[…]ad cost too much money and were the only two flops that he had made. And he gave him the money to do "Sound Barrier" although he said 'I cannot see a documentary about test pilots but I believe in your talent'. So Zollie said to Lew Thornburn 'I want Valerie and Teddy to be on "Sound Barrier" and wh[…]
Alan Lawson 0:00 the copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Pieter de Normanville, documentary film director, interviewer, is John Taylor, recorded on the 28th of February 1991. With interjections from his wife, Sarah Erulkar side one.John Taylor 1:11 &n[…]
[…]priorities but at least the logic and then narrow logic. And. You do. What we were making movies is a reasonable standard a. Decent old fashioned way documentary Standard. Within a year after leaving accounting for a third of the budget and for. Half of the Michigan.SPEAKER: F9Of the same film. And […]
[…]rector come into your calculation? Did you talk to the director on the budgets at all?Charles Wilder: No, no. Well...Margaret Thomson: Because in the documentary films the director always talked to the accountants.Charles Wilder: The associate producer may well have done, but I worked with the assoc[…]
[…]e agencies obviously have a flair for advertising films, which we British Transport films, perhaps didn't happen. Bang. We were rather serious travel documentary, instructional filmmakers and some of the imaginative stuff, frankly, probably was a little beyond us, but it didn't stop us still critici[…]
[…] programmes on tv, almost documentaries, you're not sure if they're documentaries or not. And that was really like Mr Baxter, his style was a sort of documentary thing about it. Of course John Grierson was attached to Group 3 when we got as far as Group 3.BA: Great leanings [HANDWRITTEN CORRECTION] […]
[…]n. What did you do at Welling? Can you remember what pictures you were on.RP: Only this John Argyle film, A Door With Seven Locks, then we did a documentary which I think Walter Mycroft was the producer on. [Mein Kampf, My Crimes]SC: He was in charge of production.RP: He was at ABC, but I think[…]
