[…]to my mind he was the sort of one of the few indispensable people in that business in our business. Yeah the musical director who was not only a good musician but also a good film maker.SPEAKER: M16Well in those days putting music to films was a very different exercise than it is today where you hav[…]
[…]be a very good we're on to a very good thing here and then we're going to be splendid. And then they were doing also series on the lives of the great musicians. Chopin with Mary Ellis? playing Georges Sands Alan Legard 19:03 Oh, yes, Mary EllisRichard Marden 19:05 […]
[…]in in Hania who was old friends then there from then on, I got to know one or two Greek people and some quite interesting Greek poets and musicians, I got to know many Meny Hanudarkis? and I wanted to carry on and try and do a Greek fable that had no rights attached to it. Called t[…]
[…]ub together and, or else we’d make music, because the place was, ha, we had, there was a lovely Bechstein grand and one of the lodgers was marvellous musician,one of ‘the mares’ as they called them. It was a splendid pianist and another one wasa, Olga fabulous singing voice and so we had our own con[…]
[…]d from Morton Hall to Shepperton. We shot it to playback but we didn't record any sound. So you had you know, you had to lip sync? Yes. Yes. We had a musician there called Fred Lewis, who would give us the bars were the things seemed started and the dialogue and the Beretta and we would just sink fo[…]
[…]uite horrendous and I now when I look back, I was filled with horror because it was much more complicated than directing a programme solo item with a musician, which I'd been doing when I was directing. It was really a prestigious show was shown all over the country and all over the country that had[…]
[…]ood idea. It gives work to all the technicians, to all the people working in the industry. I will support it but you will never get approval from the Musicians' Union. And I forgot the name of the guy. Tough guy.Alan Sapper : Yes, Hardy Radcliff [?].Lew Grade : Hardy Radcliff. You never get permissi[…]
