[…] Life in Her Hands and things like that.Philip Leacock: Oh later were they? Well maybe I got - That was the first time I think. I did a thing for the Post Office somewhere along the line, where we used actors, because I know we had Alfie Bass, who was as inexperienced as I was.Stephen Peet: Would th[…]
[…] that the designer at Ealing Studios was leaving and the post was vacant, and w hy didn't I go down […]
[…] your work?Speaker 2 0:24 Yeah, I was awarded an OBE in the 2005, New Year's Honours List for contribution to the reconstruction of media post war, or post conflict.Speaker 1 0:38 Fantastic. Congratulations. Thank you. So let's go back a bit. And talk about your upbringing, w[…]
[…] bit and did the odd thing, and suddenly I got a call from my agent to say that she had heard that the designer at Ealing Studios was leaving and the post was vacant, and why didn't I go down and try? And I said, "Well I've never...I don't know anything about that!" So she said, "Well look, collect […]
[…]ary movement had died. Essentially it died at the end of the war. We very much admired Humphrey Jennings although we didn't I'm afraid respond to his post-war workreally. We didn’t admire Grierson and interestingly the Grierson people didn’t like us. There was absolutely no encouragement, help from […]
[…]p;not through Francis – persuade people that they would take this over or that over, and so on.Had you at any time been offered a permanent post while you were at the Coal Board?No. Never. I’d in fact once enquired of somebody whether I couldn’t become permanentand being told no, you can’t[…]
[…]me, three years in Iran, Persia, and that was a rather bum job. The oil companies there had been persuaded that they might need some films, and I was posted there as films advisor to the oil companies. Well, they didn't really want any films. They got two perfectly competent Persian film makers, ver[…]
[…] everything came from library. Now you canhave maybe 8, 9, 10 people finally on a film, mainly in the dubbingdepartment preparing tracks. There's all post-synching. Many films areshot with tracks but the tracks are usually unusable and everything isbuilt up again from scratch. The film is virtually […]
