[…] I, well, I AFM’ed for about six months and then applied for attachment.On what sort of shows?Oh it was in Drama only. But when I applied for a floor managing attachment that was on General Programmes, I thought it would be a good idea to get out of Drama and just see how everything else worked and.[…]
[…]p;Song for Europe, I did again and I did The Variety Club Lunch for Bill Cotton, in honour of Bill Cotton, who was that year retiring from being Managing Director of BBC Television and my old mate. And, and they gave a Variety Club Lunch in his honour, for his thirty-two years at BBC Television[…]
[…]geable man, very helpful as a producer. I was very lucky indeed. I learned from all of them, and I needed to.LW: Can you remember your first day as a director.WT: I certainly remember the first day on the set of All for Mary, I've a picture of it. It’s a picture of me taken with strangely enough Joh[…]
[…] of Bill Cotton, who was that year retiring from being Managing Director of BBC Television and my old mate. And, […]
[…]ere, and organizing the parking and the catering and the and and just, you know, getting to know the crew making she I mean, the thing about location managing, which was that was certainly more location and that same on Crystal gazing, I was more the location manager, because there wasn't a location[…]
[…]. And he was very good to him you see sending money and, and, you know, he was a Spanish working class boy, he was now working in the hotels I think, managing hotels. No, Cocteau, I, I don't know, but I would want to, no, you see, homosexuals, are you an homosexual?No, no.56Elizabeth Furse DRAFT. Ta[…]
[…] boy, he was now working in the hotels I think, managing hotels. No, Cocteau, I, I don't know, but I […]
[…] no experience of anything but he became a quota film director. They were really entrepreneurs. Roy Fowler: Hmm. It's difficult for […]
[…]is an old fuss-pot but he is Very good.Alan Lawson: Is he an artist's director or a technician's director?Freddie Francis: He is definitely an artist director. He's fine. Anyway after French Lieutenant's Woman, I went over to you to Utah and did The Executioner's SongAlan Lawson: Can we come back to[…]
THE ACTT HISTORY PROJECT – CEDRIC DAWE, ART DIRECTOR.INTERVIEWER: ROY FOWLER.The copyright 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 ind[…]
