[…]hat time Philip thought he was involved in the politics of the BBC. I mean, this was in the days of McGivern, Norman Collins, the television at Alexandra Palace was derided.I:   Early 50s, yeah?R:   Early 50s. 1950 I arrived at the BBC. 1950. T[…]
[…]and er...another 'Old Mother Riley' I think...and er, we finished there, and this gentleman rang me up, Dale Struther[?] I said "BBC?! Oh God...BBC?! Alexandra Palace?!...Never been up there!" and he said "Well, could you do the start of The Boat Race?" and I said er "Oh yes!" and the only experienc[…]
[…]?Before the war and he, he wanted to come back as a producer, which he did.Television?Television producer. And so in I think March 1946 we went up to Alexandra Palace and we had an office and we started getting together programmes. And it was, it was very exciting and I mean there was no training. M[…]
[…]ng to do with the BBC, then I lived in Prince...[30:06]Mm.In Prince, Prince, oh what's that road? Princes Road, down near the V&A.A long way from Alexandra Palace of course?Yes, and I’ll tell you how we got there. And then, then eventually I conned the BBC for some reason into letting me back in[…]
[…] first class and when you could get the sound off it was quite reasonable, it was a film camera on top of a processing machine, the room we had it at Alexandra Palace, when we installed the equipment at Alexandra Palace had kind of 3 positions. You had an arc, you had one set on your extreme left, y[…]
[…] different to this extent Alan, that the studios had in fact been planned as a theatre rather than as a film studio, I'm talking now about A and B at Alexandra Palace they were both of course damned. Then they both, both A and B studios had tabs, they both had a cyclorama, in fact, the consideration[…]
[…] I was put onto sound and the boys used to be devils and send you up the high ladders, to watch you go up and things like this.RF: So you went to AP [Alexandra Palace] as a vision mixer?BH: That's right, they were very, very early daysRF: Tell us about the equipment and the techniques in 1946. You w[…]
[…]iaison agreement between Spot and the BBC. This was in '52. And the BBC then, their newsreel was a magazine programme that they used to produce up at Alexandra Palace and it was the first television newsreel. It was a twice a week thing, it was every night, every day rather but they changed it twice[…]
[…]she said maybe you won't come and join us but perhaps just come and see us. So I went in office time which was pretty tricky stuff, and I went out to Alexandra Palace, and I went into the North Towers I suppose it was where there was Andrew Miller Jones and George Nordoff and Mary and her nice silve[…]
