BECTU History Project Interview with Philip Donnellan – documentary, writer, producerInterview Date(s): 28 & 29 June 1991Interview number: 206Interviewer: Colin MoffatSide 1Colin Moffat: The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Philip Donnellan: television doc[…]
[…]er itself, which to some extent it did. But it meant that all negotiations in terms of commercials, in terms of feature films, in terms of shorts and documentary were never done I think kind of significantly or well or properly. And because I did all the research for the pay claims and because the o[…]
[…]d have been in probably 47 or 48, that sort of thing. That was my first big assignment. And then I was assigned to looking after the labs, shorts and documentary, stills camera thing which I loathed.A Why was that?Q I just didn’t like them, they were so silly people - up here, terrible. Anyway,[…]
[…]le one year, I suppose it was ’71, maybe it had been ’72, and there was an hour’s gap and the programme that was needed, unquestionably, was a nature documentary, a documentary about…natural history documentary. And I knew the chap who could do it better than anybody else, and that was David.&[…]
[…]rmous supervision, or even longer, because so much was coming in to an editor, it was very rare he’d be doing just one programme, they may be doing a documentary, or someone may say, ‘well look, we’ve got these five shots that we need to put together for Woman’s Hour,’ or something like that a[…]
[…]nning a call from the musicians union. They're being underpaid. They're only allowed to produce 20 minutes of music, and this says, Look, I'm doing a documentary for them that channel four say they'll put on at 10 o'clock on a Saturday night. And I'm never going to be paid what it costs to do it. I […]
[…]bsp;I went across to feature films and I also took the old shot shorts and documentary branch or under my wing as well. So I had the two eye features […]
[…]one of the Heads of Departments, Julian Mounter, who I got on very well, is now Head of New Zealand Television. He was a journalist, he’d been a documentary man, journalist, and he came in, Head of Children’s and Drama, and he had a most peculiar way of going on because he called me i[…]
[…]tories of broadcasting. Yes. At Granada in about Eighty-six I think. Right. Okay. An excellent documentary maker. Are you getting that? Mm, I’ll, I’ll pick, I’ll pick that one up. Mm, okay you called yourself, well, well, t[…]
