[…] was the official and, of course, he was a famous new reader and news commentator, certainly as far as motion pictures were concerned, he did all the newsreels. I was quite honoured to be with him. Lovely chap. (Time 32:38) I didn’t do a thing. I never [unclear]… […]
[…] going to build for you. I'm thinking particularly of a newsreel that I saw. And there's another strand which is […]
[…] had to go and watch a lot of surreptitiously taken newsreels of Paraguay - because you weren't allowed to go […]
[…]n you went to the cinema, what used to come up on the screen? Now, you have some adverts and then there's the film. But then, I understand there were newsreels and other things...Jill Craigie: Newsreels, and then there were terrible American B-pictures, which were frightful, which you had to sit thr[…]
[…] had a lovely time, we went to film all the South American sequence in Lisbon. And we had to go, I had to go and watch a lot of surreptitiously taken newsreels of Paraguay - because you weren't allowed to go there, it was such a dictatorship - and try and match those clothes with the crowd in Lisbon[…]
[…] against the injustice of the Means Test, which includes worker newsreel footage of a hunger march shot by Cooper. Cooper […]
[…]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[…]
[…] was in his mid-nineties and had been an adventurous Pathé Newsreel cameraman. The day after the 1987 hurricane amid the […]
