[…]sted. So I made what was to become... I made the first of what was to become the typically English movie: the picture with actors, but founded upon a documentary story, with a real background. So I went and made that, and it was quite a big success.Ralph Bond : You made it on the location I believe?[…]
[…]ere Dave MacDonald and Alec Bryce were there doing Diamond City. So I bumped into them. This is where I bumped into Dennis Mitchel who later became a documentary film producer. But in those days was making programmes on tape for the BBC. He used to disappear out into the bush with reels and reels of[…]
[…]l you see, and there was a Shell unit. And I think Beddington could only think really in terms of his own experience of film-making which was totally documentary nothing else at all. And I decided that I'd had enough of it. He wanted to bring in Arthur Elton, in which he succeeded in doing much to A[…]
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[…]on for the week to look after things. And on the front on the Friday of that week, we had a job from films of today. It was a two real, 35 millimeter documentary. And so it was about 1819, minutes long, and we started mixing in the morning, and by just before lunch, the 35 mil magnetic recorder[…]
