[…]eady passed security. Although I think those days we didn't have security. You just wanted in say hi to the commissioner who knew anyway, suddenly at Alexandra Palace, Hi, Harry, hate it, you know, fun, no cards or anything. But I asked my boss, you know, one of watch Doctor Who and they said, There[…]
[…]evision. We got him to do one series Ronnie actually produced the first three of these at the Playhouse with with equipment which must have come from Alexandra Palace because it was breaking down you know one camera would go and it was live too. And, and Ronnie did the first three ... Mrs Hamil[…]
[…]nd the Rank Organisation was, was dead in the water at that point, they closed Denham and then everything was over at Pinewood.The, so I got a job at Alexandra Palace and I've forgotten how whether someone told me, they must've done, that there was a job going with as a Summer Relief Callboy, which […]
[…]. I got thisjob with Camera and BBC Television News based at Limegrove. I was there for about a year andafter that I went to - we were transferred to Alexandra Palace, in the very early days of televisionwhen things were very basic, we were working on film teles, cine with film on it. If you did it […]
[…] it' s all going to be sophisticated.DB. It looks like it was done on a very very small soundstage, a small studio.PS. It was a big studio, it was at Alexandra Palace...DB. .. But the actual set for it...PS. Oh yes. The stage was about equal to the width of this room, and a woman, Freda Lindstrom wa[…]
[…] think in the Nutcracker, and Joy Newton asked me to be the baby bear. I think that was March 1937. That was my first experience of television.NS: At Alexandra Palace?MD: At Alexandra Palace. Disc 1 Side 1 Track 6MD: It was a great success. I think the producer was D H Munro. I don’t recall a g[…]
