[…]rom there, where did you go? What happened? PB-C: Well, I freelanced for a time after that as a camera assistant, and I remember working for the National Coal Board, which was interesting stuff… DB: So this was via contacts or an agency? Or the union? PB-C: You mentioned the union; th[…]
[…] they all - a lot of them were in their national costume, you know, Dutchmen in the clogs and the […]
[…] had left there, you know. So I would have like to have seen him, it would have been a matter of interest. And they all - a lot of them were in their national costume, you know, Dutchmen in the clogs and the big old peak cap and all that sort of thing. See, what happened apparently, and I heard abou[…]
[…]ow, produced it anyway. And he pleaded with me to do this film and I said, "Well I don't know, I've got things to think about." He'd been told by the National Film Finance Corporation that if he didn't get me he wouldn't get the money, and he didn't get the money. I mean that's stupid isn't it? But […]
[…]d it even got to the stage. Sorry, I'm jumping around forwards and backwards fine. On on savage Messiah. We're shooting at the grandly named Lee International Film Studios, which was a disused biscuit factory and off cancel road. The they were shooting mainly in in the sort of makeshift studio about[…]
[…]ife. And her life included, prevail, which was the constituency of her husband, Michael foot, also the constituency of an Aryan Bevan, founder of the National Health Service. She said, Why don't you make your first film in Abba Vale? And I listened to what she said and I thought, well, maybe, maybe […]
[…]d it even got to the stage. Sorry, I'm jumping around forwards and backwards fine. On on savage Messiah. We're shooting at the grandly named Lee International Film Studios, which was a disused biscuit factory and off cancel road. The they were shooting mainly in in the sort of makeshift studio about[…]
[…]ERVIEWER: Oh, sorry to hear that. Yes, and then what happened next? CHARLES SMITH: I shot my first film as a cameraman in 1951. That was for the National Coal Board, and it was a film on fires underground and how to fight them. This was made in the wake of a serious disaster which killed a cons[…]
[…]a curious twist in her personality, because being so shy, she adored the bright lights of London and she couldn't wait always going down to the national film theatre Alan Lawson 10:04 absolutely into it loved it it is that's what she was after all she was did have quite […]
