[…]tunity or luck. So really knowing nothing I said alright.So I went up to Wakefield. I met Dermod and visited the works and I found I had taken on the production of a film. Interestingly I think that the Sutcliffes had approached at least a couple of documentary companies, Film Centre and that kind o[…]
[…] So within a very short time not only was I assisting on Animal, Vegetable and Mineral and doing all those bits but was standing by for my own little productions.And I think my first appearance on the screen was George Nordoff, this great scientific boffin who understood about everything and was Dut[…]
[…]e a generator. No earthly possibility of getting a full-sized generator there, so knowing I was fairly mechanical, I said to Dora Wright, who was the production manager, I said, "Look, I'll find you a generator," which I did. I found a ten horsepower Ford with a generator attached to it, it hadn't b[…]
[…]assette recording.Tape 1 Side A.The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Side One. So, Elaine Schreyeck, Continuity and Production Secretary, you have it.Oh good.Alright. Now, you've read the thing, so we start off with the, you know, conventional background sort of thi[…]
[…] was a stage manager and then he was in the production department, and not only ... But he always knew […]
[…] the works and I found I had taken on the production of a film. Interestingly I think that the Sutcliffes […]
[…] assistant cameraman, recordist, myself, the director, and a sort of production assistant, that's six but five without me. Alan Lawson: With […]
[…] is credited with developing the ‘story documentary’. His most celebrated production in this period was Western Approaches (1944), shot at […]
[…] is credited with developing the ‘story documentary’. His most celebrated production in this period was Western Approaches (1944), shot at […]
