[…], all led by Harold, and it was busy but not highly staffed. In London there was the Acquisitions, myself in charge of feature films, and someone for documentaries someone for television, and I was sort of in charge of them, vaguely.3MW: Remind us who those were.CJ: Yes, I’m trying to reme[…]
[…]re next door to us, and I knew all the editors there.
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And I had spent quite a lot of time up in their cutting rooms, where they were making documentaries, watching them cutting and, talking to them and that sort of thing. And I rushed up there, and I said, ‘I want to learn how to order opt[…]
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[…] worked they got me to do an enormous amount of documentaries and other things for the BBC. I think I […]
[…]s moment when I was at Bristol. And suddenly the penny dropped and I can still remember that Road to Damascus moment was ‘television historical documentaries.’ Of course! That’s it! That combines my interest in history, my interest in film and television, and so when we left Bristol, left univ[…]
[…] and after I think the last Free Cinema show Derek resented the kind of publicity we had got as Free Cinema, and he organised a series of showings of documentaries made by Associated Rediffusion, I think, I can’t remember now, and they'd called the it Captive Cinema. And it was the most amazing thin[…]
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[…] things which have now become commonplace. One of the early documentaries used the technique of the deliberate straight face to […]
