[…] Lyric, Piccadilly and The Adelphi. I really enjoyed doing that, it was marvellous. I love doing things that, necessitate research as sort of musical documentaries.Was this, were these your ideas or...?Yes, well yes, I mean I think...I mean they weren’t given to you by your bosses?No, no.86Yvonne Li[…]
[…]ng to happen to it, is that many kinds of programmes, and I'm particularly concerned John because the kind of programmes I make which as you know are documentaries, social documentaries if you like, might well get the chop, because they don't get the biggest audiences and don't make the biggest prof[…]
[…] a scout around and all the runners in seniority terms were not acceptable, because Huw was only then the head of a department, a small department of documentaries, he wasn't a group head. And to be controller of programmes for 2 channels was coming it a bit. But by general consent he emerged, if yo[…]
[…]s, that's right, he played through his pianist played the score through of England.Speaker 2 35:20 And see famous the reduction of social documentaries housing problems and enough to eat in the 30s, as well as a young team of filmmakers formed by Grierson, files of the British documentar[…]
[…], that series even.Alan Lawson: No...David Prosser: And a lot of... intermediately, with a lot of, um, 'Horizon', the occasional 'Panorama' and other documentaries...quite a bit of microscopy and stuff like that.Alan Lawson: Yes...um, on the, um...on those...on the 'Panorama' stories, um...what was […]
[…] love doing things that, necessitate research as sort of musical documentaries. Was this, were these your ideas or…? Yes, well […]
[…] the period, the point is made that Kino just did documentaries. Well I think I would say basically we did […]
[…] in Watford, Joy Batchelor worked as a freelance graphic artist and designer on various newspapers and magazines before meeting John […]
[…]time in your career, during the war or during your documentary times - which were your earliest days in the film industry, and later you went back to documentaries - were your languages, the fact that you could speak, I assume, fluent German, were they ever of any help to you?Erica Masters: Oh absol[…]
