[…]h the artist act. The camera is supposed to portray that. All right, there are spectacular shots in war films that the camera does quite well. But in drama you're there to portray the actors in the best possible light. So, if you start doing camera moves then everyone goes “coo, bloody ‘ell, what’s […]
[…]Marvellous. Oh it was a big success. It was the first of the slightly realistic type films.I: Which is why I say it was a change from the costume melodrama type films.JK: Gangs, and these kinds of things. Excellent performance from Herbert Lom. I didn’t realise how young he was then, he must have on[…]
[…]music. We commissioned a whole strand of new operas, for instance, short new operas at one point. A lot of orthodox opera, some remade for television drama, some particularly interesting I think, although at the time many people thought them mystifying, documentaries about aesthetics and cultural ex[…]
[…]ler: Indeed.E.M. Smedley-Aston: Which is unusual. And of course John Bryan had everything absolutely right. You didn't have all these awful dramas where "Send for the Art Director and get that changed" and so on. It was a very efficient unit. And I think that was why. I think if you look b[…]
[…]on film; CFS did hundreds of episodes of Coronation Street for Canada; 470 episodes of Rainbow went all over the world; Saturday afternoon wrestling; drama was still shot on film so it was only videotaped programmes; as standards conversion for TV came in the business dropped off; industrial films s[…]
[…]only does what the director tells him to do. They have no idea what an edge does because they never see it it does work which is very tragic and very dramatic. And there was many times that I would like to say to people when the director has been banished from the scene as he can. As he is in televi[…]
[…]o say I go once a year to a summer school, which is the Arts of the WEA over there, and I take a course, whatever course is of interest to me, either drama or this and that and the other. And then we have a performance evening and I dance, which they say gets better and better. But I will tell you o[…]
