[…]e was no musical event at the Hall at all.JS: Go on, I want to find out about how people get educated musically.RA: After that, I wanted to be a film director and I think it was Gaumont British offered a course for £100 where you could be an apprentice and I put this to my father and he refused to a[…]
[…]you could record on to the wax. Now by the time I got there - yes, wax was fairly used, it was used while they were shooting, for playback, the director in those days would say ‘let me hear that’ and you’d play it back. Now at that time a lot more notice was taken of sound because this w[…]
[…]what was happening and how much money you got.Roy Fowler 31:39 What was your exact position linked to it at this stage, were you managing director, GeneralSpeaker 1 31:44 Manager, General Manager. We didn't have a managing director. I was general manager, and I was also a dir[…]
Copyright ACTT History Project, Bill Mason, film director, film producer, recorded on 4th October 1987, interviewer Alan LawsonAL: Where were you born.BM: I was born in Edgebaston, which is the snob part of Birmingham on 9th November 1915 .AL : What kind of schooling did you receive.BM: I went to on[…]
[…] to me, "There's a film being made by a German director called Wilhelm Tiele who directed some films in Germany...this […]
[…] it's technically brilliant, but then he always was. A good director, good producer. Kay Mander: Yes. When you say you […]
[…]About seven years I was working like that, and checking a lot of information which I never realised I was taking it in at the time, and worked with a director called Sanjay mackendrick, who was absolutely brilliant film called Whiskey hero. And I was clapper loader. And it was the operator's first f[…]
[…]asgow and we went there and did shows and we went down to try and meet the people and we found an awful lot, I mean I was so lucky with the different Directors on the programme, of which you were one! You were one of them! Very successful. And Geoff Rimmer was another very successful, he was a good […]
