[…] people, we did a little bit of research, and the next thing we knew was we had a film set up, you know, I think the weekend so the ski mania was the documentary about the daily mouse ski show at Olympia, and we did try and sell it, but unfortunately, we were never very good at selling his film, so […]
[…]exhibitions. But he hadn't done anything really very structured.Alan Lawson 3:45 Anyway, sorry. To go back to chronology you will know in documentary department,Unknown Speaker 3:50 yeah, in back in documentaries, because the the Open University started in at the end of 69. A[…]
[…]e end! Another time I had a sort of madman, a mad director came over from Berlin, he was from West Berlin, but I was working for them. I was making a documentary called British Habits and Customs, you know wedding customs and queuing at bus stops and Chelsea Pensioners. But when he came over, the fi[…]
[…]bit of photography. I learnt photography as a way of learning something about the background of the industry. Eventually. Having worked in very small documentary units I managed to get into shell. Basically because I had had this good degree. And managed to sue funnily enough through the BFI. Is thi[…]
Alan Lawson 0:00 the copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Pieter de Normanville, documentary film director, interviewer, is John Taylor, recorded on the 28th of February 1991. With interjections from his wife, Sarah Erulkar side one.John Taylor 1:11 &n[…]
[…] for them. Industrial films you could get trade union sponsorship. Spanish films - and the progressive film-makers were most of them enthusiastic for documentary film - they knew that they could give an authenticity, and it would commend itself to the public, so far as scenes were not staged. So the[…]
[…]Lawson: And...a name I'd completely forgotten about. Um...tell us about Pat.David Prosser: Well Pat had been an assistant...Oh God...who was the lead documentary man in those days?Alan Lawson: Grierson?David Prosser: No, no...not Grierson]. After Grierson...Alan Lawson: Um...David Prosser: Paul Roth[…]
[…] Lord and Russell Lord wrote the text for the film The Land and I said I admired Flaherty, actually I idolised the man, I thought he was the greatest documentary filmmaker in the world. So she said to me and this is a thing I tell all my students, she said why don't you go and see him. And he' s wor[…]
[…]ood.Roy Fowler: Who was directing.Peter Tanner: John Paddy Carstairs was one and later Carol Reed, Henry Cass and a number of distinguished documentary directors of the time. I've always been very friendly with the documentary crowd, I've a lot of time for. They used to come in a picture a[…]
[…] extreme of artists’ films, artisanal film, right the way through documentary, workshops, Lucia Films, and right the way through to […]
