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[…] in continuity, Because he was a very, sort of, careful director himself. Tilly Day: And, you know, I suddenly thought […]

[…] the film business. Alan Lawson: Well my father was the director of publicity for I think a t that time […]

[…] Mac in the family – he was never an uncle but in those days you called everybody uncle. He turned out to be David MacDonald who was a reputable film director in those days. I went down to Lime Grove studios with my dad and sat on the set. In his chair. And started work next Monday. In the scenic ar[…]

[…]at you weren't going to be a performer? Ernest Maxin  4:47   I knew I would have to be a performer. First, to be a good director, and producer. It's rather like you can't be a doctor unless you've been a medical student first. Or you can't be a lawyer. Unless, professio[…]

[…];had installed somebody whom he thought was a jollygood ......... as Supervising Art Director, Clarence Elder, so I wentto see Elder and recovered my Glasgow accent at once and sai[…]

[…]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[…]

[…]lkies started I did a course with RCA and I became a boom swinger to start with, you see? And then I realised, the only job in movies to have was the director, he had all the fun!Roy Fowler: Right.Vernon Sewell: So I set out to be a director and I set out to learn the business, and I becam[…]

[…]omeone, and it was just a local, father of one of my friends happened to know Leslie Parkin, who at that time was with PFF, one of the joint managing directors, and arranged for me to go and see him.PFF?Production Facilities Films, which was the holding company for the Rank Organisation. I mean all […]

[…] Anyway, there was a sort of group of… one casting director at each major studio and they worked principally through […]

[…]pstairs” We used to have policeman who say “Hello, hello, what’s going orn he-ar” [Laughs] I thought “cor blimey”. Happily, there were enough liberal directors about who said “the cockney kid’s the real Mccoy” you know.McG: Tell me about your parents. Why were you brought up by your granny?HF: Becau[…]