have what they called an annual film magazine, which told the general public who at that time, of course, were mainly colonial, British and German people like that out there, what East African railways and harbours were doing to progress the railways. So we started ma[…]
[…]certainly in the early part of my life, affected the way I thought about things and it was really good, having two cultures, particularly in terms of film. I always, always, loved French films more than English films, or British films. Much later on I was very fortunate in working with Truffaut, on […]
[…] he was asked whether he'd like to go and help set up a shipping company, Scindia Steamship Company, a branch of it in London RG: Was that the Indian colonial government, I mean they were anxious presumably to get rid of him weren't they at that time? Well, no, it was a straight offer from an Indian[…]
[…] when I was 17. He got a job with the Colonial Film Unit. A chap called Bill Sellers was the producer then. […]
[…]r, news events, or what?PS. No, it was a story and everything, and they were shown extensively in film clubs and even in cinemas.DB. Oh, this was the Colonial Film Unit... So this was between the end of the war and going to the BBC.PS. How sad - I think back... So long ago. They were based - or we w[…]
