[…] mother in those days. And I was always grumbling, or rather admiring Jenny because she used to come on her own. She was all by herself always and so independent and I used to admire that so much. I said to her you are lucky, it is wonderful to do it like that. And she said no, on the contrary, I wi[…]
[…]ked up the Timesone morning and found out that they had double crossed him and it was not to be a filmsdepartment, such as the BBC might be which was independent of everything but it was to be underthe Central Office of Information and that was the fatal mistake. I got the catalogue of the CanadianN[…]
[…] films department, such as the BBC might be which was independent of everything but it was to be under the […]
[…] to remember…I mean, one looks at the history…the ACTT strike…the strike at that particular time did underline that the practices…Labour practices in independent television were hopeless, were outdated, and the overtime situation was absolutely appalling. The Yorkshire problems were greater th[…]
[…]t I think, when you were assistant Head of Films? NS Yes, that’s right. Correct, yes. JG There are two sidelines along all this. I made two independent films. one was sort of - well I made two films - one was for the BFI Experimental Fund, called The Visit, which I made while I was at Eali[…]
[…]ojectionist as such, because I would have said to know what the world was called projectionist in those days, but I want to be a chap that showed the films in the cinema. So when I was in front of this board to select a job and talking to set the other I didn't know anything about it, or more or les[…]
[…]l, Alan knows as much about it as I do, I think because yes it was a tightly knit studio you know, it was. It operated as a rental studio you see for independent producers, independent companies, and insofar as Stoll Production itself was concerned I don't think anything very distinguished was done […]
[…] was Thorold Dickinson's first directorial effort. It was made by independent company, although made at Ealing with a lot of […]
