[…]like that, so I didn't know what to do. I had a lot of contacts through being a news editor of course, so I thought, I think I'll have a go at making documentaries if I can find some premises in London which is not exorbitant. I didn't really know what to do actually. I used to go to a little caf at[…]
[…]he speaks will be on the right channel. I'm referring to him as Johnny because there are so many Johns in this industry it gets very confusing, as he and I found when we all worked together with about another 18 Johns years ago. But John started life in broadcasting with the BBC in radio […]
[…] all the model aircraft shooting—and A Town Like Alice, and The Prince and the Showgirl with Marilyn Monroe and Lawrence Olivier. Then I went back to documentaries, where employment was more stable than in features, and I think also it was more congenial to my frame of mind. And I worked in 2-D docu[…]
[…]eature film I wrote. After The Land I was in the doghouse with Flaherty, nobody wants to know in your feature world about people who have written for documentaries, because documentaries and features don't fit and Hollywood is definitely not interested in anyone who's written documentaries, I found […]
[…]HER CHALLISSIDE 1, TAPE 1KGY: Can I ask you some details about your early life.CC: I was born on 18th March 1919 in Kensington. I had a French mother and an English father.KGY: You went to Wimbledon College,CC: King's College Wimbledon.KGY: Where were you living at that pointCC: We were living in Wi[…]
