[…]meline of career stuff again. For me, there was a different, within STV there was a schism. There were the people that did video, that is, studio and outside broadcast and there was that film lot and the film lot, for some reason, always seemed to get all the good jobs! They always seemed to be goin[…]
[…]:02 got a job ultimately at the human loss side probation service. Out on the patch, which was a little bit it was one of the worst crime rates outside of London. But would you believe next door to where I work, the Halle orchestra used to practice so quite often I would end up having lunches […]
[…]through Cambridge, aB.A. at Cambridge without ever passing a single exam. What a lesson to them all.Taylor/Peet: How conscious were you of' the world outside Cambridge?Denis Forman: I was conscious, much more than most of them. I was conscious of world politicsin the sense of Central European politi[…]
[…] them all. Taylor/Peet: How conscious were you of' the world outside Cambridge? Denis Forman: I was conscious, much more than […]
[…]h slotted in to when we – I think it slotted into when we got money from the National Heritage fund. That was the first time that an arts institution outside the BFI had funded film restoration, thanks to David. David persuaded them to give us money, quite substantial money at the time, something li[…]
[…]round the heart or something but one of the flunkies dashed out to get an ambulance and as he dashed out the MGM Symphony Orchestra which was waiting outside thought this was the scene [LAUGHTER] for them to strike up for 'He's a Jolly Good Fellow' [LAUGHTER] And this macarbre scene took place with […]
[…] fund. That was the first time that an arts institution outside the BF= had funded film restoration, thanks to Dav […]
[…]ame Wendell Willkie. You know it could have happened to Robert Donat and I’d have remembered because it was Robert Donat. I can see him now, bragging outside the pub [Does American drawl] “Your ‘re all wonderful people” as the English always are to American people, “Gahd you’re a wonderful people”. […]
[…]ing along in this rather erratic fashion and going into the port of Tangiers, I suppose it was - limping in there - and we filmed him by staying just outside the territorial limits. I think I was able to use up to a three or four inch lens. I filmed him going into port and actually going in between […]
[…]sed to go over there in my holiday, weather permitting. I'd ride my bicycle over there, about seven miles, and I just used to wait and station myself outside the studio and look at it, there was nothing to see except buildings. But I could hear the gas engine going and the gas engine gave me a certa[…]
