[…]Action; larger than life, willing to standup to authority.JBOh yes, I mean it was fascinating World in Action which was I think the first journalisticdocumentary series wasn't it. They'd been quite soft up till then really; there'd been a lot of‘look at life’ style documentaries and the idea of havi[…]
[…]m that I could find as an alternative to fashion art,which was my then passion. And I didn’t know anything about films at all, but I sort offelt that documentary films seemed to offer me something that interested me. But I didn’tknow anybody in films and I had nobody who had any connections with any[…]
[…]h Transport because it was such a lovely unit and I was so happythere and the films were so good I stayed there off and on till ‘82 when Icut my last documentary and I cut my last film. For one thing I don'twant to go back to features, the stress and strain, and British Transportfilms are so cut bac[…]
[…] Raffertys , with Jane Lo ader who made a brilliant documentary called The Atomic Café which was, er, a look […]
[…] but I was working for them. I was making a documentary called British Habits and Customs, you know wedding customs […]
[…]to converse with him there. You speak the language of course.[Laughter]PB-C: Oh yes, great! DB: Coming onto the supposedly first fly on the wall documentary series, The Family, can you tell us how that was set up? And how you came on to it. The interesting people involved. PB-C: I think Pa[…]
[…]ed Korda’s Centenary with a screening of I don't think you were part of it then were you? I got a print of one of my favourite movies is a documentary called The Epic That Never Was about the making or the non-making of I Claudius which is fascinating. Have you ever seen that you? &n[…]
[…]e end! Another time I had a sort of madman, a mad director came over from Berlin, he was from West Berlin, but I was working for them. I was making a documentary called British Habits and Customs, you know wedding customs and queuing at bus stops and Chelsea Pensioners. But when he came over, the fi[…]
[…]o The Elephant Will Never Forget. He'd say, "I just thought you'd like to know that a copy of it's being held in Moscow as a prime example of British documentary - I thought you'd like to know that," you know, and all this was going on. And um - he um - I never worked there again. We came across eac[…]
[…]at led to an interest in film and shooting little 16mm films. And then my elder sister married a man called Harold Lowenstein, who's still working in documentary I think. And although the marriage didn't work, my relationship with Harold has always been a very happy one. And he was a wonderful perso[…]
