Lectures on the Movie Business – BAFTA and David Lean & Kitchen Sink and Carry On

BAFTA & David Lean

Lean’s editing origins and early B/W films. His involvement with Carol Read and others founding the British Film Academy which ultimately led to BAFTA. Lean’s great motion pictures – Bridge On the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia etc.

Kitchen Sink & Carry On

The 60s: Not being able to compete with Hollywood blockbusters financially, the emergence of low budget B/W gritty films – The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Tom Courtney)Saturday NightSunday Morning – Albert Finney/Rachel Roberts. At the same time the Carry On films were being produced – all 31 of them!

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