[…]always wanted to go into the entertainment industry, I actually wanted to act, and that was my ambition.Were you in any sort of school plays or drama productions?They didn’t do very much and of course I was at school during the war, there really wasn’t a tremendous amount of you know activity on the[…]
[…] ran into Donald Alexander, just by accident, and he suggested I should go and see Paul Ruther again, who had, by then, got his own firm, Paul Ruther productions. And. And Paul was quite glad to see me, because most people had joined up, and there was a shortage of people about who had some film exp[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]fferent in those days, it wasn't, sort of, fighting for your job or anything. If your face fitted, everybody was nice to you. So they put me into the production office, with the production manager who was doing Alex's set of short films. There was Lobsters... (what was it?) The Gannets...Sidney Cole[…]
[…] in fact has, came up through Granada as, you know, production manager sort of and she really knows her onions. Yes. […]
[…]end of six months it was sink or swim. You either left or they extended the contract and, you know, I was quite lucky because I'd done quite a lot of Production of bits and pieces. I'd organised a festival in Edinburgh and all the rest of it so, I mean, I had that kind of skill in my background and […]
[…]vidual award. They're always teams.Unknown Speaker 1:11 So yeah, in theory, I've got a BAFTA, but I don't physically have it. It's in the production office of spring watch. Okay. Yeah, I know that feeling is.Unknown Speaker 1:19 So just going right back to the beginning. Did […]
[…]y warning about climate change – this is all in the seventies – but he hadn’t worked on The World at War, which was the Thames Documentary Department production in the early seventies, and he’d always, he’d quite fancied the idea of looking at a historical subject, making a film on a historical subj[…]
[…]ur, what PA meant in those days and your association with Jim?Well, PA in, in those days in fact was somebody who helped the director. There was a, a production assistant that it’s called now, who in fact who typed the camera script and did all the sort of paperwork attached to, to doing a show. In […]
[…]th. But we were in the studio by and large and over on East 52nd Street by the river, which was the warehouse where the sets were made and stored and production meetings and things were held. So we were kind of a family a first names gang as I said before and not as disciplined as we might have been[…]
