[…]eir names on titles now blokes who come to technicolour as projectionists are or other jobs and I've done this six months and they're out both on the BBC I see their names on there you know and they say they couldn't get it they couldn't be get in Pinewood orDenham or anything like that but te[…]
[…]ating things like trying to get some measure of agreement on connectors. And, again, the industry didn't want to know In fact, it turned out that the BBC was divided internally almost equally into two halves. One did it one way and one did it the other face of that what's good I would say that the c[…]
[…], I don‟t know what...That’s right, it used to be the, where the toilets are now, they used to have the General Councils in there at one time.And the BBC came along and photographed a part of the meeting...That’s right.To put it on the News and we were invited round to watch it. But one of the thing[…]
[…]in nothing to do with the RAF but we just happened to be there.We were constantly looking for stories. We were 1ike correspondents in uniform and the BBC had a habit, we used to get news from them before anyone else and it was wildly inaccurate sometimes. They announced the fall of Holland. They sai[…]
[…]en those days and now when you're in charge of the place.GC: It all changed when first of all Alf passed away, Riverside had already been sold to the BBC, Southall was decrepit anyway, and he only had a lease on it, we discarded it and concentrated here, when Alf died the whole situation changed, I […]
[…]at one could do that otherwise you could never have worked those hours,Speaker 1 27:56 did you because then Ealing folded and sold to the BBC, and then I believe you went on to Pinewood on TV series.Speaker 2 28:14 Well, when Ealing were first packing up, I've been tipped off[…]
[…]very early on. We also requested a lavender print that we could send to to the UK were Rhodesia house organised the showing of it to the newsreel and BBC representatives who were able to take duplicate negatives from this lavender print of any items which they felt they would like to use. And we got[…]
[…]oor of this pub I could hear myself playing the piano. I thought, I'm going crackers! But I wasn't, it was the same soundtrack being broadcast by the BBC.Roy Fowler: Extraordinary. And you recognised your touch?Eddie Dryhurst: Well I naturally recognised the tune right away and, I reckoned how funny[…]
[…]ome in on it. Dut in those days the ABS was hardly what you would call a trade union. In the BEC vie never got anywhere. We had members there but the BBC would never really acknowledge this gave us. any rights and I remember a famous meeting. There was a letter from the director general or the assis[…]
[…]ack did and I think Peter ... and John Shirley, I've got a great respect for John Shirley, he cut Reach for the Sky. You must look tonight, your BBC have got British heroes and they're all ...Tape 2, Side 3Bill Girdlestone: ... he learned so quick. See Alan Hume learned quick but nobody le[…]
