Christopher Miles

[…]considerably.Rodney Giesler  18:47  Did you have the crew for foreign forms?Christopher Miles  18:49  Yes. Yes. Well, it wasn't a documentary there. It was it was a theatrical short. And I think that's very onerous on a young person starting out, you know, which doesn't happen to[…]

Joe Mendoza

[…] that you know, because it meant brought it to life tremendously by you know, get out of college because David MacDonald didn't know how to shoot the documentary didn't know i mean he was a nice guy David windows I mean all that stuff you but I mean, if you've been trained in the feature studio you […]

Ronald Neame

[…]being one of the old gentleman and Ronnie scribing, the other one Ronald squab. And we brought in a young woman at that time woman who had made a few documentary films, but it never will. I've done a feature so far as I know, but was a bright girl, and who I think I met through the early meetings of[…]

Maurice Elvey

[…]sted. So I made what was to become... I made the first of what was to become the typically English movie: the picture with actors, but founded upon a documentary story, with a real background. So I went and made that, and it was quite a big success.Ralph Bond : You made it on the location I believe?[…]

Christopher Challis

[…] of things but it was a successful picture and so it got a good write up for the photography.KGY: Photographically it's not remarkable.CC: No, it's a documentary in weather which was totally out of continuity, nothing matches. But we had fun doing it and it was a marvellous script.KGY: Of all the di[…]

HP0572 Laura Mulvey – transcript

[…] extreme of artists’ films, artisanal film, right the way through documentary, workshops, Lucia Films, and right the way through to […]

Johnny Goodman

[…] the camera department G-B Instructional working with Lewis Gilbert on documentary shorts such as Sailors Do Care (1944). When he […]

Maurice Elvey – Transcript

[…] English movie: the picture with actors, but founded upon a documentary story, with a real background. So I went and […]

Laura Mulvey

[…]that included people from the London Film Makers Co-op, what you might call the most extreme of artists’ films, artisanal film, right the way through documentary, workshops, Lucia Films, and right the way through to people who are beginning to work on these new experimental type fictions which weren[…]

Mary Harvey (Welford)

[…]so sort of dedicated, full of ideas, you know. Probably terribly impatient and, with, when things didn't go their way. And I remember we had a lot of union trouble, but only about things like wanting an extra half hour or something and there'd be a terrific amount of, well sort of petty, I mean at t[…]
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