[…]he great wombs of animation, turning out all these little babies, you've got the OBE and your laden down with honours and prizes and life achievement awards and you’ve got an EMMY from our American friends, so your great talents are recognised worldwide and it has been a remarkable life, quite remar[…]
[…]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.&[…]
[…] to go to the Canadian thing, you know. And then a few weeks later, and I did try and Remon straight about it, he'd been invited to the Canadian Tony Awards that was explained to us. We had many English technicians working there, it might be a good idea if he turned up at this award. He had friends […]
[…]: 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[…]
[…] in the studio at that time?WR: Not much about Colonel Blimp. [Pause] I have far more recollections about The Way Ahead, the Carol Reed thing. Mickey Powell was a very strange man, a very interesting man. Like a mountain goat on location. He’d leap about. Oh the western system of keeping the camera […]
[…] the BECTU History project the name of the interviewee is award winning costume designer Julie Harris. The name of the […]
[…] Noel Coward a nd that would be...well he cut Mickey Powell and Emeric Pressberger's film the 49 thParallel which was […]
[…] it was nominated if it didn't get - an Academy Award for sound... Mickey Hickey: That was Donat, wasn't it? […]
[…] it was nominated if it didn't get - an Academy Award for sound... Mickey Hickey: That was Donat, wasn't it? […]
[…] all-girls school in Edinburgh. She spent summers working in London for the GPO film unit, before giving up her work […]
