[…]ce if you want to take any of this money back [home] or exchange it.” We were there for well over a week without being able to shoot at all.RF: As an independent, once Rank had given you the OK, did you get any interference?VG: No interference at all; I must say in all fairness once the script was a[…]
[…]nown Speaker 39:56 What kind of production wasSpeaker 2 39:57 that that was so. The Portman quintet productions. So it was an independent production with four channel four. I believe that tie up with Channel FourUnknown Speaker 40:22 was that another location?Unkn[…]
[…]- I think they must have come after. Oh yes, I know how I got out of them - how I got to make my first feature - at Beaconsfield was a company called Independent Producers and the producers were Julian Wintle and Leslie - Park, Parks? Leslie...Rodney Giesler: Something like that... [NB. Leslie Parky[…]
[…] after Citizen Kane Yes. But he wasn't well known in the film industry. He wasn't a Waxman or a Newman or any of the other great composers. He was an independent composer he worked for Hitchcock of course at that time and he became very he did a number of films with Hitchcock to tell me. And there's[…]
[…]ys Court anyway? I mean, was that because you were overflowing?Richard Marden 43:06 Well, they were saying it wasn't a Kays film an independent production exclusive. I think I was in Yeah.Alan Legard 43:14 So anyway,Richard Marden 43:15 so that was only 49. […]
[…]?Kay Mander: Well, no this film - something else that I'd like you to pick up with people, there was a strange man, who was running something called 'Independent Producers and Distributors' - he was a Russian.Sidney Cole: Not Sir Gaylord Randolph [Gaynor Bancock?][??]Kay Mander: No, no he was a writ[…]
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[…], the freelance market and living it still at Gerald's cross and working in bekins field, it was all very cosy. And I really knew nothing. So all the independent production companies and so I applied for a job at the BBC heard nothing. But meanwhile, I was offered a job at the shell Film Unit as an […]
