[…]gard: He doesn't recall what the film was?Teddy Darvas: No, it was some one-reeler or two-reeler [in about 1908]. And when Robert Rush, the BBC producer, that did the programme about Korda, he asked my father to go and tell this story but father said 'Who wants an ugly old Jew who speaks v[…]
[…]Film Unit, they didn’t expect me to be a member of the Union. But when I did together with a friend, Guy Brenton, who was working at that time at the BBC and I'd known at Oxford, he wanted to make a film about deaf children and he came to me with the idea and said would I help him because I had had […]
[…] television that was being produced was important, particularly by the BBC, and we should take some television but on a […]
[…] Guy Brenton, who was working at that time at the BBC and I'd known at Oxford, he wanted to make […]
[…]The Edwardians (1972-4),[105] and the one I was in was called ‘Darling Daisy’. The costumes were, to be believed, they were so beautiful. As only the BBC can do, I think – certainly in those days – the quality of the production in every way. I mean, even your petticoat, which was never seen; everyth[…]
[…]ard 1:28 I didn't know. I never had any idea. Hadn't the faintest idea? I got into into radio because I joined BBC Plymouth, 5PY, which was a local radio station BBC, of course, had to be in those days, 1932 ,32 and my father knew the chief engineer of the Plym[…]
[…]The River Plate as a result of that. So I had some mentors. And Basil Dearden was a mentor of mine as well. And in the years following my time at the BBC I became 2nd unit director on The Four Just Men, Basil was very good to me and gave me chunks of series to do which &[…]
[…]e?Yes, that’s right, mm.And it had a marble bathroom.[Laughter]Mind you we were in bunk beds, which was a bit of a letdown because my letter from the BBC said it would be dormitory type accommodation sharing, they didn’t say you would be in a bunk bed, you know.[05:06][Laughter]But anyway I’d been i[…]
[…]yone in television. I'll introduce you he said and. So the next day came an invitation to meet Michael Barry at the Royal Automobile Club, not at the BBC, and we started talking and I said and may I tell you what I think of BBC Television. He said yes, tell me. And I said I think nothing, it's just […]
