David Robson

[…]let me be on the set most of the time, or sit with the sound recordist, you know. There were other films being made there at the time - 'Land Without Music' and various things like that. But the atmosphere was absolutely wonderful, I used to think, "People are being paid for this - I'd do it for not[…]

Michael (Mickey) Hickey

[…]at time. Well after that, you know, things began to move and we're getting into '29 now, getting February, March. And what's happened is now, the old Music Halls are beginning to go broke, they're feeling the pinch. So the Stoll circuit and the Moss Empires, they had their own circuit of - so this i[…]

Monty Berman

[…]se television companies turndown things today. Anyway we met, Bob and I went to a cocktail party at Stanley Blacks.Because Stanley used to do all the music for our films and Lew was there and we weretalking to Lew. He was then ATV and we said Lew we would like to make a series aboutThe Saint. Oh, he[…]

Vernon Sewell

[…] Sewell: Yes!Roy Fowler: What was Nettlefold's interest? Did he have anything other than money as an interest?Vernon Sewell: Yes! Yes! Musical instruments, wind instruments. He had a room about four times as big as a billiard room, full of brass instruments. He didn't know what they w[…]

Teddy Darvas

[…]erations of children - one generation went to the United States and the family name was Zahler and in Hollywood there are some Zahlers - one composed music for a lot of republic second features and his son is also - I have seen his credit - his son is also a composer. They have completely lost touch[…]

David Attenborough

[…]his right, because at the end the object had to go back in, the lid had come down and we would be off again, in sequence, and this had to be timed to music.And then the other obsession that Paul had was that you had to superimpose, now that was not true, there were in other programmes where you had […]

John Dark

[…]e. So we had one used to sort of perpetually be shunted around the world. I would then move my base from London to Rome and we were going to make the musical version of Roman Holiday that Franco's ever really was going to direct. And we spent a lot of money and didn't get very far. And it was sad be[…]

Joy Batchelor

[…] were fine for other things but they were no good for film at all. So what did you work on when you first went to John's?Joy Batchelor: A film called Music Man, which was based on the life of Liszt. It was a terrible [indecipherable]. The design was quite good, colour was nice. I think John and I bo[…]
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