Derek Threadgall

[…]was something about the decor. Something about the environment of a cinema in those days. Be it a flea pit or whatever and you had this. There's this music playing in the interval. You had these these lights these which of course you didn't have a home. It was a totally different ballgame because at[…]

Michael Colomb

[…]e he wasn't very pleased about that.The So I'm trying to think of all the chronologically because it's very I had forces in betweenthestage one was a music stage and they did the the music for Caesar and Cleopatra. George Bernard Shaw came down. And the director, David Gabby Pascal  at that tim[…]

John Schlesinger

[…]idnight on February 16th And we, my father was apaediatrician, my mother was a very good amateur violinist. So my early years were really filled with music in our Hampstead home, until the war came, and that altered everything. Norman Swallow: You were at school locally were you John Schle[…]

Diana Morgan

[…]irecting it and gave it up, and Robert took over. SC: Yes I think it was beyond… Harry Watt was… he wasn’t Welsh, he was Scotch. DM: Well a musical was beyond him. He wanted to do it, badly. But when he got to it he found he couldn’t. SC: But I think – it’s interesting, I’d have to lo[…]

Stephen Peet

[…] not the subtitles - the captions, and insert them and re-edit a bit... "Life in an English village" which had just had commentary and I suppose some music... must have been music and commentary... and made it into another film similar, but with captions. Which nearly fell flat on my face because a […]

Diana Morgan Transcript

[…] see I haven’t got perfect pitch, and I can’t read music. And I thought I can’t start to learn that […]

HP0005 Dallas Bower – Transcript

[…] it, it wasn’t microphones, it was to do with recording music really well ; halfpenny under a galvanometer, greatly increased […]

Roger Bernard Newbold Smither

[…]had been doing various earlier experiments with film restoration and the other things that go with presentation of archive film: the commissioning of music and we’d had an early run at the Battle of the Ancre, which is the first time we engaged with a composer called Laura Rossi who wrote music for […]
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