[…]rings and so, I did all that, back to the Presenter again, a couple more captions. Now, the twenty-five, twenty-six minutes went in like that and the Director at the time had only just come out of training himself and he wasn't told that I was doing this camera, he just thought that Jimmy was operat[…]
[…]mentary idea. The idea sprang from the first Soviet documentaries that they saw, and the method used openly - and defended by a number of Soviet film directors - of what was called 'non-acting material', real people in particular roles that carried great conviction. And the second, the thing that su[…]
[…]here must have been somebackground to make it worthwhile. So I didn’t know much about it. Well, a few years ago, I was thumbing through the telephone directory and I came across one Span. So I thought - it was a Maidavale number - so I rang up and a woman answered the phone and I said ‘are you […]
[…]ilm printer and my first job was to print the rushes for Ernie Palmer, the American cameraman -they were nearly all Americans, there were two Americandirectors, American cameraman, Continental cameraman, all that sort of thing - and I had to print the rushes. And one of the first jobs I did was to p[…]
[…] afterwards they'd taken it away. Well, in those days the director cut his picture. He always had a negative cutter […]
[…] the end of film party, Jocelyn Rickards was there and I’d heard about Jocelyn and I thought she sounded wonderful, and I had for a bit worked as Art Director on Morgan as my husband’s father died in America and he went off for a month. Nobody seemed to even notice me so I just carried on! I’d spott[…]
[…]aste of the film business.What, what, what actually were you doing?I was their secretary.I see.[05:00]So I went there and I became the producer’s and director’s secretary, very important. Iknew absolutely nothing at all about films but I, I loved films of course. And then from there, everyone there […]
[…]he facilities we needed, they werevery, very good to us and, again, this was hard work because there was just Jimmy Hodgson whowas the camera man and director, myself operating the camera and the sound man, you may ormay not have heard of him, called Pat Fox or Dennis Scanlon was there. Dennis Scanl[…]
[…] Carstairs who was a bit of a joke as a director. Occasionally because we were we were under contract had […]
