[…]ally rather pointless to try and do oral history at 6,000 miles. Mm, in the documentation if you go through it you’ll find I was very active with The Directors’ Guild, mm, and what they were doing. They have a superb oral history enterprise and so we learned from them and we tried to help them whene[…]
[…]uriouslyInterviewer (unidentified): But they then asked you to come and work for them? How did that happen?Jill Craigie: Mr Bentley - was an old film director, and he thought I had a visual sense, and so then I did a whole lot of scripts and I enjoyed that. One of the scripts was about the glass ind[…]
[…] by accident, I fell into the film industry. I had been drinking with a friend of mine who had been at art school, who was by this time and assistant director working at Shepperton. And heknew of a small documentary company who in the summer of nine, what was his name? Michael Grey, he was he was th[…]
[…]on our own feet as it were. Religious Films handed over the technical stuff to GHW in 1947 I think. GHW stood for Gregory, Hake and Walker, the three director founders. It was a Methodist organised thing - I think the Methodists were often behind it - to do the technical side of the making of religi[…]
[…]ey were well crafted, again looking back on them, they were crafted films, and written by some good writers of that period I've found out since, good directors. Norman Swallow: We can see them on television all the time now. Johnny Speight: That's right. They're very good films. And that's my cultur[…]
