[…]Irish in America and they wanted to set up this Cable Company that would broadcast to them so we had quite a lot of conversations with them about our library becoming involved in this venture. You know, it was going to be a venture but, eventually, they just kind of ran into the sand. Nothing came o[…]
[…] They lasted about three and a half minutes and that was it. And I did progress because I was running these little films and I found that there was a library in a chemist just up the road so with my pocket money I used to go and rent a film for the weekend. [TIME 00.04.57] It was one of the silent c[…]
[…]tionship or an one way relationship? What do you think they got out of the links with the project? Oh I think a very useful adjunct to the library. What, providing material, providing interviews? For research, yes. Yes, yes. Yes, the tapes. […]
[…]bsp; First sent to Overseas Service at Bush House as Script Writer. I knew Bush House from student days, used canteen when working at LSE Library. Remarkable emigres and exiles. Ludwig Hoffman was my boss, spoke 8 languages. “You thought you were at the heart of things”. My first assignm[…]
[…]t away. I can’t get back to London.” He said “No, no, he is going to be in Brussels.” So I had to get a book out of the Luxembourg library of The Winter’s Tale which I had never read and I went to Brussels on the stage of the (Time 20:01 ) National Theatre Bruss[…]
[…]rl Dreyer and The Day Of Wrath - I found the play of it. He'd originally found the original play, made the film. So I found the play somewhere in the library of the school, and I did an extract from that and what did I do? It's all about a young woman being married to an old pastor, who's got an eve[…]
[…]es and I go and start researching. And when I have a job because being in the film industry, it's all freelance, I always buy something either for my library or to do with paintbrushes or something. I buy something on every job I go on so I gradually accumulate a nice shelf of books or objects, some[…]
[…]is weird film, which was then projected on a kind of unsuspecting responsible citizens, who bothered to come to this film if it was shown in a public library, and students, in a sense it was more of a kind of captive audience, and supposedly more interested in, essentially interested, but it was the[…]
[…]was all overseas, they used to supply the Land Rovers and we used to, then you know, I had to do that go around and get sort of millions of copies of library films and ship them out there and you know, people used to come in for their commission you know people sound racist that you know, come in fr[…]
