[…] the story could come first I think you’ll find that the inspiration for good photography comes from within the writing. And it’s surprising how many directors you work for who haven’t the faintest idea really how to photograph a film but if you’re inspired by the writing and the ideas in the story,[…]
[…]ey liked the idea that I was at Unity Theatre ‘cos they were quite left wing themselves and it was a co-operative and they took me on as an assistant director! TD: Do you remember which year this was? AY: No, I can’t remember years at all. TD: 30’s or AY: […]
Joan Kemp-Welch (actress, stage director, television director) 23/9/1906-07 - 5/7/99 by admin — last modified Aug 10, 2008 10:23 PM […]
[…]ly unqualified. However, I did get an interview. I don't know quite how- I didn't get the job - but Franklin invited me, Noble Frankland, who was the director at the time wrote me a letter afterwards because everything went through the Civil Service Commission at the time so my letter of rejection c[…]
[…]le class lady to...?Joan Kemp-Welch: Yes I think there was, I think there was. There was certainly a stigma and there was no such thing as women directors or anything like that.Roy Fowler: Right.Joan Kemp-Welch: Not at that age. Although, later, in the period where I'm saying I worked[…]
[…]people available to do it. Sound recording was Harold King and he went on to great things.BA: He became head of Sound at ABPC Studios.BE: And the art director was Holmes Paul. He was an older sort of art director, very very nice man. One of the few then who then had a beard and so he was rather dist[…]
L.P. Williams (art director) 10/8/1905 - 8/10/1996 by admin — last modified Jul 27, 2008 02:46 PM BIOGRAPHY: After an […]
[…]en I'll feel better. And I'm very like that, but as I say I'm very basic, all my life at the BBC I never took it seriously. I mean to become managing director of BBC Television was beyond my wildest expectations. And when I got I used to stand there and I used to look at the building and I used to s[…]
[…]using short ends when in fact you you weren't it always seemed like that to them because it was the days of when you took many many takes to get this director's perfection and when we finished the loading slammed the sides of the camera back and everything else. I took off the to unload finished tak[…]
