[…]sp; 32:49 live, but our little films on it, which and we had very, very little tiny budgets, so a lot of it will be in the rolls from news and so on. So lots of begging and borrowing a bit like when community programme started much later on the same sort of thing. But no, we did. We […]
[…]le like Jack Holmes and Stanley Hawes and so on were all potential documentary people. And, and strangely enough, where I lived in Ladbroke Grove, my newsagent had a new magazine on film, British films. And so I bought it, I bought Volume two, Number two. And this was World Film News. Gloria Sa[…]
[…]far as I can remember, this is what, twelve years ago now, at that time we had about 40 static camera crews, which is bigger than MGM or Paramount or Universal in their heyday, either before or immediately after the war. It was a fantastic number of people that we had down in the film department in […]
[…] Diverse. So it wasn’t about, we didn’t want people presenting news their not, the y shouldn’t be there really, it’s […]
[…] now, but = had battles with people like MGM and Universal when = had to accuse them of cultural vandalism […]
[…] Processed them at Technicolor there. I spent the day at Universal while they were being processed, and had a great […]
[…]s your unique selling point as opposed to say…PC: Well both Kays and Rank had large chunks of BBC work, so we were kind of serving them, so all their news gathering and comedy. We tended to do the local news, comedy, documentaries and Rank did the dramas. So, you could say we were the quick turnarou[…]
[…]ut there. And we had to find our own subjects. And I came across the border film, by reading about in an justUnknown Speaker 13:42 weekly newspaper, think about this young director called Edie maternal who had made a film about border without border, because this border was absolutely in[…]
[…]ian Victory detour were the IWM collections of Second World War Ministry of Information films and after that I catalogued a series of German language newsreels called Welt Im film which were put out by the British and American occupation authorities in occupied Germany after The Second World War. Qu[…]
[…]ces like that. Shot on a ranch, as well as the drilling rig. Took the rashes on to Hollywood. Processed them at Technicolor there. I spent the day at Universal while they were being processed, and had a great time. Feted. Met Telly Savalas and Paul Newman. Dropped the shots into the film. Took a sla[…]
