[…] to see the Encyclopaedia Britannica and found this amazing sort of amateurish cock-up going on [laughter] and there was a very, very shrewd managing director, who said, ‘Yes, I think you’re just the person we want’ and within about twenty-four hours I was installed in an office and told to write qu[…]
[…]d Morgan Grenfell in fact sold their 90 percent. I kept my 10 percent. And they sold their 90 percent to Hemdale and therefore I then became Managing Director of Hemdale Film Distributors. And a series of very good British films again, 'Triple Echo' and 'The Amazing Mr Blunden', all of which I distr[…]
[…]ick's Day, stage six caught fire, and the roof fell in. And when they rebuild it, they divided it. They realized the stages were too big, and the art directors were expanding and expanding, and they divided it, and it became six and seven. So you had four, five and six and seven were big stages, and[…]
[…]ed.The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT history project. Sara de Normanville, professionally known as Sara Erulkar, documentary film director. Interviewer John Taylor. Recorded on the twenty-eighth of February 1991, with interjections by her husband, Peter (PdN). Side one.[00:34]Who[…]
[…]The copyright of this recording is vested in the actt history project.Charlotte Jennings, artist, daughter of Humphrey Jennings, the documentary film director, poet, and artist,recorded on the 17th of December 1990. side one interview, Alan Lawson Well was was not, you know, when, when and where wer[…]
[…] 1' and they would know which order it was coming up, so they could preview it. Because you were wanting to take it as soon as it was up, because the director wanted that particular picture up. But the directors then of course knew nothing about the technical side. People like George More O'Ferrall,[…]
[…]on, right, over this and it was rejected. Paddy Leach basically did a job on us, because he'd obviously had a chat with Roger Chase, who was then the director of HR. [Human Resources] So it was rejected. Now, Tony Lennon was around at this stage. He was on a release at the BBC and Television Centre,[…]