[…]the Film Unit and then there was, perhaps, more Studio but, looking outwards, did you feel any kinship with your fellow Film Directors outwith in the Independent Sector because particularly in the eighties and nineties there was a lot of stuff going on about creating a Scottish Film industry and wha[…]
[…]cally, if you've got somebody on blue, you turn the area around them in black, and then clear. But there was another system which was used completely independently, which was to actually do a mail matte complete reverse. But nobody ever did the two at once. So what we did is we thought, well, we can[…]
[…]dtrack of a filmed interview with Ivor Montagu (details not given on tape)Tape 1, Side 1Interviewer : How would you evaluate the effectiveness of the independent films of the '30s in reaching an audience?Ivor Montagu : The independent films of the 30s, independent, progressive, political films - wha[…]
[…] Odeon, Harrogate and the Odeon, Morecombe. He then became the regional manager for SM Associated Cinemas, Southan Morris’s, large, 270 cinema, independent outfit.00:03:54 He was in charge of the potteries and various cinemas in the vicinity. So […]
[…] just went and walked around, and talked to Don White who'd been our production manager before the war and he was sort of chief production manager to independent producers. Ooh, he said, you want a job? Right, got one right away. I've forgotten what I did...yes, was it 'Brief Encounter'? Yes I was w[…]
[…] there and enthusiastic. He then went out to Hollywood and became a great lighting designer in Hollywood.Roy Fowler: Yes, he directed one or two films out there, didn't he?Joan Kemp-Welch: Yes and he died, oh, I suppose about twenty years ago, didn't he?Roy Fowler: I can't remember wh[…]
[…]nd what a sound recordist was in those days because there were only two ways of doing it – you either went into broadcasting or gramophone records or films and it was practically unknown for anybody to be interested in such a thing.I was always fascinated by sounds and that is what I wanted to do. A[…]
[…]ontext for people who don't know about it, it was a home grown British movie, yes, which achieved a great reputation. It was. It was a very important independent movie, wasn't it? Ernest Marsh 33:36 Oh, it was. It was produced by Tony tenser of Ty Goon films, yeah, and it'[…]
[…]n: Yes, yes.Rodney Giesler: This was before television wasn't it?Dicky Leeman: Yes. I didn't get into television until I did these, I was doing these Independent Frame things, which were, I think it was Dave Rawnsley, the art director. He brought this idea of no sets, everything was done with back p[…]
