[…]urite, and Will Fyffe who had gone into films of course by that time, and Harry Gordon, the Laird of Inversnecky, there was Jack Radcliffe, I can't remember all of them. The ones I remember were Jack Radcliffe and Dave Willis because they were my favourites. And in the summertime they used to do the[…]
[…] wasn't scared as the wrong word. But it didn't. It didn't faze me. So hence doing ended up doing quite a little presentation. And I always preferred lifetime because you can't go back. Basically the I'd say the adrenaline flows differently. So consequently, if it's your life, it's got to be right. […]
[…]was watching it! I: So, '74, that was quite early days for video, wasn't it? Half-inch? Was that the open reel half inch? R: Yes. I can't remember what the make was but yes. And then we made another film at the University based on the poem 'Not Waving, but Drowning', by Stevie Smith, which[…]
[…]do with with broadcasting industry? No, but my father was interested in making cine films and he had a quarter track and half track tape machine. I remember going on holiday with his cine camera planted in the, in the windscreen and what have you. So I think I get my interest in what I do from him. […]
[…]y Fox when I was sixteen so I’ve always had that kind of connection with, mm, with the industry. I was, at sixteen, seventeen I was also an associate member of The Screen Writers Guild so I was meeting people then like Eric Ambler for example that was quite surprising that, mm... Were you[…]
[…] gentleman is working on British Government business.” So as soon as we walked into Immigration at Jan Smuts they all knew about it. Willie became an honorary white. We got into town early afternoon, and I said we must get a bus out to the big revolving television tower where you get a marvellous vi[…]
[…]ir share of broadcasts but by and large it was a theatre a week plus sometimes 2 Sunday concerts. They worked very hard in those days. One period I remember the Cine Variety, my father was doing 7 shows a day between the Dominion, Tottenham Court Rd., and the Elephant and Castle, starting at midday […]
[…]llow countrymen and women were very prominent. Did Grierson have many connections withthe union? I can’t ...A He wasn’t a member. He was made an Honorary Member, he was never a member.Q What was the reason for this?A I have no idea because he is not anti-trade union, you know, John his brother […]
[…]he union they just didn't bother to pay their dues. Some honourable people still do like David Putnam does and Dickie Attenborough does; Dickie is an honorary member and consequently doesn’t need to pay dues but he still ended up about 3000 quid a year. Yeah. I proposed him for honorary m[…]
[…]School.RF: Did you enjoy school.VG: Not a lot.RF: Did you have any special subjects you were good at or loathed.VG: Not particularly, but what I do remember doing at school, I used to sneak down very early in the morning, to the masters’ common room where there was an old typewriter and I slowly wit[…]
