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[…]st: J. Stuart Blackton, Commodore Blackton he liked to be called.Roy Fowler: Yes?Eddie Dryhurst: [Chuckles] I wonder why?Roy Fowler: Which was a self-awarded title was it, or rank?Eddie Dryhurst: I don't know, I know he liked to be called Commodore.Roy Fowler: Sounds like a Southern Colonelcy doesn'[…]
[…]made a few films about that. But in the meantime you were continuing with these ground-breaking charity films, which of course, lots of them won many awards.Yes, we did a very important film actually called Stand Up The Real Glynn Vernon.The Spastics Society.Yes. That, that won a Golden Reel or some[…]
[…] 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 […]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 108[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2003-03-18Interview Date: 1989-11-23Interviewers: John LegardInterviewee: Hugh StewartTape 1, Side 1John Legard: Hugh Stewart, film producer, recorded on the 23rd of November 1989, in his home. Interviewer John Legard. Sid[…]
[…], I come from New Zealand. My parents came from New Zealand as well. And my grandparents went out to New Zealand in the very early days of the colonisation of New Zealand, and became, among the earliest citizens there, they went from Scotland, on both sides of the family. I suppose that the the most[…]
[…] good story about the importance of black culture in the West Indies and elsewhere on this country. And thatmovie was in the last three for the Focal Awards that year. And. So wedidn't get them gong but we got to the dinner. So that was nice. A good relationship with producerGary Hughes. And then we[…]
    EXTRACT: On losing the job of a lifetime:-"I said a permanent job in films or television would be like winning the pools - any kind of a job, I’d be grateful. I suddenly got a phone call one day to see this guy called Ward Thomas, so I go traipsing down to this place beh[…]
[…]Prosser: But that was finally...I only tore up the papers for that a year or so ago. That original draft. But that's, I felt, was a certain amount of achievement in the interests of public money rather than anything else.Alan Lawson: As it were...you've left a monument...[chuckles]David Prosser: Yea[…]
