EXTRACT: On losing the job of a lifetime:-
"I said a permanent job in films or television would be like winning the pools - any kind of a job, I’d be grateful. I suddenly got a phone call one day to see this guy called Ward Thomas, so I go traipsing […]
[…]sonInterviewee: Erica MastersTape 1, Side 1Sydney Samuelson: Well we're sitting here on the 2nd August 1995. We're in the meeting room of the British Film Commission, at 70, Baker Street in London, and the interviewee is no less than Miss Erica Masters, a legendary production person in our industry,[…]
Interview with Marion GriersonInterviewer: Margaret Thompson MT: This is Margaret Thompson interviewing Marion Grierson; documentary film director, editor reporter, literary editor and writer.these were the professions that she followed in the early years of documentary filmmaking. She later we[…]
[…] credit on Scott of the Antarctic (1948). Montagu’s career in film production ran parallel to his work as and film […]
[…]typing. But my mother always used to say to me ‘Well what are you going to do with your life, what are you going to be’? And I said ‘I'm going in the film business’.Ah, that's what I was going to ask you, what, what prompted you to do that?Well I always loved the theatre, I suppose like every young […]
Dicky Leeman (television and film director) b.1912 by admin — last modified Aug 15, 2008 01:39 PM BIOGRAPHY: Born in […]
[…] to be, trying different things, seeing what it was like being a journalist and so on. Then I suddenly thought, to hell with it all I'm interested in films.SC: When did it start this interest in films. Did you go to movies much while you were young.CC: Yes, quite a lot. AndSC: Do you remember the ea[…]
[…]ey Street of course, was very famous wasn’t it?That’s right, that’s right, yes, yes.Yes. And in fact the other day on television we had the Hitchcock film for the first time.Oh really.That he sort of re, reconstructed the Sidney Street siege for the last ten minutes.Ah, ha, yes.With Peter Lorre and […]
