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[…]dall and all these films.   Made a  mint of money and were ... John P. Hamilton  33:09  There was a documentary on BBC One last year 1983 ... John Ammonds  33:12  And of course it's that that doesn't exist anymore, but that's[…]

[…]bit of photography. I learnt photography as a way of learning something about the background of the industry. Eventually. Having worked in very small documentary units I managed to get into shell. Basically because I had had this good degree. And managed to sue funnily enough through the BFI. Is thi[…]

[…] for them. Industrial films you could get trade union sponsorship. Spanish films - and the progressive film-makers were most of them enthusiastic for documentary film - they knew that they could give an authenticity, and it would commend itself to the public, so far as scenes were not staged. So the[…]

[…] Ralph Bond, and there were a lot of well-known people there, oh, Cavalcanti, Harry Watt, Arthur Coldstream, many others who became well-known in the documentary field. So I was assistant on sound. The GPO had just started using sound and we had a primitive Visatone outfit which was all fitted into […]

[…]oming back, and they had asked me to become a small part and crowd casting director, because the film artists Association, which was the crowd artist union, was getting stronger, and they had started and inaugurated various conditions of service, but captive heart. I almost remember great clarity, b[…]

[…]ere Dave MacDonald and Alec Bryce were there doing Diamond City. So I bumped into them. This is where I bumped into Dennis Mitchel who later became a documentary film producer. But in those days was making programmes on tape for the BBC. He used to disappear out into the bush with reels and reels of[…]

[…]r a studio. And I got up next morning went and had breakfast at and then went to the studio and there they were they were still shooting and the only union of any consequence of having any muscle in those days was electricians and their only power was in the fact that they had to have a meal break e[…]

[…] very well known picture at the time, sort of part documentary. And he used to run a religious, Rank's religious […]

[…] Watt, Arthur Coldstream, many others who became well-known in the documentary field. So I was assistant on sound. The GPO […]