BECTU History Project Interview with Philip Donnellan – documentary, writer, producerInterview Date(s): 28 & 29 June 1991Interview number: 206Interviewer: Colin MoffatSide 1Colin Moffat: The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Philip Donnellan: television doc[…]
[…]rmous supervision, or even longer, because so much was coming in to an editor, it was very rare he’d be doing just one programme, they may be doing a documentary, or someone may say, ‘well look, we’ve got these five shots that we need to put together for Woman’s Hour,’ or something like that a[…]
[…] this led to a better educated and more tolerant society. Documentary directors didn’t just hold up a mirror. Many tried […]
[…] to employ me, and that was my first connection with film. Strand. Film was a marvelous place to start, because there were so many of the old British documentary people there. There was Arthur etton, Frank Sainsbury, Ruby Grayson, John Taylor, Donald Taylor was one of the producers. Shaw Alex Shaw, […]
28 media education journal 55 Sisters of Documentary: The influence of Ruby Grierson and Marion Grierson on documentary in the […]
[…]esperate. And that in those days, there were no film schools that I'm talking about 1953 54 Some of the photographic colleges had previously had some documentary, school, sort of sub schools attached to the photographic department, but they got cameras, growing cobwebs in cupboards. Any grant from t[…]
[…]esperate. And that in those days, there were no film schools that I'm talking about 1953 54 Some of the photographic colleges had previously had some documentary, school, sort of sub schools attached to the photographic department, but they got cameras, growing cobwebs in cupboards. Any grant from t[…]
[…]er is Glyn Jones. The date is the first of May 2002. And this is side one. Have you had an extensive career in the particularly in the sponsored documentary field, we probably will call it. I know in fact that you must have filmed in pretty well every continent in the world, including Antarctic[…]
[…]le one year, I suppose it was ’71, maybe it had been ’72, and there was an hour’s gap and the programme that was needed, unquestionably, was a nature documentary, a documentary about…natural history documentary. And I knew the chap who could do it better than anybody else, and that was David.&[…]
[…]bsp;only two, I did write produce anddirect what we would call drama-docs now. drama documentary. One was called theSuffragette, guess what that was about.. And one was called[…]
