[…]e deck and part of it takes place below deck, and so we built that ourselves. And I always remember, because I went to see it about a year ago at The National, and it was nowhere near as effective as Peter's production in this little theatre. Because he had below, he had just a board (like that) and[…]
[…]f.Jimmy Gilbert: It was all with this thought, I think a lot of Scots people, I've noticed it since, Bill Bryden who runs one of the directors at the National theatre, he's head of BBC Scotland now and he's a playwright and he's just obsessed with films. He was telling me coming from Paisley, his fr[…]
[…] UK’s oldest Film Societies from their base at Film House in Randolph Crescent. This building also served as the HQ base for the Edinburgh International Film Festival and Films of Scotland which acted as a sort of national liaison contact for film companies planning shoots involving Scottish l[…]
[…]rn a little bit about real things about elephants. It was a funny film, too. However, when we got there, we were going to work in a park called Tsavo National Park,[96] which is where two remarkable people lived called Daphne and David Sheldrick.[97] David had already started, and she looked after o[…]
[…] DSMW: Well although we didn’t call our first interview the first one, with David Francis, this is our second interview with archivists from the National Film and Television Archive in the UK.The copyright in this recording is vested in the British Entertainment History Project and the name of […]
[…] Command the trumpeters come onto the stage apron to - on top of the closing captions - and the stage apron comes up with the organ, and it plays the national anthem. Well first of all there's the heralds, and then the national anthem. And the arrangement was you closed the screen tabs and then foll[…]
[…]cognize it as a factor in my mental makeup that I'm not particularly coherent in my in my range of attitudes about crucial things – war, peace, love, nationalism and so on you know.Colin Moffat: Of course I heard you mention it but because of your very much later large film about the army, the thesi[…]
[…]o the wedding. Eventually over the years they relented. But yes, so we got married in 1970. DB: Now, what is looming up is your first job at The National. GG: Ah. DB: We’ll need now to spend quite some time on ‘The National”GG: Well The National. DB: The newspaper play, wasn’t it[…]
