[…]If you're doing a, if you're doing a, if you're doing a 1415, week shoot, you're, you know, you with 50 people on a day to day basis, that's a lot of lifetimes. If you, if you look at that, that's, that's probably, you know, it's about 12 years of a lifetime. So you're going to have birth, deaths an[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]ar, as the 'best film from any source', which speaks highly for the non-actor. Now, if non-actors can suddenly appear and be nominated for an Academy Award, there is something in that system of film making, and we can't do it now... because of the union trouble. So that it means that a vital form, a[…]
[…]and I think we were having a drink and I bumped into him or something and he said, 'Well, boy. Well, there it is. There it is. It's a very remarkable achievement. Now you see I've made 112 Films, 112, all bad but 112.' [LAUGHTER] That was the kind of man he was.Roy Fowler 34:30 […]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 431[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: TBCInterview Date: 1998-03-25Interviewer: Alan LawsonInterviewee: David Robson[Tape 1, Side 1]The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. David Robson, one time cinema projectionist, television […]
[…]eter Handford and I was on one of the microphone booms at the time and a ten minute tape without any fluffs or flaws from any department was quite an achievement. I can remember we got through one difficult one, we got about 8 minutes into it and the stills man decided to take a flash because he tho[…]
[…] 1987, interviewer Alan LawsonAL: Where were you born.BM: I was born in Edgebaston, which is the snob part of Birmingham on 9th November 1915 .AL : What kind of schooling did you receive.BM: I went to one of the classy Birmingham prep schools called West House and then I went to Gresham's in Norfolk[…]
[…]probably know, his brother, Anatole de Grunwald was quite a well-established screenwriter and producer at that time and he made several ... He made anaward-winning film called The Way to the Stars in 1940 something ... [TIME00.13.08] I can’t quite remember. And actually to show y[…]
[…]ve him half an hour, so you can just quickly read it to yourself; leave him alone, let him go, give him half hour and you’ll get the performance of a lifetime.” He came back and he got a round of applause. He was brilliant, brilliant.McG: And a gentleman?[18.35]HF: Oh, he’s a wonderful man. Too soft[…]
[…]he Cannes Festival under the banner of London Films, it was British Lion by then, and he 7 asked to send it to Cannes which he did and it won an award of course for the short film of that year.And so it was entirely by luck, it could have sat down in those vaults forever, because it was a year […]
