[…]in. [LAUGHTER] And I won money on the race. But the trouble was the manager of the theatre, Frank Boare, quite a character in the theatre world in those days, he heard about it and he said, “Now then, you either stop this or get out”. So I stopped it. [LAUGHTER]ALAN LAWSON: […]
[…]vember 1960 Nick Gilbey 1:45 just before that. Then, was there anybody in the family who gone into television or entertain world? No, Elizabeth Bale 1:56 but my father always loved musicals, and as soon as he could get a radiogram, he would alway[…]
[…]eah, the clientele of Cosmo to Don's and lectures from the university students. They came to see Antonioni genre go down, and films from all over the world, but they were quality films. So there was some Hollywood stuff, but it was usually something thoughtful and would keep your brain going. And th[…]
[…]s. Then we had the idea to make a film in black-and-white on 16mm about Padre Borelli in Naples and Borelli had started an orphanage after the Second World War for kids who had lost their parents and we made that film. And then we made the second March to Aldermaston film about nuclear disarmament m[…]
[…]not saying that figured largely in Management considerations for doing it but it was more a question of winning brownie points, I think, in the wider world. But, at the same time also, I think it should be said again, particularly with the religious slots, it provided some kind of comfort zone for a[…]
[…]o it's in your interest to actually get that person to be good because it reflects on the Sound Recordist. You can be the best Sound Recordist in the world but if the Boom Operator is not getting anywhere close to where it wants to be then you're not going to go. You won't survive. So, I was learnin[…]
[…]ment and the planet as a whole, between the environment and the way of life and the economy of countries, particularly in a deprived situation, Third World countries, that were threatened by, by famine, were threatened by drought, threatened by disease, and by pests.All these things were examined in[…]
[…]test and all that because he wasn’t convinced. Then eventually he was and she was, she was cast.Right. Mm, and then, then you went off in to the wide world?Yes.I..E, London Weekend?Yes, [Laughter] yes.[Laughter]Which was very strange compared to The BBC.Mm, can you pinpoint any differences? I mean..[…]
[…]ind. And sometimes I think we've I had a famous row with at the very end of Monitor because Huw put on film that Ken Russell had done about the Dotty world of Mr. Lloyd who was an amateur painter, and commercially a very great success. And I thought I should put on the film I've done on Joe Tilson, […]
