[…] it.AL: Did Grierson or Cavalcanti influence you at all?SC: Cav did but that was later on at Ealing. My involvement was on and off. I did a film with John Taylor called 'Smoke Menace' which was about pollution from the amount of smoke being pumped into the atmosphere. There's a story which John and […]
[…] to have the same scriptwriters for a long time. After John Schlesinger did Terminus, one of his first jobs was […]
[…] involvement was on and off. I did a film with John Taylor called Smoke Menace which was about pollution from the […]
[…]ording is vested in the British entertainment history project. The name of the interviewee is Ronald grant. The interviewer is Mike dick, on cameras, John Luton. The interview number is eight to nine. The date is the 24th of April 2023. And we're filming at the cinema Museum in Kensington, London, w[…]
[…] and they were doing series like, when I first joined them they had a series called Redcap, which was about the Military Police, a Drama series which John, the young John Thaw, it was his first, it was his first major television series. And they were also doing a thing called Public Eye which was a […]
[…] I earlier tried to get into the BBC. But of course they were taking everybody coming back from the forces, bit like the film industry, you know, the John Mitchell's all coming back from there. Anyway, the I've took the liberty of phoning the staff, establishment people, I think the Langham and I to[…]
[…]ure film I think was Halfway House - it was supposed to be made at Ealing but they didn't have any room so they pushed it over to us. That was Mervyn Johns and his daughter Glynis Johns, and she was only sixteen at the time [laughs] - got to get them all when they're young! And er - it was a sort of[…]
