[…]l them. So we were working as well hand in glove. And Atomic Café was a massive hit. [0:24:33] I wonder if now there wouldn’t be more of an exhibition space for that type of film? Because you know now you have things like the London Documentary Film Festival? And film festivals in general […]
[…]me career for people. And what we had our own portable cinema me and two other projections I will you around the country. I was on the schoolboys art exhibition when I had to go to adult court. I was on Idol Homes Exhibition went up to Yorkshire and over to Ireland promoting the Air Force Battle of […]
[…]ed it was. Well, alright, I will divert telling you that the 3d system, which was around at that time was invented by Nigel Spottiswoode for the 1951 exhibition, and they built the telly kinema. And it was the hit of the festival of Britain I think, because it was packed every night, with a series o[…]
[…] few weeks ago. Actually they did me a favour because for two years, over two years, I travelled up and down the country and I got to know about film exhibition and distribution and did these schemes and I think this, historically, although not film production, it is quite interesting. When you did […]
[…]e to say to yourself: where is a sponsor? Who would be the sponsor? Because none of the documentary films were ever expected to make their costs from exhibition money alone. I will give you one example of a film that was very cheap to make, and that was a Spanish film. I think it was one of the firs[…]
[…] O'Farrell was our assistant and Cecil was the programme planner. He certainly conducted some, some experiments with music hall turns for the Olympia Exhibition of '36 and he did invent this "Picture Page" programme, which was the equivalent of the radio "In Town Tonight". And you had various, eithe[…]
[…] documentary films were ever expected to make their costs from exhibition money alone. I will give you one example of […]
[…];39:51 Well, that's all a bit before my time so I'm not going to be a to feel that I can tell you too much about it. Of course. The Walker gave exhibitions of films in the musical, which is a big hole in in the main street. The cinemas, the cinemas, it happened rather gradually. So you'd find […]
[…]ion of Mexican art to be taken around the country. He was showing in Washington D.C. and he had it photographed and I did a 30 minute film about this exhibition and work with him on how it is a fascinating man to work with. He was in his 70s then. He lived to about 90 something but even then he read[…]
