[…]ts of people available and this in turn gave lots of work to lots of people. Then later I'll never forget they invented Colourtran. I was at the BBC Ealing and a man came with Colourtran and said look two kilowats of light in that little thing, I didn't believe him. He lifted it up with one han[…]
[…]e never known anybody shoot with such low ratios. I mean when we went out shooting Peter shot the shot and that was it there was no messing about. No BBC 40 takes. It was just what he knew exactly what he wanted it was all absolutely planned that went in his head not on paper. And eventually they th[…]
[…] you give us a bit of your sort of early educational background?I think my very first school was a convent that no longer exists; in fact I think the BBC had kind of built around there in Maida Vale. Then I went to a preparatory school then I went to, it was called then, Paddington and Maida Vale Hi[…]
[…]Page 5Tape 17Michaela Denis and their film series was called On Safari and I think about two years previously to that they had won the BBC award for the best factual programme, probably in 1956 or 4 or something like that. Although television in those days was only black and white and[…]
[…]g in The King and I, very lovely girl. Never mind. John Legard: Not Virginia McKenna ?Jean Anderson: No, because I worked with Virginia in films quite a lot.  No, Virginia McKenna also played it, so, no, can’t remember.Margaret Thomson: So at the moment, in a chronological sense, you[…]
[…]away Italy's real got the money from unbelievable. They arrived from Central Europe. And in no time they're gonna engage officers nearly opposite the BBC out there important and start making making movies. Anyway, I went ahead to go and see him for my employment. And he said to me, and I assure you […]
[…]were concerned.  They were based in Southampton and their Programme Director was a chap called Berkeley Smith, and Berkeley Smith was an ex-BBC man and he knew how to do television properly. And I went to Southampton, I drove to Southampton and I discovered – well I had been told – that th[…]
[…]rk Darrol Blake  11:47  Prior to that, though there had been other television series, presumably, I mean animated things for BBC or ITV, Kent Houston  11:55  I  never did very much in the way TV series, except when I was working for Halas a[…]
[…]l received?Jill Craigie: Yes, they were. They made money. And then of course there was the Evening Standard, the campaigns in the newspapers. But the BBC was very, very popular. The Brains Trust with Professor Joad and ... have you ever heard any of those?Interviewer (unidentified): Yes. Can I go ba[…]
