[…]ying. But it went down all right, and that was fine Rodney Giesler 24:57Tell me how you actually went around. This is your first film as a director. How did you go about making it? I mean, did Ram Gopal put on a performance for you? And then you worked out in film terms, how you were goin[…]
[…]hing of writing just ahead of the camera. The assistant director would come up and say, "got any pages for Mr. Elvey down there" - Maurice Elvey, the director. Anyway, one day Claude Rains came up to my office, and he said "Charles, have you noticed this girl Jane Baxter who's playing the second par[…]
[…]see. Which is, I suppose, really what a great conductor is in an orchestra, you know... people play for a great conductor and people relax for a good director. And, er... I don't think anybody had it in the GPO Film Unit to that extent, because they were - charming, sweet people, don't get me wrong,[…]
[…]nbsp;0:06 The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project.Unknown Speaker 0:13 John Sherman, documentary film producer, filmmaker, interviewer, Alan Lawson, on the 26thUnknown Speaker 0:23 of October,Unknown Speaker 0:26 side one.Unknow[…]
[…]ked with Jack Raymond –mainly comedies; FY talks about some other of his colleagues; working with Herbert Wilcox, a terrific promoter but not a great director. 00:29:40 – 00:30:10FY: I think the best, one of the best films, I think was Victoria the Great. I’ve seen that … it’s been reprin[…]
[…] she was asked for the producer and she gave the director. She said Harry Watt instead of Grierson. And of course […]
[…] set first thing in the morning. And he would be there, right the way through to the end. knew his lines. Absolutely fantastic. Basil Dearden was the director. And we were shooting most of it in a village called Men's Gooner, I think it was called here was terrible. I mean, that was that place was b[…]
[…]:04:17.2 JOY: Well, Brian Johnson was working with Derek Meddings doing the models and that's always been his thing and Derek was the Special Effects Director. I hear he's got a very good reputation in the industry. So has Brian but Brian was a youngster then. And you never really had much time to g[…]
