[…] 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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…], putting the microphones away in the sound department and the then chief, Red Turtle and I was there until September 1949 when I had to go and do my National Service which I did in the RAF. I went in for 18 months but then I was home on a 72 hour pass and I had been to see a Chelsea Arsenal e[…]
[…]fluential. We had a cultural invasion of world theatre in the 50’s. Many of which were on television. In 1955 Sunday night at 10 o’clock did Yugoslav National Ballet Company, Antonio and his ballet Espangnol, the Bulgarian state Song and Dance company at the Winter T Garden and the Chinese Theatre c[…]
[…]one year. I've got in those books with all the pictures, I could show you his, his set. And Ridley Scott today is one of, you know, the, the top international film directors. It's surprising, you know, like so many people in Current Affairs and Monitor who, the, the young directors who did[…]
[…]was nothing you just had it or you didn't have it. She persuaded me in the end to go into the airforce instead of chasing after this rainbow was that national service.SPEAKER: M7No you volunteered. No I volunteered in 19 1956 I volunteered.SPEAKER: M3To go into the airforce for a career because my m[…]
[…]t this. I think I was always born to be with pavements. RL: 12:15 I always assume that you, sort of, you'd got, become, involved with National Hunt racing when you lived in Ireland. GM:  12:23 I did, yeah, because my dad used to have a bet. He used to go to the r[…]
[…]he circumstances were so incredibly different in those years, and everything that we have got used to in the last 40 years didn’t exist, there was no National Film School and there was no National Film Theatre, not much writing on films. Certainly the whole business of film criticism which now exist[…]
[…]. JPH: Five guineas or something wasn’t it? DS: A lot of employment to Equity members.JPH: And the Equity strike in ’61, which was over the national deal for the then network as it existed, they all went on strike. We had no actors in anything at all for seven months. It was a very lo[…]
[…]. My first school was a convent school, which was far too Catholic for my Catholic parents. And so they cut me out for that and put me in a non denominational school. And I was nondenominational until I went to, at the behest of the bishop, I think, kill Catholic college, which is one of the big Cat[…]
