Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Up (film series)" in English language version.
It all began in 1964 with Seven Up!, a one-off edition of Granada Television's World in Action, which was directed by a Canadian, Paul Almond, but shaped by a fresh-faced young researcher, a middle-class Cambridge graduate called Michael Apted. / "It was Paul's film", says Apted now, "but he was more interested in making a beautiful film about being seven, whereas I wanted to make a nasty piece of work about these kids who have it all, and these other kids who have nothing". / A pause. [Michael Apted continues.] "But maybe I'm deluding myself. They might think, 'Oh good, someone new. We're fed up with grumpy old Michael.'" / Certainly, the relationship has had its ups and downs. Several of the original 14 have withdrawn from one or more of the films and one, Charles Furneaux, opted out completely after 21 Up. "He's now a documentary film-maker himself [he was executive producer of Touching the Void], which I find particularly hard to swallow", says Apted. / "He actually tried to get himself removed from the earlier films, too, but he's integral to the famous 'posh boys three' shot [the prep school boys interviewed together in Seven Up!] and Granada told him to take a flying jump.
ITV's landmark documentary Up series began in 1964, following a group of people drawn from startlingly different backgrounds who have allowed television cameras to drop into their lives at seven-year intervals ever since.[better source needed]
