[…]h the editor and the assistant. But as time went on you got to take on more of the responsibility of actually doing the job of assistant, so you know managing all the content that was coming into the cutting room and that was being worked on, liaising with production and the other disciplines as wel[…]
[…] others were good fun, but you know, you didn’t have to be Beerbohm Tree to play them. This was serious; with Cavalcanti directing – he was a serious director.McG: Tell me about Cavalcanti as a director.HF: Lovely man. I used to have to – on Champagne Charlie he didn’t like Tommy Trinder.[Laughter] […]
[…] before, you see I'd gone to Denham and the then managing director of the new amalgamated company went sick and […]
[…]So I went up with a chap called John Hooper, another cameraman, and had a talk to Paul Fox. [BEHP Interview No 277] and Will Wyatt, who was Assistant Managing Director at that stage I think, and Paul was very straightforward, he said “Times are changing. I hate to say it, we’d be very happy to take […]
[…] like that, at eleven o'clock in the morning. And when the lights went up, who should I see sitting in front of me but Jack Holmes who was the senior director. And I thought, "Oh my God this is it," you know, [chuckles] it's like being found out for truancy, I mean it really was bad news! And as he […]
[…]earsal ended at 1 pm and there were 480 bars of new music. When do you want it asked Bennett. 10, tomorrow morning, replied Jerome Robins who was the director. Later that evening I knocked on the door of Russell Bennett's room, a few Martinis on the previous day's journey from New York had put us on[…]
[…]in the ... something to do with films." Because he was keeping tabs on it all as he wanted to find a client for himself. They said they wanted an Art Director. I went along. Now to me luck is the only thing worth bothering about Well, there I was . . . Ralph Hanbury rang me up and asked me to […]
[…] have been a bit easier if I wanted it’, and he said, ‘Yes, yes’. I decided I would, ‘Of course you must do it, it’s a wonderful institution’.Huw was Managing Director, Television?Nancy Tbomas DRAFT Page 33He was MD Television, yes. And he was thrilled actually because he found the Open Univers[…]
[…] and went to tactical film and said, well, there's your film, there's only one thing I've got to ask and that is that john hollows name remains on as director. And Ireally thought it was such an injustice and quiteapart from this would have been nonsan absurd to have my name martyrs. Who the hell wa[…]
[…]ny.Alright. Can you give an instance?Oh well many, well many times I, you know, I've said that well, oh I well I mean obviously you, you can tell the director. And I know, you know, we were talking about Tilly, well Tilly is a great one, she used to write beautiful things on the, on thebottom of the[…]
