BECTU History Project Interview No 526.Mel Faber.Feature films: advertising and distribution.Interviewed by Brian Taylor and John Legard. 30.09.2003.Transcription by Allen Eyles, September 2007.INTERVIEW WITH MEL FABER FOR BECTU HISTORY PROJECTMF: I'm a Liverpudlian as you may gather from a problem […]
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[…]1917; attended Middlesex University College, Muswell Hill; last 2 years of education at the polytechnic on Regents Street; he moved straight into the film industry from the college; photography was a hobby from an early age; SS was introduced to Jerry Blackener at Lesley Fuller studios and worked th[…]
[…]e ballet comes half way through Faust and I spent the evening on the roof looking at London burning. I think it was the night of that famous Jennings film of London burning, because I remember seeing St. Pauls back lit with fire. It was terrifying because the Wells is not far from St. Pauls.I got th[…]
[…]ion and employers trying to pass the risk on to their workers. But you've got a lot of people out there who want to get on in industries, I mean, the film and television industry be a case in point, they're keen to take any job that's going on any terms, often unpaid in some cases, and they get expl[…]
[…]icy everything else passed in English failed at maths, you know, kind of thing eventually got enough to get through and decided that I wanted to be a film director Believe it or not. And I was living living Kingston at the time and I decided to run away runaway which I did by getting over 65 b[…]
