[…]ays a fuss about the corsets – “oh, they’re too tight, I can’t stand that” – but in the end, they kind of got used to it! (Laughs)RL: You had another award. I suppose we would call it a BAFTA award today, but it was before BAFTAs.JH: Yes, it was for The Wrong Box. In those days, the award for costum[…]
[…]d they'd like you to go and see him about it, you know. So I went along and saw him, and that was my first documentary film. It's called the corridor achievement. Terribly boring subject. It was, you know, and then I started doing a few documentaries for them,Speaker 1 21:07 most of you […]
[…]pyright of the following recording is vested with the BECTU History project. It is the 19th of November 1991. We are in Chartridge in Buckinghamshire at the home of Cedric Dawe, an Art Director whose career in the industry goes back to 1932, but we will start at the very beginning. Cedric would you […]
[…]on ran. It was for theatre directors actually but I was an unsuccessful applicant. I was on the shortlist but I didn't get one of the bursaries. They awarded six bursaries each year but through that very strange tangential contact, suddenly ABC Television offered me a job! I'd never really been thin[…]
[…]here it is, you’ve made it. And I just want to say that I thinkChannel 4 is the most important thing that will ever happen to British television in mylifetime and anything that I or LWT can do to make it succeed we will do, so the episode’s at an end’, which I thought was extremely generous of him r[…]
[…]ll the way I’m afraid. It is boring isn’t it.AL Not really, no.GH A lot of the people I have been attached with, with Dickie both of my Academy awards have been because of Dickie on Chorus Line and Ghandi. I had a wonderful evening – he was responsible for that – I was attending at the G[…]
[…]aham: How long were you with them?Eric Cross: About two years I think, until Bernard Miles wanted me to do a film called Tawny Pippet and Chance of a Lifetime.Arthur Graham: And you worked on those two films.Eric Cross: I worked on those two yes.Arthur Graham: And then were did you go after that? Wh[…]
[…]s day, you mean, I find it difficult to understand where the politics in Ireland are because the Labour Party in Ireland is the toffs party. So in my lifetime, they have never formed a government. I don't think they ever have you me. But in my time, they've been in coalitions with Fine Gael and Fian[…]
