[…]es were just, the rushes were just awful, you know, because Noel Langley had never directed before, he had all this big cast of people. It was a good script, Pickwick. And, he was, you know, doing these tight ten shots and things like that, and you know, panning and scanning all over the place, and,[…]
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[…] They now blossomed into producing this stuff. They had a script editor who I think was Canadian, Harry Junkin, and he […]
BEHP 0048 Val Guest Transcript.Tape 1 of 8Please note that the use of the Val Guest tapes is restricted and the copyright remains with Val Guest and his estate. Interview with Val Guest, writer, producer, director, at his house…on 17th August 1988.[NB This transcript, whilst ‘complete’ include[…]
[…]the BBC only had one station, of course, one transmitter, Crystal Palace. Ted Halliday was [unclear 0:08:45]. Roy Cole, actually, was the scriptwriter at that time, and Roy was on holiday, and I took Roy’s place. Dick Cawston was there by that time already. Chris [s.l. Corke […]
[…]Rather open air?Philip Donnellan: Yes very open air.Colin Moffat: Mildly progressive.Philip Donnellan: Yeah exactly. That's a very reasonable description mildly progressive. Well I took a scholarship to go to Bryanston in 1936 and didn't get it. So I didn't go to Bryanston, I went to the cheap[…]
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[…]And Jimmy said if you want to see how we rehearse compared to how you rehearse up at the posh theatre you can come along. So I went along expecting a script and all the rest of it, and instead of that they all met round a skip on the stage and old Jack Short, he only had one leg and played the squee[…]
[…]t look right, come we got a shot, reveal a bit more of a genre away in there or something like that. And he had his director there Ken Anakin and his script writer, and it was all very amicable. And he knew exactly what he wanted to see he knew exactly the way it should be. And he sat through […]
