[…]John Legard: Oh, we're now talking 1945, end of 1945?Pat Jackson: 1945, we're coming into 1946. And I felt quite sure that the really dramatic story, contemporary dramatic story to be told was in the British zone of Germany. So I got Bernard [?surname?] to go as a British correspondent. I got Metro […]
[…] course, I’d done the continuation of the ‘Plunderers’, which was ‘For Love or Money’ which was an expose´ of the old-master paintings market and the contemporary-art market; which I did with John Percival. So, we did a lot of sale-rooms and quite a lot of interesting expose´ stories with Soth[…]
[…]gh or what, I don't know, I can't remember now. But it all worked out all right in the end you know.Margaret Thomson: And do you know anyone that was contemporary to you? Is there anyone alive that you know of?Charles Wilder: Well I know a chap named Archie Holly, he lives down at Brighton and I thi[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]grom. I mean the British have been nothing if not anti Semitic I think tradtionally. And I remember the sort of interest in German expressionist films at that time, so almost my first memories of cinema apart from my grandmother's birthday which wa[…]
[…]s that were finite, they really happened. And this was the outcome. There was no no two ways about it. He felt he was able to make it but if it was a contemporary subject, he wouldn't even attempt it.Simon Rose 1:23:51 How about his religious views and beliefs? Did you talk about that mu[…]
[…]s that were finite, they really happened. And this was the outcome. There was no no two ways about it. He felt he was able to make it but if it was a contemporary subject, he wouldn't even attempt it.Simon Rose 1:23:51 How about his religious views and beliefs? Did you talk about that mu[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] how you came to be in the film industry?Right. My family consisted of a father who was in the engineering business, who would started making his own films and when he was young man just after the the First World War. So we have a very unusual 16 millimetre stuff. And I became very interested in thi[…]
[…]things I've read and I long to make a short film of that. Of course that was of no interest to anybody in those days.DR: Joan Kemp-Welch did a lot of contemporary material for televisionWT: She was a marvelous, she was doing a Shakespearean play, and she had had a run through and she was speaking ov[…]
