[…]th A Levels and I joined the meteorological office, first off. I’d always had an interest in the weather and weather forecasting so I got a job as an assistant scientific officer with the Met Office and was posted to their headquarters in Bracknell, as it was then, and I found myself in the departme[…]
[…]t, I had been reading lots of books about cameras and lenses and aerials and all sorts of stuff so he suggested that I apply for a job as a Technical Assistant at the BBC, which I duly did. I had two interviews. One interview was quite technical and the second interview was more, I don't know, it se[…]
[…] nothing that would suit you, nothing that you'd like I don't think at the moment. The only thing we've got is a chap in motion pictures who wants an assistant". And I said "Well for heaven's sakes, that's exactly the sort of job that I asked you to look for!" "Oh" they said, "alright well anyhow he[…]
[…] about "Evergreen" at all?Peter Birch : My favourite memory about "Evergreen" was one big set we had, and the floor was newly polished. And the first assistant director came charging across that floor, footsteps every inch of the way and Saville went mad. What was his name, it'll come, but I can't r[…]
[…]t home for the holidays to Ross in the August and somebody rang me up or sent me a letter and said ‘There's a job as a secretary to The Establishment Assistant in Television, Sydney W. Budd’.Mm.‘And we wonder if you'd be interested, you’ll have to come up to London for the interview’, and I'd only g[…]
[…]Cardiff myself. Charlie Tester was the sound recordist and uh Don weeks was the assistant. Who drove the through the the the truck the shooting rate that we use[…]
[…]n Shearman turned up.Unknown Speaker 6:13 His father was the chief motor engineer for the enemy's railway. And there was my uncle who was assistant secretary, and there was only one job for us, so I took the risk of telling my boss who my uncle was,Speaker 3 6:41 and he said,[…]
[…]atre there and I had to set it up to show them this wretched newsreel thing I did at school. I think I was just lucky because they didn't have camera assistants on the newsreel. There was no such thing. The cameraman did everything. But live sound was just beginning and they had the couple camera, t[…]
[…]eaker 2:44 We're still before the war anyway, when that was purely commercials.Speaker 2 2:57 At first, sort of being general assistant to Jackson and then directing the commercials, which is, oh, how many we did, doesn't matter. Well, thisRoy Fowler 3:07 is, it's[…]
