[…]Lawson: And...a name I'd completely forgotten about. Um...tell us about Pat.David Prosser: Well Pat had been an assistant...Oh God...who was the lead documentary man in those days?Alan Lawson: Grierson?David Prosser: No, no...not Grierson]. After Grierson...Alan Lawson: Um...David Prosser: Paul Roth[…]
[…] we didn't think of that in those terms, except the documentary boys I feel, I mean the shelves unit and, […]
[…]n drinking with a friend of mine who had been at art school, who was by this time and assistant director working at Shepperton. And heknew of a small documentary company who in the summer of nine, what was his name? Michael Grey, he was he was the assistant director. And he said that they were absol[…]
[…] I think I agree with. I won’t argue with. So that brought about a major change.NS: What happened next then?MD: Well I moved into what you might call documentary.NS: Still the Music Department?MD: Yes. The Department of course had several changes of name. In 1964, it was Music and Documentaries and […]
[…]de a couple of dramatisations, one of them was a film called Bread [1934] you might have heard of - but it was basically documentaries. I worked on a documentary, this was in the late, late thirties, on tenant's conditions in East London, that was used widely in East London, showing the conditions o[…]
[…]na and Japan with the intrepid explorer cameraman giving his own commentary up on the stage without a microphone. I can remember going to see another documentary about a lion called Zimba. The first half was silent and the second half had Western Electric sound and the projectionist was sitting in t[…]
[…]end he shared his income withme. Meanwhile I was trying to get a job in films.Taylor/Peet: Denis, the first thing I remember of you was an article in Documentary Newslist byyou I think, about training films or…Denis Forman: Well you have got a better memory than I have.Taylor/Peet: Before you came i[…]
[…]ever happens a certain number of commercials are going to be made.Also very high rates of pay go to those who are working oncommercials. When I was a documentary camera man I used to think how wonderful it must be to be in features but I don’t suppose anything like that will ever happen to me. I won[…]
[…]n until - the unit started to break up round about '46...'45/'46. Anyway I was demobbed in '46, in February of 1946. And I immediately went in with a documentary film company, basically, whilst I was in the AKS and making these military films, these military instructional and documentary films, I fo[…]
