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[…]as the reaction to it? Was it a successful feature film?Philip Leacock: It was, it got very nice reviews and they didn't have a prize at that time in Edinburgh but it was the featured production, being Scottish of course. And we had a screening up there for all the miners who'd worked at the mine wh[…]
[…] would ha ve been there at the time LK: The Edinburgh Film Guild may have perhaps some material because Cenkalski […]
[…]! I: So, from Wheel of Fortune you moved on to... R: Oh yeah, we went on to lots of other quizzes - Win, Lose or Draw, which was through in Edinburgh and the Win, Lose or Draw in Gaelic was fun because I don't speak Gaelic so I had to try and guess what they were saying all the time which,[…]
[…];R: That's right! No, you're absolutely right. I: But I remember this campaign particularly well. R: The photographer that took that was in Edinburgh. He was a very good photographer. He did it very well. A young guy. I: Oh yeah! I mean it certainly had a tremendous impact. I think th[…]
[…]a well directed film. And it wasn't a successful film. It didn't make any money. It cost astronomical. It cost and I had no control over this because Edinburgh was making these deals with Universal Pictures. It cost I think, 24 and a half million dollars, an enormous sum of money for something that […]