[…]eries, who was actually directing it or producing it? TD: The principal Producer was man called Richard Broad, who was one of the very great ITV documentary directors of the time, [who] now lives in the West of Ireland; if you want to interview him you have to travel over to Ireland because he […]
[…] in finding out about them and being opinionated.A couple things that I have to be written about which is interesting, Sequence was not interested in documentary, and this was probably the result of influence to some degree, but it wasn't interested in the documentary primarily I suppose because the[…]
[…] written about which is interesting, Sequence was not interested in documentary, and this was probably the result of influence to […]
[…]r this kind gentleman was in fact Jack Lee all right. Yes. Who was directing a film called close quarters.SPEAKER: M5And that was that famous wartime documentary that he directed about the submarines. That's done. That's right. You just chose a good day to go visit didn't you.SPEAKER: M2So then John[…]
[…]ou know, try and carve out any, it’s virtually impossible. And even Atomic Café, ‘cause we, erm, The Raffertys, with Jane Loader who made a brilliant documentary called The Atomic Café which was, er, a look at propaganda, pro-bomb propaganda, films made about nuclear war, er wonderful film, er, that[…]
[…]s.” I looked at him and it seemed to be, why didn’t I think of that, and I said: “How do you get in?”, and he said: “Well I’ll give you a list of the documentary film companies and go round and ask them.” So being young and energetic and optimistic, I took this list and I walked in, after havin[…]
[…]bsp;0:08 The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project. The subject is Michael Clark, producer, director and editor of documentary films interviewed by john legard. The date is 22, October 1993. This is side one. And the file number is 299.John Legard 0:37 […]
[…]did get through an awful lot of work.Kitty Wood : Hmm.Jim Connock : Am I right in thinking at that period that probably G-B I were one of the leading documentary firms, or was it just because they were the only ones that I knew shall we say?Kitty Wood : Yes. They were quite a well known firm. Bruce-[…]
