[…]ilms but it started on Thames Television and I produced that for a couple of years. Then I went freelance in the mid seventies. Not entirely the best time to do it in fact! I ended up out of work for a bit! But eventually David Bell, who was Head of Entertainment here and whom I had met at Tham[…]
[…]n the road. You came back with your tape and you'd an idea, I tended to try and structure it, like most people do, when I was coming back - that's my best clip, that's my best picture - and tell Production what you had or quite often, not, because they just wanted to fill the programme, queue up to […]
[…]know, 'that's really good!' You know, he was, I mean I liked him and I did a lot of really good stuff for, you know, for him. I did another one - the BAFTA award. I was, again, quite pregnant and that was with Don and it was Studio A with a big budget and I could have as many Joiner/Painter hours an[…]
[…]did steal was they were the first to actually broadcast television schools programmes. They did that before the BBC and the BBC were really not best pleased about this because they were planning it, etc. etc. but Associated-Rediffusion did it first. So, there was quite a lot of work for […]
[…]s Rebecca O'Brien, and I am a film producer, and that is what I do, I produce films, and I do producing in all its forms, but I suppose the thing I'm best known for is the fact that I've produced pretty much all of Ken loach's films for the last 30 years, not all of them, but most of them. And toget[…]
[…]DB: Yes – there were two stages on the fourth floor.PM: And there was a glass section – the old glass roof.DB: Oh, still?PM: Yeah. And of course, the best thing for me was there was a railway line behind it, and behind that was Shepherd’s Bush Market, where my lunch hours were spent running up and d[…]
[…]onservative Government - Willie Whitelaw & Leon Brittain. I set up meeting for Leon to meet would-be independent producers. I set up screening at BAFTA of films by independent producers – Mike Dodds, Michael Peacock, John Cleese, Roy Godfrey. We made it look like enormous pool of talent – actual[…]
[…]e sorts of visuals, I think to what is in factor. Hello large music video. Yeah. Jim Betteridge 1:14:53 And then the Oscar nomination that passage to India. Graham Hartstone 1:14:56 Yes. Working with David lean was was a pleasure. Again, he's not[…]
[…] Q: Was bingo a license to print money?00:21:30 JIM WHITTELL: Yes, no question. The best example I can think of would be a provincial Odeon in Birmingham which used to make – and bear in mind this is middle 60’s money – used to make £[…]
[…]it you with the American Forces" and all that. So I had to go down to the Commissary and get an American uniform, which was absolutely fantastic, the best I ever had, I think! [Laughs] And er...they gave me a trip to go to the PX and er, then I had to go to the British Embassy, and I was all dressed[…]
