[…] Alan LawsonTranscriber: Alexis PooleNorman Swallow: Copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Julia Cave, television director and producer. Interviewer Norman Swallow. Recorded on the 10th of May, 1996. Side 1. Side 10:32 Norman Swallow: Right. So, J[…]
Vernon Sewell (film director) 4/7/1903-21/6/2001 by admin — last modified Aug 12, 2008 02:08 PM BIOGRAPHY: Vernon Sewell began his […]
[…]s think of it being the relationship with the cinematographer and the choices they make. So I guess there was probably a very few cinematographers or directors that could actually go out and say “No, this is what I’m doing” or…BP: Yeah. You had to be someone pretty important to be able to specify. I[…]
[…]came Harry's assistant, and this was in 1934, I then was about eighteen and a half. And he was given 'Night Mail' that was his first really important directorial assignment. Now, 'Night Mail' is supposed to... well we all know a lot about 'Night Mail', but it's supposed to have been written by Basil[…]
[…]ght side of the industry. I sort of halved my salary, becoming an assistant, you know, but it was well worthwhile.What kind of an assistant?Assistant director. And that day and age, now out of interest, in that day and age of coursewe were fighting for an apprenticeship scheme in the industry becaus[…]
[…] were regular aficionados of the Ricky DeMarco gallery and and met a lot of people there, and met a character called David Gothard, who was a trainee director at the Travis Travis theater. And my mum would pick up people. We'd adopt people, basically, and bring them down to kerfield, because we had […]
[…] into trouble with time and everything, because we had a director who had an idea that he wanted to shoot […]
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[…]
[…]lkies started I did a course with RCA and I became a boom swinger to start with, you see? And then I realised, the only job in movies to have was the director, he had all the fun!Roy Fowler: Right.Vernon Sewell: So I set out to be a director and I set out to learn the business, and I becam[…]
[…] film ever to have any colour in it.LW: Richard Tauber. Yes, it's got a sequence in colour at the end and at the beginningWT: Do you remember you the director was.LW: I can't remember [Karl Grune] 4 WT: It was somebody like Ludwig Berger, not that there are many somebody's like that, but you kn[…]
