[…] written about which is interesting, Sequence was not interested in documentary, and this was probably the result of influence to […]
[…]Action; larger than life, willing to standup to authority.JBOh yes, I mean it was fascinating World in Action which was I think the first journalisticdocumentary series wasn't it. They'd been quite soft up till then really; there'd been a lot of‘look at life’ style documentaries and the idea of havi[…]
[…] two thou.....[End of Track 1]BECTU History ProjectInterviewee Interviewer Track NoYvette Vanson Katie Megan 11[Track 2]For me that’s not enough with documentary-making. You have to have an analysis of it, not by some voiceover. I never did voiceovers in the early days, we never had that; it was pro[…]
[…]e months before I gave birth to her film career, so to speak. And my first job was with the film Producers Guild, which was at that time, the largest documentary company in London, England. They comprise about 14 companies. When was that?Unknown Speaker 28:42 44 was it?Paddy Carey […]
[…]tary, sue.malden@btinternet.com.Alan Lawson 0:07 The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Bob Angell documentary director, producer, company director interviewers in order Alan Lawson, Norman swallow recorded on the first of December1993. side one loc[…]
[…]real experience and learning was when I left school and when I was about sixteen I got a job with an American filmmaker called Alan Forbes. Alan made documentary films. He was in London and he taught me about editing, and about camera operating, and about sound, and basically was a very committed fi[…]
[…]ou know, try and carve out any, it’s virtually impossible. And even Atomic Café, ‘cause we, erm, The Raffertys, with Jane Loader who made a brilliant documentary called The Atomic Café which was, er, a look at propaganda, pro-bomb propaganda, films made about nuclear war, er wonderful film, er, that[…]
[…]PO Film Unit. He had, of course, worked for Robert Flaherty ('Man of Aran')... and it was from the arrival of Harry Watt that the 'preciosity' of the documentary movement was turned into something a little bit more human. Because Harry was one of these lucky people who always remained the same, ebul[…]
[…]m that I could find as an alternative to fashion art,which was my then passion. And I didn’t know anything about films at all, but I sort offelt that documentary films seemed to offer me something that interested me. But I didn’tknow anybody in films and I had nobody who had any connections with any[…]