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[…]er, I did The Ted Heath Band Show, which was just wonderful, it was something out of this world, something I shall never forget and a treat in a lifetime to do and I shall never forget it.What especially pleased you?DS: It was just doing this marvellous music, this wonderful band, this huge ban[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 121[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2003-02-086Interview Date: 1989-11-25Interviewer: Sidney ColeInterviewee: Charles CooperTape 1, Side 1Sidney Cole: Copyright recording by the ACTT History Project, Sidney Cole interviewing Charles Cooper, Distributor and E[…]
[…]nterviewing Francis Cockburn I spell the name C O C K B U R N, who started life in the film industry as an editor became a producer and finally information officer interviewer is Margaret Thompson the date is the 16th of March 1990 side one.So, Frances tell us something about your background where y[…]
[…]t telling the story right you may as well forget it. So that was one of the valuable lessons I learnt there.Alan Lawson: Every shot is not an Academy Award.Freddie Francis: No, sometimes, I have a wonderful camera operator called Gordon Hayman who has just been with me ever since French Lieutenant's[…]
[…]film about the changes in coal mining which took place during one man's working lifetime. Started the film out in black and white and then real two went back&nb[…]
[…]and to Telecinè like carrying a baby. [interviewers’ laughter] And it did rather well, it, it got written up in the 33:00 ‘Mirror’; which was a major achievement for a sort of documentary.Norman Swallow: I think ‘Chronicle’ was a marvellous series.Julia Cave: I think it was a marvellous series. […]
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[…]aches.Speaker 1 29:38 Oh dear. There was something dreadful we did at Film Center for one of the oil companies, which was called all in a lifetime. And it was somebody's mad idea that you could make a film which showed that the whole petroleum industry had been. Gun and grown up to be a […]
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