[…]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[…]
[…] - well on the North Circular to Muswell Hill, to Alexandra Palace, for this interview. I had enough money to go […]
[…]roblem because it was pouring with rain, and my wife and I had just enough money for me to go by bus - well on the North Circular to Muswell Hill, to Alexandra Palace, for this interview. I had enough money to go one way you see [laughs]. So I thought, "Right, well I'll take the bus there so that I […]
