[…]a quickie, run-of-the-mill thrillers, you know. I mean one canphysically remember... there was one with Frank Muir and Denis Norden, which was a comedy. The second one was... the first one was a thriller, the second one – I’d forgottenthat one, yes – Frank Muir, and everybody was[…]
[…]y… I mean there are a few you know who can’t but then you don’t mind those ones and they always… quietly… you know, fully admit it to me you know the comedy ones. But the Americans on the whole are very good at that where I think because they are trained in film techniques. And walking and movement […]
[…]bsp;Indeed, my daughter Eva is a client of Maggie Parker. And I was sent to the old ABC Studios at Welwyn Garden City for a part in a West of England comedy called A Farmer's Wife. Here's a bit of film history for you now. And it was a very makeshift sort of tin roof waiting room with wooden benches[…]
[…] on that show, I think was when Barry Humphries was starting, with his Edna Everage, and Mike Palin, Terry Jones were doing their first little films, comedy films, so, although while the old were waning out like Fortune and Bird, and all that - were sort-of now being a little over-familiar, these ne[…]
[…]bsp;good. Some were not good.One of the best I thought was the one on situation comedy. It wasgood. News and current affairs wasn't bad. Drama so so.American orientated. […]
[…]moved from Ryde.John Aldred: Yes we were living near Hayes, Middlesex, at the time. I went along on the Monday morning and the first production was a comedy called Wanted with Zazu Pitts and Claude Dampier. I was very impressed when I saw the first day's rushes - I didn't know what rushes were till […]
Manny Yospa 0:13 This is the ACTT History Project. The date is the 20th of July, 1989 and this is Manny Yospa interviewing Albert. Critoph okay, Albert,Albert Critoph 0:31 shall I start? Okay,Manny Yospa 0:36 you've got it so, sort of I was good to ask you, […]
[…]esponse measure up? No Film Unit has ever used images for such a variety of purposes, nor has such a variety of styles, from cinema verite to cartoon comedy being used before by a single team in a single area, the films have been cut, have been literate and, as a rule, technically impeccable, the po[…]
[…]er was a screening of Streets Scene? Melville Rice's play directed by King Vidor. went to the cinema, one of them was one of these Tom was Ralph Lin, comedy, and then Streets Scene then Streets Scene was a revelation to me. I could see how bad the Tom Walls thing was, and how vital Streets Scene was[…]
