[…]ar and he saw Basil Wright, I went to see Basil at Soho Sq and he said tell me why you want to make films and everything else, how would you describe documentary, and I said something like the creative interpretation of reality, Basil said, you know dup negatives and lavenders, I didn't know what a […]
[…] think about that. Vicky came later, she took over the Documentary Division, as indeed did – [quietly] oh =’ve lost […]
[…] without a microphone. I can remember going to see another documentary about a lion called Zimba. The first half was […]
[…]embarrassing.MW: We’ll do a bit of revision.CJ: Yes, we might have to do that, have a think about that. Vicky came later, she took over the Documentary Division, as indeed did – [quietly] oh I’ve lost all the names. Terrible.MW: Well David Francis was one of the early ones.CJ: Da[…]
[…]hing I moved to straight away was the Saturday morning pictures. That was to me that was incredible experience. In fact I'm preparing at the moment a documentary on the Saturday morning pictures for next year's.SPEAKER: M11Centenary of UK cinema. I'm hoping to get that done because that was done tha[…]
[…]PO Film Unit. He had, of course, worked for Robert Flaherty ('Man of Aran')... and it was from the arrival of Harry Watt that the 'preciosity' of the documentary movement was turned into something a little bit more human. Because Harry was one of these lucky people who always remained the same, ebul[…]
[…]t was it like when you started off at first and has it progressed? R: I think the progression that I've seen was mainly, putting it in the Trade Union viewpoint, we had a four-man crew to operate what we now do as a one-man job in studios. We had a Sound Mixer. We had an assistant Sound Mixer. […]
[…]’s the films of the time, Alan will remember this, they we're also a bit tearful. And they were shown during the war.6:27 DMW: Yes, but today’s documentary makers only look up the dramatic bits. The happy bits are singularly undramatic: happiness does not make good news, tragedy and drama sell[…]
[…]the...?Elizabeth Furse DRAFT Tape 1 Side A13Oh sure. But.... [Coughs]To paraphrase then?We didn't, we didn't think of that in those terms, except the documentary boys I feel, I mean the shelves unit and, and they had a sort of, and the post office union with, with John Gresham [ph 18:50] they had, t[…]
