[…]ean was, but Reed was not. Reed was always...I thought he’d been an editor.No, he'd been an actor, then he was a stage manager and then he was in the production department, and not only ...But he always knew what he was doing.Yes. Right.You know. Very calmly and very quietly and very clearly, and th[…]
[…]e not Gainsborough.Sidney Cole : Halliwell has 'A Girl in a Million' done as later in date, he's got it as 1950.Alan ? : Is going by release dates or production dates?Sidney Cole : Well that's always the problem, you never know because it might be nearly a year before a film is released and all thes[…]
[…] make story pictures and (2) I don't think we had the able people, the able filmmakers that could have really competed on a technical level as far as production was concerned. So as far as distribution was concerned we got hold of the...certainly the Soviet films - October. Of course one of the firs[…]
[…]..Margaret Thomson 38:47 No, I don't know. But I know that one film I made on an agricultural subject, which was something... better milk production, better milk... Clean Milk it was called - that is still extant at the Imperial War Museum. And they have a lot of these films as part of t[…]
[…]ack Clayton directing. That was shot half in America and half in this country. And as one knows, was the Americans considered to be a sort of runaway production, in the sense that here we were making, after all, an American classic, and we were making it Park in Americas too, but with an English dir[…]
[…]orking with him from one film to the next keep a core team?PS. He did to a certain extent. He always had the same first assistant director, the same production manager. He had the key people, always had them, and I think that paid off, because they knew his ideas and worked accordingly to incorpora[…]
[…]io about the film, do you remember?Tom Peacock: Pardon?Roy Fowler: What was the gossip in the studio about I Claudius? Because it was a very troubled production.Tom Peacock: That's right. Well I must admit that I - no I wasn't involved see...Roy Fowler: Okay, right.Tom Peacock: ...I was outside. See[…]
[…]rk Robson on Inn of the Sixth Happiness and The Little Hut; Inn of the Sixth Happiness – Wales doubled for a village in Italy; story about Cecil Ford production manager on Inn of the Sixth Happiness.00:29:52 – 00:31:10FY: But, you know, there are look-throughers and look-throughers, I mean David Lea[…]
[…] the most important one was the shift at the BFI Production Board, where Peter Sainsbury, who had been the editor […]
