[…] So Rachael Low's got some missing bits then. Because your first credit at the Bush was "Fire Raisers".Peter Birch : Oh yes, I remember that, Michael Powell.Alan Lawson : Now what was he like to work with?Peter Birch : I had no complaints with any directors really; maybe they took pity on me, I don'[…]
[…]Stéphane was on it with him. Yehudi Menuhin because, so he came. And a wonderful harmonica player called Toots Thielemans, he's Belgian. John Pierone Powell [ph 3B 18:36], Rodney Bennett, Louis Bellson, that was a nice series. And, as I say, he'd done that kind of thing once before, I hadn't done it[…]
[…]ation, I must say I liked it very much. So I had an idea from some Mancunian writers[Side 6, 2 mins]to do it and I booked, goodness who was it, Sandy Powell, the old “Can you hear me mother?” [Powell’s catchphrase] still working the music halls, or the clubsNS: What, in the 1970s?DMW: Yes, Sandy Pow[…]
[…]yway they didn't like me, the people who worked outside London didn't, when I say they didn't like me. There's one man I understand I was up for some award, and it's amazing how these things get back to you, and thisfellow said I will not be party to him getting an award, he never cared for any broa[…]
[…]roducer was Simon Rowson and Jeffrey Rowson, production manager, and all the rest are down in that book you see. Directed by Michael Powell, a Quota Quicky. And I was given the wonderful job of third assistant director at the princely salary of 30 shillings a week. And no overtime.&[…]
[…]rds and he said, if you’d have said in this film that she’d been a Communist, he said none of this would have happened and you’d have got on to awards and we could have got behind you and everything else, anyway, whatever, in my innocence I did nothing, you know, I’m … anyway, there was quite […]
[…]nbsp;Up to you know the late 60s. What were the highlights of you know any awards or any special films that you made or any particular programs that year. […]
[…]was always fairly dicey in that you had to keep the Governorsat bay from 'Sight and Sound' otherwise censorship would have raised its head, thank God DilysPowell was on the side of the angels.Taylor/Peet: Who was on the Board when you went there, King was Chairman?Denis Forman: King was the Chairman[…]
[…]: I thought you said you had a part.Robert Beatty: That was shot here. Just an Indian interior.Roy Fowler: Any memories of the people on that. Mickey Powell was the director.Robert Beatty: Pressburger I think. I did another film. Mickey Powell, was he a difficult man? He would take a hell of a lot o[…]
