[…]le new way of thinking about things, and began a new career for Bill because he started to make his own documentaries. He started his own independent documentary film company.[84] So that branched him off quite a lot.JR: The Lions Are Free, was it?VM: That was his first one, The Lions Are Free (1969[…]
[…] my first film when Donald went off to Russia. It was just after Kruschev's speech denouncing Stalin. He came back, said he'd made contact with their documentary studio in Kiev, and a young Russian director was very keen to come over and work with the Coal Board. Would I like to go to Kiev? New adve[…]
[…] I think I agree with. I won’t argue with. So that brought about a major change.NS: What happened next then?MD: Well I moved into what you might call documentary.NS: Still the Music Department?MD: Yes. The Department of course had several changes of name. In 1964, it was Music and Documentaries and […]
[…]iful layette would arrive, you know. Generally, a diplomat brought it over. It had an incredible hold on the public that did. But then I did a lot of documentary, and a lot of poetry readings. I did a lot of work with Douglas Cleverdon on what would now be radio three, I forget what it was cal[…]
[…]’s the films of the time, Alan will remember this, they we're also a bit tearful. And they were shown during the war.6:27 DMW: Yes, but today’s documentary makers only look up the dramatic bits. The happy bits are singularly undramatic: happiness does not make good news, tragedy and drama sell[…]
[…]p;Production Fund andTony Richardson and I submitted a script for a half-hour 16 mm documentary . And we got an advance of £300 and we made a film called “Momma Don't Allow” which was a film about -Norman Swal[…]
[…]bsp;I went across to feature films and I also took the old shot shorts and documentary branch or under my wing as well. So I had the two eye features […]
[…]ho did more or less the same thing in Rhodesia. And it was Jack Holmes, who, I don't know where he worked but he was a very significant figure in the documentary field later on. Prior to the time I went there, and I went there in 1936. Gloria Sachs 11:16 How old would you have been […]
[…] William Hunter at Dartington College in Devon, before going into documentary production. She worked for Paul Rotha for a brief […]
