(Bill Randall, in The Ship That Died of Shame, 1955) (Michael Relph 1961: 24) The beginning, like almost everything else about me, went back to the war. I believe this the most courageous course to take and one which can result from time to time in films of the highest artistic merit and integrity which, nevertheless, have wide popular appeal and commercial success. It has a place to fill in the national life which it cannot do unless it works within the commercial structure which can give the artist the best tools to work with and allow his work to reach the widest possible audience. that the Cinema is genuinely a mass medium and that it has social and educative responsibilities as well as artistic ones. (Michael Relph, quoted in Films and Filming, January 1958: 5) I believe. (Basil Dearden 1948: 65-6) You cannot afford to make a picture unless you are madly enthusiastic about it. A director must be able to deal with temperament in others – and must know how to exploit it himself. Since the raw material of the cinema is emotion, film people are temperamental people. It is part of a director’s function to see that, at each stage, the technicians who work as his associates are fired with his own enthusiasm.

THE CINEMA OF BASIL DEARDEN AND MICHAEL RELPH

Out of My Mind by Monja Danischewsky