[…]of job I wanted could have been offered at one time by the Navy, and I seriously thought of it for a while, because I wanted to be able to travel the world at somebody else's expense, to get experience, without having to pay for it, in that sense. Ah, then I realised that the Navy was just a bit too[…]
[…]rse I wasn't going to argue at that stage.Alan Lawson : Oh no. No, no.Gordon McCallum : And when that was done, we worked with Thorold on 'Men of Two Worlds', we dubbed that. And I think the next one must have been - was probably Mickey. I don't know, I can't remember now exactly, but Mickey came in[…]
[…]mes. What exactly were quota films?DB: There was a law brought in that British cinemas, American films, ofcourse, were flooding the market. The First World War had seen to that.British production and European production had dropped considerably andthey had during the First World War picked up market[…]
[…]erything in connection with the early days of the TV service was new. I mean, and furthermore this country was streets ahead of everybody else in the world. Streets ahead of America.Alan Lawson 14:27 Now er finally perhaps if you had a chance to start all over again would you change […]
[…] on theatre production. He was the original director of the world's longest -running production The Mousetrap , still playing at […]
[…] quality. This is now an industry standard which is followed world wide. So going back to digital I think it will […]
[…]nal Film and Television school at the moment. And those students, their first year students now but in a year's time, there'll be out in the big wide world. And a lot of there will be going out as cinematographers really was. They they don't take the traditional route, although some of them have bee[…]
[…]fered written the screenplay for it. I remember Houston off looking very, you know, he's hardly the smartest soldier soldier looking character in the world with a sort of pop baleen is battledress a bit arrived on the set every day. Sorry, touched your microphone. Now. Oliver Twist we got to Oliver […]
[…]te an interesting contrast just to dwell on for a moment. Left to themselves or without kind of political interventions most other film unions in the world have developed a guild structure because the only allegiance people feel, really feel, yes? is to the people who do the same jobs as them, so ma[…]
[…] He ran the pub for my grandfather in the East End so I didn’t see a lot of him but he had a rather tragic life in as much as that in the First World War in the Battle of the Somme he got gassed and I can see him now, I can hear him more coughing his guts out. It was terrible and I was a[…]
