[…]ds like I: The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Sir Paul Fox. One time Managing Director, BBC Television, Yorkshire Television. Interviewing Norman Swallow. Recorded on the 24th of March 1993. Side 1.First and fo[…]
[…]arts. You see, you didn't have a sort of rough, ready boys. You know, one has especially from America. I hate to say this in comparison the Hollywood directors I've worked in my lifetime, very few had what I call a cultural background. Forgive me mention about culture I admire and respect this very […]
[…] sound? You werenÔÇÖt at this time thinking of being a director? RW B: Not till I saw what was happening. […]
[…]n P will put me right.JPH: Your parents were living in Wandsworth.DS: Oh yes, yes. Because my father was Charles Shadwell, a musician, a musical director. He was MD Musical Director at the Putney Hippodrome at that time, so that’s why I was born in that area. But shortly after that, I thin[…]
[…]you know, I had begun to, to formulate more what I wanted to do, and editing seemed to be the most interesting job. And at that time I wanted to be a director, and I reckoned that I, you know, I was going to be God’s gift to directors, that, you know how you are when you’re young. But I was very con[…]
[…] it, but anyway, that's what got me going, because I I kept taking things to Vogue, but Patrick Matthews suggestions, John Parsons, who was their art director, and he never liked me or the pictures, but he kept saying, Okay, you're doing very well. Come back and so on. But I mean, you can't feed the[…]
[…]ong enough. I mean, I remember once we had a lot of North hardware, the exteriors were night. And I remember one winter's night there and I think the director was waterfall. I was working on a picture there and we just went on and on and on. No probation, no meals, no breaks until I it was about how[…]
[…]oton directed by a chap named Jerry vice. Yeah. Who. Strange enough. These has come full circle. Was the man at the Czech film school who trained the director I'm working with a moment of impasse. It's a small world anyway. I naturally was very intrigued by all this and redoubled my efforts to get i[…]
Copyright is vested in the BECTU History Project19th December 1990, Maurice Carter, art director, interviewed by Roy FowlerSIDE ONE, TAPE ONERoy Fowler: When and where were you bornMaurice Carter: I was born in the London, in 1913, and I had the normal sort ofschooling, Gladstone, and I eventually w[…]
[…]sque 16 new burlesque age 16 and we set off and we made with friends we made a little film in which I actually although I was so I wasn't really t he director of this film I was the actor. I was seen as an escaped Borstal Boy running across the fence being chased by a lot of policemen on my way towa[…]
