[…] art school at Hornsey College of Art for two years, and then came out in drifted a certain amount. Now, in 1960, purely by accident, I fell into the film industry. I had been drinking with a friend of mine who had been at art school, who was by this time and assistant director working at Shepperton[…]
[…]t absolutely essential so long as you've got a telephone and something to write with . And I made quite a number of pictures and I was 10 years as an independent, not easy, i wouldn't recommend it to anyone, it was difficult until 1959, having made one or two pictures for Alf Shipman, at Riverside, […]
[…]Peter Birch : Oh to be in sync, you mean?Alan Lawson : The sound and picture camera came up together.Peter Birch : No, we didn't have that, we ran in independently. I would start my sound camera prior to the picture camera starting, so that we're up to speed and able to record. And then we had, of c[…]
[…]en I took a course in teaching English because I thought I’d better have something to do, and then – which I think we’ll do after lunch – I became an independent producer.Which is where you are now?Which I still am, yes.We’re now going to have a commercial break.We’ll now have a commercial break.[br[…]
[…] I think we’ll do after lunch – I became an independent producer. Which is where you are now? Which I […]
[…]. I wasn’t made Head of Documentaries at Thames, bizarre because I was clearly the right person, so it was easy to resign and step into unknown as an independent producer. I’d spent so many years working to have Channel 4 created that I couldn’t imagine not being part of it. &[…]
[…]d JB, who had also been trained as an architect, and gave JB a broader vision that Vetchinsky; JB was under contact at Rank when he got involved with Independent Frame which collapsed; JB then worked with Carmen Dillon on a Disney film; JB became art director on Million Pound Note alongside Jack Max[…]
