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[…]rama” (who was also a very good director. But not a good head of drama I’m afraid) and er…he er..Interviewer – Where was this?Peter – This was at the BBC at Lyme Grove, which is where they were, at er… Shepherd’s Bush. They hadn’t built the television studios at White City yet, so they were do[…]
[…]wood, and Liz went her way and did films like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which was probably one of her last films. Joan Ellacott eventually went to the BBC and Phyllis Dalton, who has two Oscars, did Doctor Zhivago and most recently, Henry V. So we all went away and did our own thing.RL: Fantastic. Wh[…]
[…]trial films; British Transport Films started on 16mm Kodak reversal in 1953/4 for their travelogue films which were then blown up to Technicolor; the BBC never used CFS for printing but did for sound recording; HTV, RTE were the biggest customers in television; a lot of work from overbroad – Sweden […]
[…]y Hickey: Yeah, they did say on one of the newsletters now and again, they say, "If you know of anybody that you feel..." Well John had been with the BBC during the war years and had done a lot of work with us at MGM before he came up to us as a freelance. So I put his name forward and anyway, they […]