[…] started a film society and was buying Close up and had Paul Rotha's Film till Now which I thought was absolutely wonderful and I used to look at the pictures and wish they could move, and we started the film society and wrote to Grierson who was really quite a hero and he said come to Oxford St whi[…]
[…]how I got there on the very first day in fact.AG: From the way you're describing this you weren't in any kind ofpermanent job. How were you employed, picture to picture?DB: Yes, picture to picture. Totally freelance all the way through. Ihaven't mentioned the money. I should mention the money really[…]
[…] houses in London were at a premium, because everybody was moving out of big ones to save central heating and […]
[…] writing. Somebody was trying to disguise who they were. A picture of Gordon Craig who had recently been made a […]
[…]ank that lady in Edinburgh, more than you can ever imagine.MIKE DICK: Pursuing this little line about fame. What kind of circles were you moving in, what kind of doors did it open for you?PETE MURRAY: Well, wherever you went, if you went to a restaurant they treated you unbelievabl[…]
[…]ainting and I had painted this portrait of her from a photograph and she was quite impressed, I was quite impressed myself, I mean, it was a terrible picture thinking about it now, but at the time. I went with a pal of mine and my missus, it was my girl friend then. We went to picture an[…]
[…]these films and I thought I was going to make it look like October. But all the time I was very impatient to keep going, to keep going, and of course moving around the steelworks was - I mean an incredible problem for the crew, for Ray Elton and his sparks. And so it was fairly tense but gradually I[…]
[…]id, Absolutely, absolutely unfit to travel, that he was determined. And he did and he died at sea. And I recall so vividly. That burial at sea was so moving, coffin being weighed, lowered. So we got to Avonmouth on the fourth or the fifth of November in an air raid, and the Daily Mail, the Dai[…]
[…] And looking, and looking on the wall and seeing this picture saying ‘How do you know Anna’? And she said […]
