[…]down on the location on "Johnny Frenchman." I mean, he's now a very considerable figure in the in the British film industry and right, he's the executive producer I would have thought rather than a hands-on producer.Jonathan Balcon 15:09 Yes, I, I, I've never sort of thought about […]
[…]n when I went to Pinewood, it was Rank. But I never saw Rank himself; he wasn’t personally involved. There were people like Earl St. John, who was an executive producer, who did have a certain amount of flair, I think. But otherwise, you dealt really with the producer and the director of whichever f[…]
[…]alf, and I did a year as a trainee at the Kodak Institution in Wiltstone near Harrow andlearned the basics of photography. And then I was taken on as assistant camera man by a tempcalled James Hodgson - Jimmy Hodgson - who was, again, an ex news camera man for “TheMarch of Time". And I worked as an […]
[…]d that was a big movie, Bridge On The River Kwai. I mean, you know, I was thinking when Freddie was talking about the the heaviness of the production executives, the old, but it goes all the way through because a production office now on a big movie, as you know, I mean, it's all increased so much t[…]
[…] a sort of ambiguous situation. He wasn't actually in the armed forces. He was still a civilian but in uniform and given an honorary rank without any executive power. I mean you'd have an honorary rank of captain but you had no executive authority. And you were in fact a civilian in uniform.Roy Fowl[…]
[…]s, that's that's so often the case, isn't it? The foot soldiers actually making, what would you say at that stage was the level of competence of rank executives? I mean, was that typical? Do you think, or was he a one off? No, no,Speaker 1 44:01 no, no, no. I think a vast majority of ran[…]
