[…]sp;sue.malden@btinternet.com.Jim Clark Side 1======================================= SPEAKER: M1Right. This is about James Clark a distinguished film editor preferred to be called Jim actually rather than to say that from now on I'll call you Jim. For the record James. Yes yes. Anyway Jim yes w[…]
[…]ersonal terms of reference, have always or generally appealed to them. I've had hellish arguments in the fronts of shop fronts while doing industrial films in one city or another but it is generally resolved with an amicable understanding that I'm on their side, which I think I am. I hope so.C[…]
[…] and never forgotten it. And because I couldn't get into the theatre I decided to try the people who'd made Night Mail. And I found out where the GPO Film Unit were, they were in Soho Square. So I went there and I was told they'd moved to Denham. And I got the name of the woman who was responsible f[…]
[…]ods. The Carmichaels are certainly Ian's family, and the Greenwoods are also tied up in some way with the Greenwoods that one comes up against in the film industry. We wrote on slates, and we learnt to read and all the rest - we learnt a little bit of French, and when I was seven my father was trans[…]
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[…]
[…]ly you are right. But can I just say that to start as it were in the middle, as I think you know, he was knighted in 1947 for services to the British film industry during the war. He was also a Knight First Class of the Order of St. Olaf, Norway, which he and Charlie Frend acquired I think because o[…]
[…]tarted a radio business, which was very successful and I made a lot of money. I got a bit bored with it and I had a cousin who was making advertising films and he asked me if I'd like to join them. So I went in with them, with his two partners and him and we started in um - in fact what we did, do y[…]
[…]sed to act more-or-less as sort of employment help for us. I said, 'what's going?' And he said, "well the architectural world's a bit quiet but three film companies have rung up." So I thought, well let's give it a go.John Legard: So really the films started at a very early age then? While you were […]
[…]lly new cinema. That's to say, the new wave. And that had a huge impact on me. And I decided there and then this is what I want to do. I want to make films. But how do I make films? Well, to start with, I was sort of lucky in a way because I went to the American centre where that where there was a d[…]
[…]l kids, you know, that kind of thing. It really wasn't a good thing. And quite honestly, the best thing that happened to me, I think, was joining the film industry. Next best thing was coming to Hampstead (laughter) which was very relaxed... About colour and religion. 03:57At school did you hav[…]
