[…] 4:28 That happened through my father, either had, I think, Paul Rotha had approached him because he was an economic historian, had approached him when researching some film. I set out to be a painter, decided it was war - I had to do something rather than more usefu[…]
[…]k at that time it was obviously known that Thames Television was making World at War and we knew it was going to be a fantastic series.... I am not a historian, as I said, I was a linguist, but I was working on these history programmes, finding people. I worked on the Scharnhorst one. At that […]
[…] Lassally, Basic Films produced Government information films.[xxxiv]Research required[xxxv]Basil Wright (1907-1987) was a documentary filmmaker, film historian, film critic and teacher.[xxxvi]Lindsay Anderson was born in 1923 in India. He started as a film critic and then became a film director. He […]
[…] year or two later.You may well be right. Jill Balcon 24:52 You're much more likely to be right as a historian. Roy Fowler 24:55 We'll leave that to Philip Kemp. Jill Balcon 24:57 […]
[…]having ideas, and I didn't quite know. I didn't have any guidance. What it must be to be in a family like the Longfords, where you're brought up with historians who are talking about it. You need - you've no idea how much guidance people need, or I did anyway. Perhaps I wasn't brainy enough to think[…]
[…]ut of Paris to cinema. I mean, they were critics first.Christopher Miles 25:27 Yes, they were. Yes.Rodney Giesler 25:28 Historians first and then filmmakers. Second, or a very big second, but consciously influenced. I mean, Truffaut see premium for this Hitchcock […]
[…]bsp;with Huw Weldon. No, initially, we were looking for a front man and then Huw Weldon did take it on. But there was a question of who should be the historian.And I, we had a discussion with John Julius Norwich. And he was too busy and eventually Jack Plumb? took it on.Alan Lawson 23:27 […]
[…]rafted films. They had a very good team of people and they did work that undeniably it wasn't always as I said it wasn't always as cosy or as rosy as historians have made out. And it's very rare to read people knocking Ealing and I'm not particularly knocking it I'm simply saying that it was hierarc[…]
[…]mative about something. He said, we never thought, in a way we've not thought about history. If you see what's happening, not accepted, perhaps. Yes. Historians occasionally think that making that kind of way, butUnknown Speaker 38:29 I'll never forget the Dawkins definition of slow moti[…]
