[…]rt of the film industry still exists where a lot of it is word of mouth, and they'll give you a brief or they'll send you the whole breakdown for the crowd, for the film, and ask you then to send suggestions over for the different roles. And you have to to bear in mind, if it's a period drama, the c[…]
[…]was a little problem of keeping this width that you're then we're seeing, you know, out of people as a director, my main duty was to lean against the crowd behind the camera man so they didn't nudge him and on one particular occasion trying to clear this wodgh I picked up because I quite often did y[…]
[…] the time. I've always been very friendly with the documentary crowd, I've a lot of time for. They used to […]
[…] it was called then in Cambridge, called the Festival Theatre. I was engaged as assistant stage manager and understudying the leads, going on in many crowd scenes and small parts, and quite a cast. Flora Robson was the leading lady, Tony Guthrie was the young director, and Robert Donat w[…]
[…]. The absurdity is when I was dressed up as Arabic my wife was in the crowd she didn't know who I was. I went behind and tickled touched her and […]
[…]se I think television because I think television is pretty bureaucratic and hierarchic.I'd done a play for television, late Seventies was it, The Old Crowd.Norman Swallow: 79Lindsay Anderson: 79. That was a script, because Stephen Frears whom I'd known from way back was producing a series of five or[…]
[…] a play for television, late Seventies was it, The Old Crowd. Norman Swallow: 79 Lindsay Anderson: 79. That was a […]
[…]ny, and we were working on films for the War effort. We went, we took charge of the Polish film unit, who were in Denham labs at that time, very nice crowd of people. And there was a very good director called Cekalski, I think that's C- E-K-A-L-S-K-I, Cekalski. And their editor was Stefan Osiecki, O[…]
[…]h with to some extent after the war as well. And, they were Dutch Navy, flying land-based aircraft, nevertheless. And they were all a very, very good crowd. Now, the odd thing was that while I'm quite sure that none of the officers that I knew and certainly none of the troops, because they wouldn't […]
[…]suppose.Speaker 2 1:05:27 Yes, women in love. Yes, that was that was. That was great fun. I had previously worked on Far from the Madding Crowd at Shepperton Studios as a sound assistant. And weirdly enough, I'm not quite sure why, but I did get to know Alan Bates. Okay, and then women i[…]
