[…]ously need more money. So I worked out some prints for PA. I worked on a programme about Florence Nightingale, first of all, and then I went into the documentary department. But the head of PAs was a man at that time is usually a woman. And he took me into the office where I was going to work the do[…]
[…]ly Dumbo and then Pinocchio, but apart from that I knew that my father photographed in black and white and when he went off to shoot a documentary or film, it was always in black and white. Occasionally he would put a roll of Kodachrome through his camera but my destiny seemed to be i[…]
[…]terim period I worked in a thing called Scotland Today Report that Eric Willkie (no relation of mine), a really nice man, ran which was the half-hour documentary, weekly documentary series so I was a researcher on that. Sometimes I worked on Ways and Means, a political programme with Colin MacKay an[…]
[…]me a director is to go into the cutting room”. How this poet should know that, I don’t know, but he did. He phoned up Basil Wright, who was a leading documentary maker, and Basil phoned up the head of Strand Films, who said “come along and see me”. I must have a drink..Interviewer – Where were they […]
[…]t get in there and do it. And there'll be two or three of you and say, Okay, what we're doing on Monday or what programmes are on Well, that's a good documentary or shall we get some people in to watch it I don't know when i What about the drama was a good start Yeah, well yes we if you haven't ende[…]
