[…]School as I started to become more involved in the local school Film Society becoming its Treasurer and then playing a major part in creating a new concept in “school film society” by initiating the Edinburgh Schools Film Society. The idea was a simple one born out of the frustration of workin[…]
[…]ere you are, who you are, where you come from, your childhood days, anything about your early life?Margaret Thomson 0:25 Yes, I come from New Zealand. My parents came from New Zealand as well. And my grandparents went out to New Zealand in the very early days of the colonisation of New Z[…]
[…] and they asked me if I’d like to take over actually dishing out the records, so I said, yes please and I learned some of these names by heart and I knew the records numbers Ciraphone-HBC13 would have something like Farid al-Altrash singing ‘Al Rabeih’ which means ‘The Heart’. And by this time[…]
[…]re you were born. SONG When you went we went to school sort of thing. Okay well I came from a farming family and lived in.SPEAKER: M10Sussex. Born in New Haven and my father. Rented a farm at Sheffield Park just north of Lewes and it was a remarkable house. The farmhouse it was 800 years old court w[…]
[…]y Lou and I left Eastern? in an air raid and took the train to Glasgow, and got on a ship called the Cameroonian which was in convoy with evacuees to New York, and took us 10 days to get to New York with outsight of land. It was actually torpedoed and sunk on its return journey.Alan Lawson &nb[…]
[…]across the road at five o'clock on, on Mondays for the meeting the next day for the... And it was an interesting though thing, it was like, we need a new transmitter, or there, we, we had War correspondents and we need another one. And I can remember names like Richard Dimbleby, and Wynford Vaughan […]
[…] an interesting though thing, it was like, we need a new transmitter, or there, we, we had War correspondents and […]
[…]ke, when you were you there for?CF: The training process went on and on. Again, this idea of always training was important that you were learning the new stuff as it came in. Their educational systems, Kodak’s educational systems were fantastic, they were second-to-none in truth. When I look back at[…]
[…]ving the films themselves, so that’s both photochemical and digital. We still do, try to do, mostly photochemical for most projects. So that’s making new pre-print elements, new prints on 16mm or 35mm and then going on to do digital preservation as well, so 2K or 4K scanning, new DCPs and ProRes or […]
[…] DMW: Yes, but today’s documentary makers only look up the dramatic bits. The happy bits are singularly undramatic: happiness does not make good news, tragedy and drama sell.6:42 NS: Only bad news is good news as they say still.6:45 Alan Lawson [AL]: You know what I think a lot of k[…]
