[…]d the cameras looking and … Before he did a feature he’d make sure that we were, you know, we were shooting the street, the street map of Belfast, or Edinburgh, or whatever, so that he’d look at it and say, he would then focus on what was done on the last shoot and he could say “Well I can see a foc[…]
[…]oy for a long time was to have Scotland split vertically so that you would have a west coast and you'd have an east coast. The east coast giving them Edinburgh and Dundee. Dundee was actually ours, it wasn't that people would have thought it should be, it might have been Grampian's but, anyway, it w[…]
[…]at was lucky to have TV there. And I happened to work on the fortieth anniversary of the Ralph Reader Gang Show which had the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and Lord Mountbatten there whilst it was being televised for later transmission. That was the highlight.Interviewer: And that was the p[…]
[…]s a kind of excitement in that, and then gradually I think I began to catch up with the significance of the avant-garde and I date that rather to the Edinburgh Film Festival in 1972, when Linda Myles, and Claire Johnston and I, organised an event, kind of historical screenings of films made by[…]
[…], the differences being that it was more than an artistic event, as well as music, combined with it. And the event was a more sort of, like a musical festival Music Festival combined with sport, which we don't have an equivalent today, as is really apps totally, totally confined in one area or the o[…]
