[…]en Neilson Baxter who was the Treasurer found this place in Soho Square to buy - the Union had no money, you know, and a shot in the dark, it was the best thing the union had done - I think it was four thousand pounds if I remember correctly, something like that, and that was when the buzz bombs wer[…]
[…]here was this?Bill Girdlestone: At Denham, the last five years. They had sufficient sense to know what I was doing and I was able to produce the best colour pictures that this country ever saw. When I did Oh, What a Lovely War, 1968, we showed it at the Plaza, I sat with Dickie Attenboroug[…]
[…] True Grit. I think they were more generous at the BAFTA awards. I think they got awards here. Norman Swallow: […]
[…]an-hour there was a scream of police sirens and they arrived, they took the bomb away, they chastised me for being extremely .. well I don’t know the best word – ‘idiot’ I think is probably – and the bomb was duly exploded elsewhere. Anyway that was the bomb. As far as we were concerned, going back […]
[…]in Love you know and Billy Williams came in and supervised the grade on that and subsequently Billy then showed it to the whole BSC showed it at BAFTA got a BAFTA award. It’s fantastic that these films can be made to look like they’re brand new, and that’s the wonder of Eastmancolor.SS: Do you […]
[…]n’t even listed as the chemicals we know they are. You know, sulphuric acid, wasn’t said it was sulphuric acid, it wasn’t even used by its chemical denomination, it was set as a coded word, so BA ST3 or something like that. They would have their own codes for the chemicals and the bits you were usin[…]
[…]along from the main branch so that also got me out of the shop as well. I used to spend hours rewinding films, repairing films, hiding out the way as best I could and that got me knowledge of how a Film Library ran. That was the biggest library in Scotland I believe at the time and possibly forever.[…]
[…] suggesting, you know, who wants to go down that pit? And working in the steelworks? Was, it really boring mechanical work, and it's not bringing the best out of people? And I was very, very affected by him, John, something. MS: Is that the guy, you mean? PW: Yeah. And, and I thought, you know, he w[…]
[…]e first series dapping for the great Humphrey Lyttleton when he couldn't do a couple of recordings, but they got me and William, which was one of the best things that happened. Looking back, it was just great. been there ever since. We lost Willian 1996 and growing garden and termini, still heavily […]
[…]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 […]
