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[…]ard to deal with when you’re not confident. But nevertheless, he was brilliant, you had to recognise, and he was fun. It was wonderful to work with a director like that. Cecil Beaton did the sets for The Winter’s Tale.[15] So every aspect of it was quite superb, really.JR: And it was a sort of ‘onwa[…]
[…]r by our commanding officer, which was Teddy Baird, and Pat Moyner[?], and they said, "The Rank Organisation are looking desperately for an assistant director and there isn't anybody available," you see, the war was still on. So he said, "What we're going to do, we're going to give you a pass that s[…]
[…]I was going to ask, what was the reaction of your parents and did they have any connection with the film business.Alan Lawson: Well my father was the director of publicity for I think at that time Universal Films and he'd been working in the film business since 1917. My mother before the family came[…]
[…]ty man. And he had four sons. I was one of them. And we were all involved in in the film industry. He the eldest one was Jerry. He was a film editor, director, producer. With good credits like Out of Africa, Gorillas in the Mist, you know, films that we know about. I came next. Also a film and found[…]
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[…]ea of change was that the production team, I mean the technicians, always were fairly skilled in their craft, but so were the production team and the directors. Particularly if you worked on programmes like Tonight and 24 Hours or Panorama, you work with some very experienced production people[…]
