John Turner

[…] I thought, I think I'll have a go at making documentaries if I can find some premises in London which […]

Brian Pritchard

[…]ling department and a sound recording department. Originally places like Filmatic would mainly be doing colour reversal printing because a lot of the documentaries would be shot on colour reversal, Ektachrome Commercial, and so on, and then you produced release prints on colour reversal. And Kodak p[…]

Agnes Wilkie

[…]s I worked on Ways and Means, a political programme with Colin MacKay and Gordon Brown and Russ [Russell] Galbraith and sometimes I worked on various documentaries as the lowliest, as the gofer, as the runner basically but I called myself a researcher and I was a journalist but I was never in NUJ, a[…]

Cy Young

[…]ly only I knew when I was passed around from room to cutting room to another I worked on family at war. And yeah this lots of film inserts anyway.And documentaries BG What did you think of it at the time?CY I was aware that long out there again. I thought it was going to be dead nonissues. I went ba[…]

Gerry Weinbren

[…]rested was Lucy on a story the Flaherty film. And that that was why I decided when I'd finished universe I was going to go into films to try and make documentaries not features I was much wanted them in the documentary of that time. I mean the thing that's completely disappeared today I'm mechanical[…]

David Watkin

[…]n’t Sing as a result of a poor quality test film; he then used his Paddington film as a show reel when looking for work; DW worked in commercials and documentaries; for the commercial industry DW had to train himself not to operate the camera as he had in documentaries; thanks to the advice of James[…]

Joy Batchelor

[…]- Interview No. 294 [Copyright BECTU] Transcription Date: 2004-03-18Interview Date: 1972-05 Interviewers: Jim ShieldsInterviewee: Kay Mander  Kay Mander: Joy, could we start with when and where you were born?Joy Batchelor: I was born in Watford, and at the time it was a litt[…]
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