[…]be a performer.DARROL BLAKE: You started very young ... How did you come to be in thefilm business? From the CV I see that you were a sort of trainee production secretary to begin with.RENÉE GLYNNE: I was something even before that.DARROL BLAKE: Ahh. What was that?RENÉE GLYNNE: We have to know it wa[…]
[…]some need for a kind of group to look at the various professional problems so ASLIB started this, [TIME 22:29] I think it was called, the Film Productions Librarians’ Group. It was a bit strange. So, I became involved with that and they had meetings, etc. and one of the people who[…]
[…]Michael Peacock, John Cleese, Roy Godfrey. We made it look like enormous pool of talent – actually these were all the films I could find. Independent production sector didn’t really exist, kept at arms length by BBC & IBA. But it made an impact on Leon, who persuaded Whitelaw to move off ITV2. W[…]
[…] variety show a kind of compilation of. Royal and something don't forget used to. It's nice work for. He bought Everybody a present at the end of the production you know that who me as in some ways it was................... the thing about filmresearch and the change in the mix is the ages and I saw[…]
[…]stivals. Lots of work around. So, mm.And what about... That was taking stills for, for kind of, display, programmes and all those things[??]?Yes. Yah.Production stills.Mm. Mm. And then they used to, they used to give me my own rehearsal, you know, the lighting was done, then I could just... So I sup[…]
[…] I hardly remember that one now. [laughter]But again, apart from that you were still contemporary designing weren’t you?Yes, yes I was.No big costume productions?Yes, no big costumes, no. And the first one I did on my own, eventually, I don’t knowhow I got it because after all, not many people knew […]
[…]rompter, all the teleprompting, and move on to being a writer, albeit of advertising magazines. But again, you did those at home, you went up for the production. They were terribly simple things to do. And it gave you free time to write other other things. And eventually, again, it was a sort of ano[…]
[…]ed very much Jewel in the Crown, now that I adored, that to me is art, so you have moments, but because of the demand it 's like Macdonald, it's mass production.AL: You've had Dick Lester here quite a lot. He did a lot of his early stuff here.GC: First of all he started with the Beatles, and that wa[…]
[…]urnpenny came back, after a couple of days it so happened I'd got my holidays fixed, I went on holiday. And when I came back I found they'd taken the production... I thought had finished but I learned afterwards they'd taken it away. Well, in those days the director cut his picture. He always had a […]
