[…]ust have been to work at Ufa in the late 20s, early 30s. Memories of that seeSpeaker 1  35:18  Alfred younger, who later on, joined Michael Powell and Pressburger was then established creative art designer, and then years later, when I became a lighting camera man, I worked with him on Can[…]
[…] in better times gave him a job at Beaconsfield Studios as assistant editor on two films. One was called The Chinese Bungalow and the other was Sandy Powell in a comedy called All at Sea and my Dad was the assistant editor if you please and got a few pounds a week but he had to have digs up there so[…]
[…]g crew for those days. I had 27 electricians, three on sound, you know, a big crew. Anyway, the film had a quite successful career, including sort of awards of which the one that sort of sticks in my mind as I was invited to the Brussels Budapest Hungarian embassy. And in fact, having a chat with th[…]
[…]ramming. I felt I didn’t need a Chief Assistant. I had the Programme Controllers reporting directly to me. I had never met Jonathan Powell before, other than at the odd television festival. And knew Alan Yentob slightly…well, I knew him a little bit…also from [unclear 0:08:08[…]
[…]nced editor. He eventually went to Australia, I don’t know what became of him then. I kept in touch with him a bit, he was very nice. But, when Micky Powell and Emeric Pressburger saw the film, they weren’t that happy with it. So they decided to get their, their special editor, Reggie Mills, to recu[…]
[…]ism that exists in this country. And that was through the words of a Member of Parliament, a very famous and distinguished member of parliament Enoch Powell, who was a member of parliament for Wolverhampton Southwest, which was right in the heart of the Midland region and just down the road from whe[…]
[…]any units that they used to run. 'Thief of Bagdad' for instance, I was on one of their units, and that was my first introduction to Korda and Michael Powell. Er...Oh dear, I'm running out of steam!Alan Lawson : Going back a bit to...Gordon McCallum : Will you edit this or what do you do?Alan Lawson […]
