[…]ard to deal with when you’re not confident. But nevertheless, he was brilliant, you had to recognise, and he was fun. It was wonderful to work with a director like that. Cecil Beaton did the sets for The Winter’s Tale.[15] So every aspect of it was quite superb, really.JR: And it was a sort of ‘onwa[…]
[…]ly that but they were so keen on making the best use of me and me getting the best out of it that I was put on the floor as a second assistant to the director and then put into the cutting room on the same film. And so I learnt an enormous amount. The very first film I worked on as an assistant was […]
[…] that's right. And various things like that. And I suppose that must have affected me, all the articles had other film tastes as well, for data entry directors, and all those lovely things which you had, anyhow, I got, I become a member of the Cambridge University, Film Society, which sexually which[…]
[…]:06 he thought that wasAlan Legard 22:07 only Harvey, because then he went on toRichard Marden 22:09 talk to the acting director,Alan Legard 22:13 he and the news. When did you Where did you start first? And asRichard Marden 22:18 I started first[…]
[…]. Jonathan Balcon 37:57 And he had of course, we must go back a bit now let's go back to "39 Steps" at Gaumont. One of the assistant directors at "39 Steps", on "39 Steps" was Pen Tennyson, now Pen I suppose was the nearest thing I had to a brother in as much as my father, in the he[…]
Copyright is vested in the BECTU History ProjectFREDDIE FRANCIS, lighting cameraman, feature film director, interviewer Alan Lawson, recorded on 24 November 1993SIDE 1, TAPE 1Alan Lawson: When and where were you born?Freddie Francis: I was born in the wilds of North London, Barnesbury, north London […]
[…] was he often got people who as they say today, took him to the cleaners. And maybe he had a manager who er was doing that. I do know that one of the directors of the company, because I saw a book about what they called the ‘pirate buses’ of the late twenties and my father used to run a bus service […]
[…] quite a bit of contact with him. And there's another director - er, um - my mind! [chuckles] Sidney Cole: […]
[…]sue.malden@btinternet.com.Alan Lawson 0:07 The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Bob Angell documentary director, producer, company director interviewers in order Alan Lawson, Norman swallow recorded on the first of December1993. side one lock on rubber […]
