[…]uch welcomed in documentary. Where Of course, they very much agreed with this, this view. And we were always trying to get contemporary composers and writers to collaborate with each other for documentary of all for all those sorts of reasons. So that was one of the the money ethics, part of it was […]
[…]er, my grandfather, my father's father also was particularly a scholar in the work of a Socrates, a deservedly forgotten I think fourth century Greek writer. So my mother, who had tremendous Felicity at school, the house was filled with her prizes. From an early age, she too, was on plastic, so I ha[…]
[…]ts of radio parties with the children. I found myself taking part in them. I came across drama on radio while I was in this job. We had two wonderful writers, Gilbert Dalton and David Scott Daniel. And they wrote the most wonderful radio plays for children. And Peggy Bacon was a great one for drama.[…]
[…]pt. He attached me to Ken Carter. I did the Benny Hill Show and the David Nixon Show and that was quite fun. That brought me into contact with comedy writers and it was a world that I could relate to. It was very spontaneous.Benny had all his material which he got from Bumper fun books, but I think […]
[…]s on the gantry, the camera boys, even the cutting room boys, you know, watch out for this, watch out for that. Luckily that film had fourteen script writers, the script was changed all the time.You haven’t said the name of the film, do you remember it? A Woman Alone it was called.Right. And th[…]
[…]gh a dear old friend of mine, Henry Blyth - who was one of the film critics on the Times, later on - brilliant chap! [NB: could be Henry Blyth, screenwriter, b 1911, who was co-writer of Jackson's Seven Keys in 1961 - is this correct?]John Legard: Henry BlythPat Jackson: Henry Blyth. He got a job at[…]
[…]John, so you will have told you all about St John Lock, yeah, and, and there was also an internal chap, camera man called Ralph Beck. So John was the writer and the when he subsequently directed, of course, and then we the first program of films was sentence of safety, which is about signals, obviou[…]
[…]sure, no trouble." All paid for. So, Elizabeth came along with me for a holiday, and she acted as my lighting girl, my script follower, my dope sheet writer, and everything else.Alan Lawson: [Laughs]David Prosser: And she did work on it, in all fairness. And she came around and we did, I think, ten […]
[…]ght to be a film made on the Banff School of Fine Arts, which was only 80 miles from where I came in Calgary. And so I went up to the little group of writers, there was a group upstairs of writers. The editors were all in their different groups but the writers were all in one quite big group and the[…]
[…]de good directors. On the other hand, they come from various, as I say, some of the best directors probably come from the stage or, you know, from ex writers, you know, nearly is, yes, funny enough, nearly always the ones with a with a story to tell. Funny enough. I mean, who are really imbued with […]
