[…]the industry. In fact the excellent book on Edinburgh Cinemas and a later DVD on the same subject brought back wonderful memories and remembrances of films viewed in all of the venues mentioned … and even of a couple of cinemas that even the author of those tomes had omitted!This passion had intensi[…]
[…]nd of Fritz Lang, he showed my paintings, and he was very impressed with that. So he said to me, now I understand. I mean, you want to be involved in film making. Which department would you like to go into? I was also, at that time, instant photography, so I showed him my photographs and the paintin[…]
[…]or two years. And then fair of my second honour, mercifully, I went to art school. And that was really the beginning I think of of what brought me to film. Many questionsUnknown Speaker 3:54 as an actress,Paddy Carey 3:55 my mother was an actress and I think we joined her in […]
[…]the navy, and eventually I went to a naval college at Pangbourne with the idea of going on from there. By the way, during my first term there I saw a film that had been made by a pupil who had left the previous term called Ken Russell. So I just missed being a contemporary of his. I was a contempora[…]
[…]ghting cameraman and our producer, director, Ronald Neame. Ronald, let's start at the very beginning, you had a parentage that was very active in the film industry of its time. Ronald Neame 0:35 Yes, Roy Fowler 0:36 Elwin Neame your father and yo[…]
[…] the way, during my first term there I saw a film that had been made by a pupil who had […]
[…]m the original cassette recording.Tape 1 Side A.The copyright of this recording is vested in The BECTU History Project. Vivienne Collins, nee Knight, film librarian, film creditor, documentaries, interviewer John Legard with Alan Lawson, recorded on the 30th of January 1997. Side One.AL: We’re […]
[…]hat recruited Anne Fleming [BEHP Interview No 698] to the Imperial War Museum.She and I responded to the same advertisement. There was one job in the Film Department, which is the one that Anne got, and the second job in what was then termed the Department of Information Retrieval, but specifically […]
[…] and the last successful negotiation I ever had with a film company. From that point on itÔÇÖs been total disaster. […]
[…]ting?VG: No.RF: Not even in school plays.VG: That came later in my teens when I went into, I went on stage to start with and then I did odd things in films for Warner Brothers and BIP [British International Pictures] and I worked a lot with Lupino Lane.RF: Just to wrap up on school did you have any […]
