[…] So we had two, three rehearsals going through this role, checking that we could get it right, getting the levels right. In those days, you had cue charts, which were papers telling me exactly where on what track, everything was laid out. And so we got did about three or four rehearsals. And then I […]
[…] a great learning place. So, STV decided to make a lot more local programmes under Agnes Willkie. One of them was a programme called NB, which was an Arts programme and coming from an Engineering background I was a very, one must do these things in a certain order and be within certain degrees of co[…]
[…]Speaker 17:30 I did that kind of routine for about two years. But then I was also quarter inch tape editing, I was learning to make small documentaries in edit suites and so forth. And after three years of being a trainee on stage of being mentored by your colleagues, you went back towar[…]
[…]lovely little story on Quatermass and The Pit which I was on as an assistant and we had a scene in the bar whenQuatermass thing starts coming alive and everything starts flying through the air.[01:11:40:850] Ninety percent of the scene was in a pub and all these things are f[…]
[…]ance, hate I mean, I've gotten robbed him. I met him at the Prix Italia and sit down over dinner with him. But when he was in charge of BBC Music and Arts, he hated late night lineup, because he hated the fact that the BBC could spend a lot of money making programmes and then get critics on, on the […]
[…]s was in a corporation dust yard which is next door to what was Riverside Studios where they used to and I think still do, where they bring the dust carts to dump into the barges to take the refuse downstream, down river. We were shooting a week of nights there and there was a famous productio[…]
[…]Disney lantern slides and so on, my brother was given the hand turn cinematograph, my brother is five years older now. And it performed the Cinematic Arts who bought a toy shop and the film that to use the bits of 35 mil that you could also buy in the toy shop. Really, it was quite, it had nothing o[…]
[…]o with 'The Crimson Pirate' [NB 1952] and Nick Cravat who played opposite Bert had this appalling Brooklyn accent, he ought to have only played dumb parts.Roy Fowler: Hmm. And those with a Cockney accent had a great problem? People like Mabel Poulton for example?Vernon Sewell: Yes, yes, ye[…]
