[…]only those people can actually get paid for by the organisation they work for and...Can we hear a bit, a bit more about, personally about Jim and his achievements in that you talk about?Well, the lecture that’s named after him was there because in fact in those days, which was in fact, and he died i[…]
[…]' He said, 'Well, come down because they could do with men, because they’re busy.' They were doing 'Elephant Boy' and things like that at the time, and that’s how I came into the industry. I’m not very clever, I’m only average, but I got on in the industry - I got known - and in th[…]
[…]s or work and ideas. And he made a prize winning film was Ron Wyatt, the combination of the two called Guinness Guinness at the Albert Hall which won awards. And obviously, Richard Williams was trying to get financed because he made his one of his early films, little island. And he was working on ot[…]
[…]d wholly as Birmingham productions. And another one was Poldark, I managed to get Poldark. And those programmes gave us an awful sense of achievement, particularly as you were a region. Because up until then those type of productions only ever came out of London. So we established oursel[…]
[…]n and will never see the original, so perhaps the real lives in the foreground and I project behind the cold piece of glass, if that is not called an achievement, I don’t know what is.Of the drama documentaries, Zuckmayers, The Cold Light which is Fuchs spy story, John Robinson [Longden] and Marius […]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 118[Copyright BECTU] Transcription Date: 1998-12-12Interview Date: ??? Interviewer: Ralph Bond ?Interviewee: Ivor Montagu NB: This is evidently the transcript of the soundtrack of a filmed interview with Ivor Montagu (details not given on tap[…]
[…]rse. But a lot of them would bequite good, but could do better? Oh, yes. I can only sum up my career as in films as being, to me an amazing series of achievements, which I didn't expect to makean awareness that I could have done more. And Annapolis a few things too. So I mean, I that's the way it is[…]
