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[…] really art directors film or designers films. Not many. No. No. And you know it's sad. It's like the Oscars. How can room with a view get the design award which was all made on location. You know and yet by the same token there were films being made with fantastic sets.SPEAKER: M34You know and you […]
[…]in the industry.DB. I can in a way sympathise with it because a film costs more, it's more elaborate, and it's kind of built to last. It has a longer lifetime in cinema whereas television is churn churn churn; it's gone very quickly.PS. Yes, but if you're using the same material, the same equipment,[…]
[…]Welshpool.Welshpool. Nationality?British.Some people, you know, it’s not always the right question. One of the things we have on the database is awards and honours and things like that. Have you had any [inaudible]?Well, I’m a Fellow of the Royal College of Art, and, I’ve got a BAFTA.[…]
[…]oy Fowler: Yes, A Man For All Seasons.E.M. Smedley-Aston: Man For All Seasons. Peter got the Director's Guild Hollywood Assistant Directors Award for it. And he was a great guy and he was very showbusiness because his father gad been a comedian on the northern circuit. In those days everyt[…]
[…] says to me, "I won't be able to do the coal any more" he says, "I think I'll get a little shop." He wasn't strong enough, you know. Although, in his lifetime he lived to over ninety, it's marvellous, living on fruit I think! So anyway, I went with the other Uncle then, who had an old T Ford, and I […]
