[…] state performance for President Lebrun (the French President). I think the performance we did on television, the Sleeping princess was preceded by a newsreel of the State visit.One of the tiresome things about performing for BBC TV independently and performing for BBC TV as a member of Vic Wells ca[…]
[…] was a man called Mathew Anallgate(?) - he was a great fastidious dilettante who left actually quite soon afterwards because I think he went to radio newsreel - and, of course, I discovered, it turned out because of Korda and that sort of thing that he had been a film critic ...John Legard: Was[…]
[…]xcept of course there wasn't any news on television, one has to add, there wasn't any news on television at that time, because all there was a weekly newsreel which was compiled largely from the commercial news in the cinema.Norman Swallow: Movietone etcDavid Attenborough: It was regarded that if yo[…]
[…]to make feature films, but we were making documentaries you know, showing what was happening. It was completely opposite and different to the sort of newsreels, as you know that you would see in the cinema, the Pathe newsreels. And they really dealt with life and conditions. I remember for example g[…]
[…]tayed there as General Manager, under the Managing Director.
Sidney Cole: Yes. That was - because Pathe made films didn't they as well as having a newsreel. Were you connected with the newsreel at all?
William Fielder: No, they used to distribute the films made by the corporation - the Associa[…]
