[…]n the wall in my room at home - a huge one like that - on which you're sitting at a table with about twenty others when we won in 1975 and we won the best ITV programme for that year and they're all sitting there and it's great to see you sitting there now! I: Oh boy! To be quite honest with yo[…]
[…]t arrived and Francis was a very dashing wee chap from ATV and London and very much a Light Entertainment specialist, and indeed, hadn't long won the Bafta for a show with Millie [Millicent] Martin, as I recall, as Light Entertainment Producer of the Year when we got it. Anyway, Martin, sorry, Franc[…]
[…]s a documentary, basically, about them but with their concert. I: It won a few awards, didn't it, that programme? R: It did, yeah, it won a BAFTA. I: How did you, you must be quite...? R: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely! [61:29]I: We are back in VT and by this time, what, we are i[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]nbsp;25 saw it as a prestigious show that sold round the world. That did well at film festivals, won, would win the Prix Italia and you know did Bafta; it would win Bafta awards and so it was that side of LWT that they could say: ‘Look we don’t just do LE we’ve got The South Bank Show.’ It was […]
[…]n’t have much school during The Blitz really because we were in the shelters most of the time, having singsongs and trying to conduct an education as best as people could really. (TIME 07:05) So, it was a kind of tough but it was an exciting time actually as well for children.&nbs[…]
[…]ctually. If the truth be told well they look very rubbery to me and very shiny and the skin didn't have much texture to it. Having said that it's the best part of the films. Everybody says yes I think that's the only part that's remember.SPEAKER: M2Irwin Allen used to hire separate cameramen and the[…]
[…]gh, and got on the board, and went to Wrotham in Kent to be a…trained as an officer in the Royal Artillery. And, to cut a long story short, I met the best friend (one of the best friends I ever had) which was Peter Chudley, who was just a great friend, and of course, it so happened the (indistinct) […]
[…]an the majors? Or did the majors get the better deal? The majors always got the better deal - that’s life, isn't it. No, the independents, we did the best we could for them but obviously we were responsible to our supervisors, etc. but no doubt about it, the circuits were able to Squeeze us as in an[…]
[…]this all the time and still do. You must learn to create style and not follow it. Let other people copy you. Once you copy other people you're second best at that, that kind of thing. Ernest Maxin 6:02 And so I went through this three years of absolutely loving it. I was b[…]
