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[…] books, in which he was beginning his notes on the script of 'Night Mail.' And I read some of it, […]
[…] books, in which he was beginning his notes on the script of 'Night Mail.' And I read some of it, […]
[…]e where they said les anglais, l'arnour, les anglais, and they never released it. Norman Swallow: And Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall wrote the script. You've worked with them. John Schlesinger: Yes, this was the first time. And funnily enough I had been ask to read and possibly direct Bi[…]
[…] good at writing something in about two weeks: a complete script, including the story, in about two weeks, for which […]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 250 [Copyright BECTU ] Transcription Date: 1999-01-30Interview Date: 1992-03-03 Interviewer: Arnold SchwartzmanInterviewee: Charles Bennett Also present was Charles Bennett's business partner Stuart Birnbaum. Tape 1, Side 1Arnold Sc[…]
[…] but I got, I got firsts in both years of secretarial because I could do the shorthand you see. So that was very lucky when I, I came to work for the scripts chap which we’ll come to later on.And how long did you stay in Belfast then?Mm, working in Belfast?Yes.Well, I had from, I went to work when I[…]
[…]tter backfrom Stella Jonkia [ph 04:36] saying I'm very sorry we, we, you know, have no vacancy for a trainee continuity, but we have a vacancy in the Script Department, andif you’d care to come along and see us. So after six months at Paramount in WardourStreet I went to Ealing in February 1942 and […]
[…]nary mixture of talent and. And sort of a Boy Scout really key. On the artistic side he had no equal in ease his concept of movies is he writing this script writing is his colour concepts is his camera concepts quite superb and on the other side of the coin there was this Boy Scout he loved to play […]
[…] yes. At every stage there’s a back up. There’s a script editor, there’s a director, there’s a producer. Yes. You […]
