[…]the industry. In fact the excellent book on Edinburgh Cinemas and a later DVD on the same subject brought back wonderful memories and remembrances of films viewed in all of the venues mentioned … and even of a couple of cinemas that even the author of those tomes had omitted!This passion had intensi[…]
[…]here when were you born. A little let me about your family your father.SPEAKER: M9Yes. My father was very influential on my final decision to go into films. I was born in thirty one in a small town in Lincolnshire called Boston Boston Lincolnshire which of course gave the name to the rather larger t[…]
[…] thirteen or fourteen, and then my father would take us for a treat each school holidays, and sometimes the theatre, and then he started taking us to films. I mean, the first films I kind of remember were things like Lost Horizon.
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[…]rs and Preservationists, all led by Harold, and it was busy but not highly staffed. In London there was the Acquisitions, myself in charge of feature films, and someone for documentaries someone for television, and I was sort of in charge of them, vaguely.3MW: Remind us who those were.CJ: […]
[…] London there was the Acquisitions, myself in charge of feature films, and someone for documentaries someone for telev ision, and […]
[…]eir ideas and their planning. So I proposed to cut them in to the process of editorial control. They agreed and they gave me complete access to the deliberations and meetings of the Committee. And we filmed for a couple of weeks, highly complex arguments, very subtle arguments about the way in which[…]
[…]lways felt that I wasn't part of this in this life and kept out of farming activities as best I could. For some reason or another I got interested in films. A school friend called Peter La Touche gave me some film magazines once and they were very intriguing. Somehow or other he laid his hands on a […]
[…] then, if it's doubled up, as you know, yes,Roy Fowler 12:57 the it's what I wanted to ask was, how influenced you had been by the German films of the 20s. Living in Berlin, this was the great era of the German film. Well, I alwaysSpeaker 1 13:10 have been, even up to now, I […]
[…]so on. And just nature of the work.John Hargreaves 32:36 documentary those days, if I can pick you up on those, I think it was one of the Liberation's of British transport that we could work from transports rather, treatments rather than so called executive scripts, which rarely correspo[…]
[…]ther studios there was an up and coming director called Arthur Woods who everybody spoke very highly of and Claude Friese-Green was photographing his films and there was the young operator of private operator working for Claude called Ronnie Neame you need a ride he had a little Peugot car and he li[…]
