[…] was quite literally roping in the dark. You know,Speaker 1 37:47 the thing that I want to ask you, did you ever have a chance to work on independent frame, or any of these?Speaker 3 37:58 You know this? No, knew what about it at the time. I'm just trying to think. I was tryi[…]
[…][laughs] What, what do you mean, how did I...?Well, in the sense of, I mean you, you were on contract to Granada presumably, but you were also making independent films at the same time.Well, I wasn’t on contract to them.BECTU History ProjectInterviewee Interviewers Track NoDiane TammesNicky Nor[…]
[…] rid of you.JPH: Very very staff, very very staff organisations. You could leave and go to the BBC, but there was very little interchange between the independent companies.Did people get fired?DS: Not too much. Occasionally.What sort of cause?DS: It had to be quite bad. It had to be drinking caught […]
[…]xt time we see David Eadie I'll ask him. Shot in Lesotho - what part of Africa is this?Teddy Darvas: Lesotho is within South Africa but it is an independent kingdom with a king. Mazuro is the capital. And we cut it together and the interesting thing was that, when it was blown up to 35, mm how […]
[…] could supply either, because everybody said there’s three or four independent filmmakers, otherwise t hey’re just freelancers. And we hadn’t realised […]
[…]one down and Helen Gunnis had introduced me to Sidney Box and Muriel Box, and I went out to their house out in Mill Hill and they had a film company, Independent London Films, which was Bill McQuitty, Sidney Box, Muriel Box and they gave me a contract as an actor, so we thought well there's money co[…]
[…]e'll call it a day." [laughter] But I think the most painful thing was having scripts messed up and having to shoot them. I mean Sol Lesser who is an independent producer was very anxious to be creative and to be an intellectual. And he used to read the final script and then re-dictate it and just s[…]
[…]ll, who is that for?” and I said “Thames Jeremy.” Having been Controller of Programmes at Thames and the guru behind The World at War, had left to go independent, and he was working with the BBC and Robert Kee.There were two rival series, and I remember when we used to go in and out of Belfast, I wa[…]
[…]e of the toolroom and maintenance. Complications in cameras. “Problems were overcome through experience”. Problems with the Americans – Formerly independent Technicolor was taken over again in 1960’s. Elvin told Len to attend the Negotiating Committee in London 1948 or 9. […]
[…]at which, because Terry and I worked together on the pet O'Brien picture, or anyone that was,Unknown Speaker 15:32 oh, that's when I went independent, of course, because we're now, ISpeaker 1 15:43 this is when I started doing pictures for all these various distributors like […]
