[…]t not keeping stuff that they should have. And I was playing around and I love musicals, as I say tap dancing, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and under Powell, I could watch them day on I see them time and time and time again, and never get dull, never get bored. But I found all these optical click tr[…]
[…]now and Billy Williams came in and supervised the grade on that and subsequently Billy then showed it to the whole BSC showed it at BAFTA got a BAFTA award. It’s fantastic that these films can be made to look like they’re brand new, and that’s the wonder of Eastmancolor.SS: Do you have any choice, i[…]
[…]at was? R: I think they've made a huge contribution. You only have to look back at all the programmes that they've made over the years. A lot of award-winning programmes at that. Again, going back to what I call the 'Golden Era' of STV, they did some incredible Dramas back then, which I happily[…]
[…]me stuff with the band at their home and some sort of stuff, it was a documentary, basically, about them but with their concert. I: It won a few awards, didn't it, that programme? R: It did, yeah, it won a BAFTA. I: How did you, you must be quite...? R: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely![…]
[…]t, the last four. And at last, with WILD WINGS, which wasn't the best of them, to be nominatedreally, but this - it got an Oscar. And we got a lot of awards for that er - Venice, we had the main British Film Academy Award, I think, three years.. And the Venice, main Venice award on three, three or f[…]
[…]n on a subject. So Ted Heath came and we had politicians come in but they would give us a biased report on something that they thought was right. Er, Powell came in, we had a whole, Ken Loach came in and he did, when Ken Loach he couldn’t get work anywhere he was doing ads in fact. Erm, he came in a[…]
[…]'d recruited and everything because we weren't really accepted in for a long time, that actually this had to be recognised. And the ABS used to do an award at their conference every year called the Leslie Littlewood Trophy. Did you hear about this? RL: 4:26 Leslie Littlewood- GM[…]
[…]f Monte Cristo because of course, he, you know, about actors and scripts and things. And, mm, many, many years later when I was working with Jonathan Powell we did The Woman in White and as we were casting it, mm, the suggestion came up that Alan Badel should play Count Fosco, and I think I went pal[…]
[…]bly will call it. I know in fact that you must have filmed in pretty well every continent in the world, including Antarctica. And apart from a lot of awards for your films, you also have four nominations for Hollywood Academy Awards, in the live action short subject category, which I think is unique[…]
[…]ca. Yes.SPEAKER: M14Another film that was taken away from me went NC by Elmer Williams Believe it or not the man who did High Noon and got an Academy Award for it. Yes.SPEAKER: M8Who. Who was running Fox at the time here and had a cutting room constructed next to his office since I was queer so I sa[…]
