[…] the camera department G-B Instructional working with Lewis Gilbert on documentary shorts such as Sailors Do Care (1944). When he […]
[…] later Carol Reed, Henry Cass and a number of distinguished documentary directors of the time. I've always been very friendly […]
[…]I'd say that I'd like kid to say take over. And within a year, I was promoted to camera. And I worked quite well on that at the very first film was a documentary about Chinese community in London. That's when there were very few Chinese restaurants around very few. And things like that. Gradually we[…]
[…]er big user of film was Film Strip Services who were doing film strips on Eastmancolor. The smaller labs tended to concentrate mainly on 16mm and the documentary side of things. You did get the occasional feature release, small runs at places like Colour Film Services, but it didn’t happen very ofte[…]
[…]we were working for, we were altogether, you know, although when, you know, when I was working on projects I was, you know, on a film or a Drama or a Documentary, I was doing stuff that I was being paid to do. I was being paid to do work that I would have undertaken to do for free because I was real[…]
[…]and it became clear after a few weeks that the best thing to do was to make documentaries if you could because that gave you a project and there were documentary slots that we made. Half-hour things that you could do and so on and the first time I got a sense of that being good fun was actually some[…]
[…]self out of work as a director actually and went back to editing. I should explain that I had become an editor, not on feature films, on doing little documentary thingsand commercials. And I started off by doing through Antony Balch actually doing censor cuts for distributors in Wardour Street, you […]
[…]n’t take it on. I did three episodes, two as producer, one on The Bomb as writer and producer. It was improbable that Thames commissioned it: 26-part documentary series, costing £1 million, but Brian Tesler signed on for it, persuaded ITV Network to show it. Jeremy was an outstanding producer, willi[…]
[…] out to be a painter, decided it was war - I had to do something rather than more useful, and I'd always loved films. So, decided I wanted to go into documentary films. Paul came on holiday with us, in probably 1941/2, no it must have been 42/3. And he liked being very... making great offers. And he[…]
[…] big crew we had a very small. And of course there were no humans in it. It was just I don't know humans of that mind. It was supposed to be a summer documentary. Right. Which I have to say. I've only seen the dinosaur sequence from animal world and and I so I have I don't think anybody seen the res[…]