[…]t which was near market harbour. An absolutely ideal spot totally isolated from the rest of the world on a hill. Surrounded by the most beautiful countryside etc. etc. It was an idyllic place to be a lot of people hated it because the headmaster was a despot and something of a bully and my brother w[…]
[…]ing a perfect exposure. And probably that’s why the early Cinéma vérité films were all shot, if they were lit at all, were shot with bounced light to try and get an even exposure so the reversal film could deal with that problem. Of course it changed when they got negative.PF: So you’ve mentioned be[…]
[…]eraman and our producer, director, Ronald Neame. Ronald, let's start at the very beginning, you had a parentage that was very active in the film industry of its time. Ronald Neame  0:35  Yes, Roy Fowler  0:36  Elwin Neame your father and your mother […]
[…]any of that. So it's irrelevant what anybody else, and I think that I if you like I inherited that type of feeling. So I was always lucky in the industry that there were no built in prejudices against me based on my father's success at allJohn Taylor: How many were in the bandBill Cotton Jr: He had […]
[…]old Kentish family and they'd made their living out of being hop factors you see, all around Kent and Herefordshire, where it was a very booming industry - that doesn't exist any more. And so, sort of, prep schools - but then one was promptly shoved out to Switzerland with my parents. Because my mot[…]
[…]n London town and the sound of bow bells. So not quite a Cockney, but can you tell me a bit about your family and how you came to be in the film industry?Right. My family consisted of a father who was in the engineering business, who would started making his own films and when he was young man just […]
[…]p;to to sell newsreels to some of us individually in different parts of the country uh that might well have been. It was a kind of an administrative capacity&nb[…]
[…]n or six months, perhaps not quite sure. Anyways, that was and you know, that's how that sort of thing. And Father, I don't know, he, sort of gave up trying to get me into dentistry. Anyway.Roy Fowler  6:15  At school, what were your favorite subjects? Did they tend toward? Again, anything[…]
[…]film which I used to wind up and down all the time and I was very interested in films but never went to films because really in the depths of the country maybe went once or twice a year. Some films something to do with farming. Nothing really exciting.SPEAKER: M5Can you remember look at the first fi[…]
[…]7. And, but from Kent I moved over for a short to King’s Lynn in Norfolk because my father was in banking, and then eventually I went to the West Country, to Ross-on-Wye, when I was about six I suppose, I think, or there around. And so I spent all my schooling in Ross, and that was, of course, then […]
