[…]and I knew him before the film because and he used to come and see shows in Manchester and he used to come and see the ballet. And once when I was in Edinburgh, at the Edinburgh Festival, we’d done a ballet that I’d choreographed, and Gillian Lynne was in it and Paddy Stone and Irvin Davis and Beryl[…]
[…]note, you've reminded, you mentioned Denis Forman earlier, at that time I was at the BBC, Denis was still at the BFI and we did a programme about the Edinburgh Film Festival that particular year, it must have been 1954. I remember at Denis and I viewing most of the things that were shown and I do re[…]
[…]ve done, on a much vaster scale.Sidney Cole: Right.Sidney Cole: And that's their regional film theatres - you know they've got one in Bristol, one in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham. They've got about a dozen of them around the country, where they're showing fairly - we book our films int[…]
[…] job was to help to get the Area Film Commission set up in the UK. When I came on the scene I think there were three kind of film offices, Liverpool, Edinburgh and Newcastle I think were the three. And I think there are now thirty-three. (u Hum) And they of course all have to fund themselves, they’v[…]
[…]'s wife and various other people helped to get going initially. And of course, it has now expanded into a very substantial performance not unlike the Edinburgh Festival. Although it doesn't take part I think over quite so long a period. He was profoundly interested in all things to do with Sussex wh[…]
[…]d on it. I rehearsed my actors very well first. I then went up to the BFI Summer Film School in the summer of 54 in Glasgow and we finished up in the Edinburgh Festival. I met there John Huntley and Stanley Reed and I mentioned what I was doing, and they said when you've got it together show it to u[…]
[…]ny people. And she did practically no television, and I had had her as a guest with Jimmy, because they’d done, Jimmy Galway they’d done something in Edinburgh, at the Festival together and she’s come and done some Ravel with him on one of his shows. And I said, I was talking to her and she said how[…]
[…]ways used to try and make sure that there was in the Eurovision Song Competition about half way through, something to make people laugh.I once, up in Edinburgh, when we did it in Edinburgh, it was all going far too well and I was actually producing it myself, or not producing, I was overseeing it, w[…]
