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[…]in Moffat: Yes of course we can come back to your work with Charles a little later when we when we talk about your adaptations of some of his musical documentaries.?Philip Donnellan: Oh absolutely.Colin Moffat: Maybe we should now now go into your first contact with film, which took place presumably[…]
[…]ield, who was a director who died a few years ago; David Thompson, who eventually became art critic on The Times, and made a series of very good arts documentaries, and a guy called Fred Senior, who I think wasn’t really very suited to the film business, or film, and I think his father was something[…]
[…] Unit who were in the same house as we were Powell. Signed theta at 21 Soho square. They had Friday night, I believe it was film shows of features or documentaries, and we met Humphrey Jennings there and all the former post office unit people. And it was a very pleasant opportunity to talk to these […]
[…]aging Director, BBC Television, Yorkshire Television. Interviewing Norman Swallow. Recorded on the 24th of March 1993. Side 1.First and foremost, where were you born?R: In Bournemouth, in 1925, long time ago.I: Schooling?R: Bour[…]
[…]ke Lindsay Anderson and Carol rice people far and away more able than me were unable to get into the unions at that time. They were surging around in documentaries where they didn't have to be union members and working through for the Film Institute and stuff like that. Not not question. Did you see[…]
[…] journal 55 Sisters of Documentary: The influence of Ruby Grierson and Marion Grierson on documentary in the 1930s In a […]
[…]ndustrial companies that wanted to make films of for promotional purposes, but really didn't know much about it. So we, we did sometimes make our own documentaries. And a lot of the time we were servicing other people's films. And it, it didn't matter what we did, because we weren't bothered by the […]
[…]ndustrial companies that wanted to make films of for promotional purposes, but really didn't know much about it. So we, we did sometimes make our own documentaries. And a lot of the time we were servicing other people's films. And it, it didn't matter what we did, because we weren't bothered by the […]
[…] my view, a part of the reason for the decline of this type of documentary which we call the prestige documentary, The Big general purpose good works documentaries, not attached to obvious commercial interests, the prestige documentaries sought to stand on non commercial ground and to give the the t[…]
