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[…]my own. I was when I was young. But as soon as I got involved, I became Chairman of the bloody Composers Guild, etc., etc., fighting battles with the BBC, et al. And since I was forty I've never been on my own at all. If you're talking about the lonely artist you haven't got one here.There are lonel[…]
[…]f art school at Farnham, and I should say that painting is also a thing in my family. I wasn't painting but I was being painted. And I applied to the BBC and it shot through very quickly. It was how lucky I suddenly got this invitation from one called Gertrude Leonard and met John O Bride? not at th[…]
[…]a century. I know you started off in the camera department became a cameraman. And that you ended up as the producer of those specialised films 50 years is quite time, how did it all begin?John Wiles 0:43 Well, I suppose it began really with my, as a kid I had an interest in […]
[…]ion rights. But then Christopher decided that that's not what we would do this time round. I think because there was a feeling in the Museum that the BBC had perhaps not agreed to the kind of deal that they should have for The Great War series although quite a lot of money continued to come in from […]
[…]vid ProsserTape 1, Side 1Alan Lawson: The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. David Prosser, Newsreel cameraman, later BBC film cameraman. Recorded on the 23rd of the fifth, 1989 at his home in Chandler's Ford, Interviewer Alan Lawson. Side one.[break in recording]Alan[…]
[…]unds like two years for Ealing... You went there in 1937 until 1939...PS. Yes.. yes.. And I liked Ealing very much... And way after the war, when the BBC formed a film unit, and I got in, they bought Ealing Studios, and it was home from home, because I went there, and one of the electricians who'd k[…]
[…] SR At the end of the 80s you left the BBC, having been there a long time, and set up […]
[…] stuff like that. And this was the time when the BBC were transmitting 30 line TV on long-wave I think, […]
[…]actor sometimes to read the minimalcommentary. Yeah.Can we stop for a second year just because I feel yes. It's….SRAt the end of the 80s you left the BBC, having been there a long time, and set up your ownproduction company. Can you tell me why you did that?JBWell. I remember it was very much agains[…]
