[…]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[…]
[…]said Time went anyway, in fact it was all right. It had a bit of a dent in it which I hammered out with a brick that went on to be used for many more productions. Jim Betteridge 12:26 What were you recording to Were you always recording money or Graham Hartstone […]
[…]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[…]
[…]e top of that command to do and I said,Unknown Speaker 32:10 Well, I think it worked with work with a complicated business, isn't it film production? You've got you've got the story, then you've got the script. The script is analysed and there's an elaborate federal policeman in every de[…]
[…]ng, and decided that would be the kind of thing I'd like to do. My parents had a very good friend who was, in fact, he was the top executive of Ranks production, and said he would sort of start me in the film industry. That was awesome. John was awesome, John. Yeah. Which, in fact, my parents though[…]
[…]a, it wouldn't be a bad idea, it wouldn't be a bad idea if I kind of got another string to my bow and learned a bit about that, and maybe do a bit of production or whatever.Because don't forget, nobody quite knew where it was goingin those days. I mean second guessing it now is quite easybut there w[…]
[…]ng like 1,500 films, commercial films, TV commercials and as I told the audience the other day in Zagreb, (you must have been there?), that after the production of 300 TV commercials one is ripe for the asylum! And I was there under false pretences. Just like now the only excuse for making TV commer[…]
[…]ink, drop a beer, but he always said to me that while there as I say, was our recent makeup man. But he always told me that he was working on a production. He would not touch any drink at all, because he thought it was unfair to the artist to make up the faces or any other things you have to d[…]
