[…]utone did know of certain people who were also disgusted by the general low standard of Infantryequipment and Infantry training and we also collected films, we got some German films from theArmy cinematograph Corps the AKC, we got some Russian films.Taylor/Peet: What kind of films?Denis Forman: The […]
[…] of Infantry equipment and Infantry training and we also collected films, we got some German films from the Army cinematograph […]
[…] I did nothing that prepared me for my career in films. During the normal course of eduction in secondary school […]
[…]any longer. It was hit by a flying bomb during the war. I don't think there was anything particularly of note during my school career. I always liked films. I wanted to get into films. From an early age I liked the cinema. I was interested in photography. My father was interested in photography, jus[…]
[…] cameras and back-projection techniques. He recalls the production of many films, including King of the Damned, The Astonished Heart (1949) […]
[…]ilm business?SC : At that time it was very exciting. Although it of aperiod of changeover from silent to sound, it was also a great period for seeing films for there was a cinema called The Avenue Pavillion which was more or less where the Columbia is now and they showed an amazing variety of films […]
[…]nd you, because I hated school and I didn't learn much. But that's really it. I wanted to be in the film business you see, I was passionately fond of films all the time, possibly it was a bit of an escapist thing at first, I expect, because of getting away from school you know. And there was a littl[…]
[…]nce and learning was when I left school and when I was about sixteen I got a job with an American filmmaker called Alan Forbes. Alan made documentary films. He was in London and he taught me about editing, and about camera operating, and about sound, and basically was a very committed filmmaker. And[…]
[…]technicolour at that time. I think we're getting involved in making gunnery training films for the Admiralty and George Gunn who is head of the Canberra department w[…]
[…]ry few Indians in this country and just to jump, I remember some time later when I was wearing a sari – this was after the war and I was in films – andsomebody couldn’t understand why I was wearing evening dress during the day, youknow, we were that rare really, is what I was say[…]
