BECTU History Project Interview No 526.Mel Faber.Feature films: advertising and distribution.Interviewed by Brian Taylor and John Legard. 30.09.2003.Transcription by Allen Eyles, September 2007.INTERVIEW WITH MEL FABER FOR BECTU HISTORY PROJECTMF: I'm a Liverpudlian as you may gather from a problem […]
[…] her, I can't suddenly take her. If the fellow says, it's very nice back view. It's very good examples. Typical thing that would happen if it were an advertising thing, somebody would save that picture. Look, it's wonderful back view. And I hate tricks, and I say, but it's a gimmick back view, and I[…]
[…]ame time, of course, there was major changes happening within the ITV Network because of Mrs Thatcher. Her ear was being bent by the Saatchis and the advertising people and all the rest of it who were saying look, basically ITV is a monopoly. We actually don't know from one month to the next what wi[…]
[…]s Press. My brother Harris, the family name is Kamlish actually.Oh.K-a-m-l-i-s-h.Y es.And we, I had a brother Harris Kamlish who was director of advertising for Odham’s.Oh yes.And one was in the editorial. They all had very big jobs in that.Y es.They were very bright lads, but all of them IP, I[…]
[…]ng, so I wanted to get out I had offers from people which werefinancially very tempting and I was foolish enough to follow up on one of those with an advertisingfirm who wanted me to run a company which would make both documentary films andcommercials for Independent Television when it started and t[…]
[…] enough to follow up on one of those with an advertising firm who wanted me to run a company which […]
[…]you were doing and how it came to you. Right. Dean, and then maybe how that evolved? Yes,Speaker 2 6:51 well, the work obviously, was all advertising. Cinema, at the cinema. It was the early days. That's right. That was the early days of television, because I can remember us doing all of[…]
[…]ell. Obviously, a company was sponsoring these films and therefore could have said, we want to see Shell everywhere, Shell logos everywhere and Shell advertising. But they didn't use them in that way. Was that an outcome of policy decisions by yourself and .... (TOGETHER) ... by the company itself? […]
[…]e London front for André Sarrut in Paris, and they, because when commercials started there were only two firms in England who had any experience with advertising films, and that was Pearl and Dean and Rank Screen Services, both of which were extremely, you know, mundane - factories, as we kindly cal[…]
