[…] 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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Francis, this is our second interview with archivists from the National Film and Television Archive in the UK . The […]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] timp roll, then when she's in position we have The National Anthem and we have fanfare of trumpets on the […]
[…]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[…]
[…], 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[…]
[…]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[…]
