[…]e (laughter) and knows how, kind of obstreperous I was during that period. But I learned a lot. So I was taken on to direct something called Northern Newsreel. And the idea was, it was soon after the miners' strike. And they'd had these miners' tapes that had circulated and they were talking the day[…]
[…]ly Labour Party, but I was attracted to what I was hearing from people like Paul Foot and International Socialists at the time. Er, and I was reading newspapers but not with great depth, just enjoying myself being an eighteen year old. [06:43] And then I got ill with glandular fever. Becau[…]
[…]opportunities. Yes. And learning to handle film and. And we also I seem to remember we used to go into the small theatre every week to see the latest newsreels. Catch up on all the latest stuff.SPEAKER: M9Well I mean the German newsreel had the German newsreels which came to the Lisbon embassy which[…]
[…]just the two of us started selling ORWO Films. It was quite a good film, and we did get one big order from Technicolor - because they were processing Pathe News at the time and they wanted two-hundred copies of every newsreel every week, and we supplied them - and that kept us going! Unfortunately, […]
[…]p;24:21 Yes. No, I mean, you came you came back in into your own and and having been on the acting side of the business, I was probably more sympathetic to the artists than maybe other floor managers might have been because I'd actually been in. I'd been in their shoes so IJohn P Hamilton &nbs[…]
[…] managed to get it It looked like fog of course. I mean the grain was enormous. But they did put it on on the Monday as a scoop for British movietone News.And they never you never did. nobody had never done that.Nobody's ever done it before.And then I worked on the 16 millimetre side with Agfa doing[…]
[…]'t really know. I mean, you can't evaluate it. I'm going to look when I see my films on video on tiny screen the video, they will record the sorts of pathetic review sort of half hearted you know, but we've got some brands I think about the other offer sort of pompous overbearing films that were mad[…]
