[…]treet apparently [laughs] driver-less! But anyway, the other characters you think of, the art department had some great characters in it, people like David Rawnsley who I am sure you must have heard of.Roy Fowler: Oh yes.E.M. Smedley-Aston: And John Mead was also there. The main sort of he[…]
[…]ry Arts programme and so I had some experience of that and I enjoyed that and so I decided that five years was enough doing the Fringe and I spoke to David Johnston, who was Director of Programmes at the time, and he liked the idea so STV hired me as the Arts Correspondent, which meant I had to do s[…]
[…]eah. You're recording now, yeah? 1968, with John Bramall, Neville Stevenson[?], known as Oscar, Bill Cook and myself - we got 'Ryan's Daughter', with David Lean, out in Ireland. And we had all our own equipment on that, as MGM weren't interested because it was um - David Lean had a sort of company c[…]
[…]through the early morning raids come out of the good street station and hear the bombs falling all around me. But I had to get to Humphreys to do the David the rushes and and then I was making marks on his valuable negatives like this with a scribe which is quite frightening when you come to think o[…]
[…]bsp;And that was how it was .. yeah, it was an interesting introduction to television.But I stayed there for three years, and I had a director called David Rea, David C Rea. He had been with Granada as a studio cameraman, and he was a film man really. And I learned so much in those first three years[…]
[…]you were going to do?Roy Fowler:Absolutely, absolutely I think that at the age of 11 I had decided that I was going to be the greatest director since David Wark Griffith it was around that time. My mother always said “He’s film barmy” because I was always trotting off or insisting on bein[…]
[…]or on Heaven Knows Mr. Allison. And jack said to me, Well, you got to do what you want to do. He said but he said to you I'm going to do a picture of David lean Bridge on the River Kwai. And I want you to do it with me. Let's focus. He said, Now, I can't promise you that I give you the job as an ope[…]
[…] war. I've forgotten what he was before he was a director, what was he - a cutter or something?Rodney Giesler : Yes I think so.L.P. Williams : I knew David Lean of course was with us in the 30s at B & D at Elstree.Rodney Giesler : He was actually there was he?L.P. Williams : He was one of our cu[…]
[…]cutive ready to go doctoral ran it and I was running we we had we had David Lean running name and have a cabin in one lot. We had we had Dalrympl[…]