Chris Menges

[…]ig problem that you can’t solve is speed. So I used to send my 16mm colour neg to Chemtone in New York and they had a boosting system and fortunately ATV allowed me to send my rushes to New York to be processed so I could push my neg at least a stop. And then one of the lenses I used a lot was a .95[…]

Renee Glynne

[…]h.DARROL BLAKE: Shepperton, possibly?RENÉE GLYNNE: No. They were one-hour films at Elstree, which was then called ... whatever it was called ... ATV I think.DARROL BLAKE: Oh, I see. Actually, filming in a television studio.RENÉE GLYNNE: Yeah, yeah. It had been a film studio. It had been Mrs ...[…]

Ken Holt

  INTERVIEW OUTLINE   KEN HOLT – laboratory worker; special effects; studio manager, head of film unit at ATV. Interviewed 13 June 2013   Interviewer: Sean Holmes Camera: Andrew Dawson   DoB: 14 February 1930   Family background: Youngest of[…]

Joe McGrath

[…] of work - commercial television was starting - wandered along and saw Michael Yates in which we know who were head of departments at Rediffusion and ATV I got a job with Richard Real (?)  ATV - 00:05:42Very funny story about that because he said to me “Yes we can offer you a job here”. &n[…]
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