[…]n the 5th Brigade in Galway. He was education officer to 5 Brigade in Galway at the start of the War of Independence and he was stationed in all the parts of Ireland that I now know very well indeed and in some cases no particular people, long dead now, whom he knew in towns that we have since becom[…]
[…]dio managing techniques, sound effects up through microphone balancing and basic recording and things like that and then we were attached to various parts of radio. I was in schools, talks at BBC, went to Oxford Circus and Bush House which were the overseas stations, and then ended up in variety in […]
[…] that you did your job well, and they were very efficient but very tolerant. And I had a very happy childhood there because we were introduced to the arts. Now, when saw operas from age of 10 onwards, went to orchestras, symphony orchestras every Sunday morning there used to be my father used to enc[…]
[…]hat was the last feature film I did, and since then, I've done mainly commercials and short filmsSpeaker 2 42:41 for I did some for video arts for John Cleese art fit, but mainly commercials.Unknown Speaker 42:53 What training films did you do? Yes, I.Unknown Speaker 0:[…]
[…]can't recall at the moment. I did. Ariel in the tempest. And during the test rehearsal, I had to jump on a barrel and sort of scare the comedy comic parts in the air. And the barrel healed over the rehearsal. And I hit something or other and apparently got out dabbling and walked into the edge of th[…]
Peggy Gick (art director/production designer) b.1911 by admin — last modified Jul 27, 2008 02:13 PM BIOGRAPHY: Peggy Gick trained […]
[…] a simple -minded reaction. I think so many of the arts, opera have become outrageously expensive to stage. But if […]
Alan Lawson 0:08 The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project. Ann Turner arts features television producer, interviewer, Norman Swallow, recorded on the 22nd of March 1995. side oneshouting No, no first where when were you born?Ann Turner 0:42 I was[…]
[…]u like. And in a week of local parochial television, how nice to go to some foreign parts, Syria if you like, to find out how people were suffering fromwhatever ailments […]
[…] did have an assistant on 'The Double Deckers' who was very ingenious...he did nice ingenious drawings for little things they wanted made like fancy carts and things. But then I said, now [Mike] you look after that and get that done, and I found he was going to the special effects because he didn't […]