[…]lm, and I said “If you put it in, if you’ve got a budget of £750,000, and hidden in there is a print for the National Film Archive - £1500 – even the accountants might not notice that.”1 hour 10 minutesOf course, the accountants always did. But at least they could always lose that little budget item[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 431[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: TBCInterview Date: 1998-03-25Interviewer: Alan LawsonInterviewee: David Robson[Tape 1, Side 1]The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. David Robson, one time cinema projectionist, television […]
[…]lan Lawson: What were you called, what did you call yourselves?John Turner: John Turner Enterprises Ltd. I made it into a limited company. I used the accountant that one used at the Newsreel Association as my accountant, so that he knew all about me, and he was pretty decent to start with, you know,[…]
[…]by the states now the actual day to day operations. So the board's responsibility is far less than it used to be.Roy Fowler 29:15 But the accountants have been taken over by the world theDennis Kimbley 29:18 chair current chairman's accounting Chairman before him as an accoun[…]
[…]er did was at Shell. It went wrong. They had all become very hard-nosed and Thatcherite. That was the trouble. You had to bid for work. In my day the accountants stayed in the back row. I think now of the marvellous entrepreneurial power that Film Centre and the descendants of Grierson had. Edgar (A[…]
[…]lavour of the month. And so, by this time, we were getting more sponsored films from the government and from other sources. And we were then with our accountant said, Well, of course you're overtrading disgracefully, you thought, clue, clueless businessman trying to operate this company. And of cour[…]
[…]saw an advert in the Daily Telegraph saying that the right organisation we're going to get into the business of filmmaking how they wanted production accountants with a budgetary knowledge well I'd done about four years with the with the Lucas grew up in Burnley making tanks and things. And so the b[…]
BEHP transcript DisclaimerThis transcript has been produced automatically using Otter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for[…]
