[…] teachers for conductingAlexander Faris: Richard Austin was the conducting teacher to whom I owe quite a lot I must say. And Sir George Dyson was the director, and Herbert Howells was the great Composition teacher of those days. But I eventually went to the director and said I don't think I'm doing […]
[…]OJECTEDWARD CARRICKINTERVIEWED BY SID COLE WITH ALAN LAWSON.The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project Edward Carrick, Art Director/Designer, recorded on 30th January 1991.Interviewer, Sid Cole.SC: Teddy, it's lovely to see you after all these years. In these interviews we[…]
[…] the film business. Alan Lawson: Well my father was the director of publicity for I think a t that time […]
[…]. Jonathan Balcon 37:57 And he had of course, we must go back a bit now let's go back to "39 Steps" at Gaumont. One of the assistant directors at "39 Steps", on "39 Steps" was Pen Tennyson, now Pen I suppose was the nearest thing I had to a brother in as much as my father, in the he[…]
[…]ams. And who else was at the last reunion, how many people Yvonne Littlewood who was a contemporary of mine, and some of the very early producers and directors, I'd venture to suggest that possibly, I'm one of the very few who is still working. Joyce Robinson 17:09 I[…]
[…]day of working that don't have to lick the film. scrape it off with a piece of hacksaw blade. And I in years after I remember, was working with other directors. One in particular who was a well known documentary director, who used to lick it first off you both know who he was, what you would d[…]
[…] was incredible because it was being directed by a young director called um - who directed the Bond films, um...? […]
[…]a lot so everything you'd rehearsed had to be kind of thrown out of the window! But we all coped and it was fine. But the best joy I had at STV was a Director called Dougie Moodie. Douglas Moodie. He came from BBC to STV and it was Ibsen's The Wild Duck, the play. I'd seen it at the Festival and Dou[…]
[…]cause men, everybody has to start at the bottom of learning, learn some trade and work their way up, rather than just arriving according themselves a director or something. And it also meant that people weren't exploited. Because everybody has been a union, the shop steward would check that they wer[…]
[…]heatre and directing. And when I got to Cambridge, which was a year later, I joined the Cambridge University's Mummers and the ADC and my career as a director took off. My first significant production for the Mummers was Ondine by Jean Giraudoux and it was a huge hit. I'll never forget th[…]
