[…]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[…]
[…]on’t get a lot of parts with an accent.SF: No, of course, not.So he’d gone and taken elocution lessons.SF: Yes.And risen through the ranks-ish in the BBC.SF: Yes.Started as a floor manager.SF: Yes.And worked in the BBC. So when I met him he’d just made a little film, I think I was about... How old w[…]
[…]g with him once much later on in television, when Bill Lyon-Shaw and I were working - Bill Lyon-Shaw was the producer, I was the floor manager at the BBC, and we used to a show called Life Begins at Sixty, and everybody in the cast was over sixty, and everybody in the audience was over sixty! [laugh[…]
[…]? And I can't remember having much advice from them. But, and I don't know where I got the idea from but we must get on to it quickly, I wrote to the BBC and asked them if I could have a job in the BBC, because like all sixteen, seventeen year olds, you don't know what you want to do. And I thought […]
[…]and he doesn’t like women, and he really liked me, andHe was my patron, to me I think ... he got me out of the into being a Director in the BBC.I love him, love him.So, you know, I’m very fond of Ned, or was, as he’s now, asRENÉE GLYNNE: We’re drinking. Or I’m, I mean, you are not dri[…]
[…]for the best in the end, but it was from Brighton as he eventually got the job of Coventry Hippodrome from Coventry Hippodrome, it was the Birmingham BBC, who started him broadcasting.Unknown Speaker  17:50  We, it's interesting that I mean, in terms of broadcast and we go to a load come i[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] I think that if I was starting and I wanted to go into the industry, I would go into television. I would get trained by a television company - BBC or you know - and then try to be creative, direct if I could or produce, you know, because if you are with a company then you know you are going t[…]
[…]cameras, I don't know, but we were still modifying them. On occasion, I.Unknown Speaker  40:03  Yeah, and we also, we also did work for the BBC newsreel, didn't we?Unknown Speaker  40:09  You did maintenance, yes, because can I remember you had a Mitchell camera with a sound head[…]
