BECTU History Project Interview with Philip Donnellan – documentary, writer, producerInterview Date(s): 28 & 29 June 1991Interview number: 206Interviewer: Colin MoffatSide 1Colin Moffat: The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Philip Donnellan: television doc[…]
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[…]0:01 The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Our subject today is John Ammonds - A M M O N D S. Television producer director, ex-BBC TV, Thames TV, London Weekend Television, now retired. The interviewer record this is John P Hamilton, member of the BECTU H[…]
[…]e is the fourth is the fourth of September 1991. We're at ACTT. And the interview is with a very distinguished, originally lighting cameraman and our producer, director, Ronald Neame. Ronald, let's start at the very beginning, you had a parentage that was very active in the film industry of its time[…]
[…]re assistant, obviously you want to become high on the ladder later.Roy Fowler 33:46 Well, this job satisfaction is always something that producers have exploited. This was one required to give more than properly. One should have done, I suppose, is what I'm trying to ask. In other words[…]
[…]between us. And I found that normally worked. And it’s quite an irony in a way, because at one time, there’s no way you could have been a producer without being a musician. And I think, as well as being the youngest producer at the time I was made a producer, I was the first one th[…]
[…] inside track [inaudible].
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Right. So that, I mis-perceived your entry. It’s... You said Tom White. He was an independent producer at Pinewood wasn’t he?
No, he... Yes, he was I suppose, yes. He was head of production wasn’t he?
Um... Well, production management I w[…]
[…]question. Did you see the rushes separately from the director. Or did you see it in my recollection and it could be wrong. He would see them with the producers the associate producers. I don't believe he saw them with directors because the directors were working he had he had rushes at twe lve o'clo[…]
[…]stry, he was a pilot, a mosquito pilot during the war, and he caught TB, and when he was3rdcured of that he went to Shepperton and became a assistant producer and he worked on Anna Karenina. I remember. I'm trying to think of the films. His first film was Anna Karenina with Kieron Moore and Vivien L[…]
