[…]rk on some of the really top movies made in this country. That's how his reputation sort of grew round him, and in fact if you see his films today on television they aren't brilliantly lit compared with some of the others. He was very good, but working on the top-notch movies made here-he got the re[…]
[…]nd. I was given the option to tell you taking a retirement or going anywhere else in the BBC that I wanted and in fact I had been wanting to get into television for a long time because I was very interested in photography. But I wasn't allowed to transfer because they took the view that. If they cha[…]
This transcription was provided in 2015 by the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell (Principal Investigator, Leeds University) and Dr Vicky Ball (Co-Investigator, De Montfort University).BECTU History Project Interview no: N/K Inter[…]
[…], what I hated was what I called piebald productions.Oh.Which was where you had…Yes.Video tape interiors.Yes, indeed.And 16mm exteriors.That’s awful, royal telly silly. [Laughter]Yes. And I, for about ten years I managed to persuade my employers, whichever producer it was...Oh yes.The BBC or Thames […]
[…]his time. My brother was 8 years older than myself and my sister 5 years older, and another sister younger. So I went to a day school in Belfast, The Royal Belfast Academical Institution, Commonly known as Inst, which was an excellent School. And we had a very happy childhood.The first indications o[…]
[…]ill in Korea, so you were operating between those two.Freddie Francis: Yes, after Mickey, various things I did, I did the film which finished off the Royal Command Performance, we made a film called Beau Brummell. In those days it used to be the Royal Command Performance, it isn't any longer, I thin[…]
[…] premiere for the picture. In fact, we had a we had a an end of shooting party that was better than most premiere I've ever been to. He took the cafe royal and the whole crew, we had a fantastic party there will with as non an enormous cake. Which he paraded around the dance floor in front of us all[…]
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[…]y enough to get down to so we didn't have any traveling expenses. A lot of the rehearsals were done on the premises of our offices, which was the old Royal Air Force building in Kingsway. And I remember we often had to stop talking on the telephone as they pitched the eighth floor down a chute. You […]
