[…]Anyhow. Rugby gave me the chance of one extremely sympathetic young visit now to read was much older than me. who encouraged me to listen to a lot of contemporary music kind of passion then for devious and Warlock and Walton ballrooms his Fourth Symphony. Now I'm not quite sure the day to date, it c[…]
[…]th films now for five, six years. Because nobody wants me to.Glyn Jones 28:01 That's a good point going.John Wiles 28:04 Back contemporary.Glyn Jones 28:09 Okay, you did get a little bit of work for television.John Wiles 28:13 I can. Yeah, well, I was […]
[…]tography does need a specialist.PF: So your next film, Melody, which I believe was with Waris Hussain. Again, a lot of location, but this time a contemporary film around London.PS: I haven’t got anything special to say about that, except I’ve never been able to work out why it was so popular in[…]
[…]al and international responsibilities in, as, as, as er - organisations operating in the public interest and they should look at the whole concept of contemporary life from the point of view of the service which they were trying to offer and so Shell was offering oil for lubrication and as a fuel, a[…]
[…] modern touch to it. And he dreamt up this sort of beginning to account for the flag of the moon when the astronauts got there. They find a again the contemporary sense they find the flag which is part of the Victorian expedition that's carried by game to that would be a world then we were able to g[…]
[…]re you are dependent on libraries. And it works. people accept it, you can make a good documentary out of archive material. But when you are shooting contemporary subjects, realistic contemporary subjects, should the buggers yourself, shoot them yourself. And if you don't know what a sequence is, th[…]
[…]DB: No, just straight education.AG: You left when you matriculated.DB: Yes, I think it was the school certificate.AG: What made you decide to go into films.DB: I think it's exactly the same as children today watching television,they all want to be in television. I was absolutely film mad. Iwas taken[…]
[…]drinkingwhisky, a lot of playing bridge. A lot of reading but not on the subject I was studying, I made astudy of Johnson and I made a study of seven contemporary composers in the music schools. I didnothing whatsoever to do with the academic work I was meant to be doing so I didn't do much ofthat a[…]
[…]againand they all said “It’s very nice but it’s short. What can we do with a short film. Butthey all turned me down apart from Charlie Cooper who ran Contemporary Films andhe said “I’ll take it for you Norman because I could certainly get it on in the universities and those sort of outlets.” Yo[…]
[…] You said earlier you wouldn’t necessarily use the word documentary, but you earlier said documentary was pretty much dead after the war. And being a contemporary I felt at the time good something has happened again, thank God for that, it was Free Cinema I mean that's what happened. You may not hav[…]
