[…]n, you know, the kind of influences from, you know, from yeah film and yeahSpeaker 1 14:05 television. Well, interestingly, I we only had BBC One we didn't have and we then got BBC Two when it started. And so the only thing we could watch was BBC. And I got really into at a young age, th[…]
[…]tners. And then there were all the pubs under the DVC, which, you know, lunchtime, you'd expect to go and talk to such friends as you can find in the BBC, pubs in factories. And the French club, I'll be drawn, again, my person and I should have mentioned before another part of my education, from the[…]
[…]tish Entertainment History Project Interview No. 710 Interviewee: Anne Hanford, formerly Head of Television Library Services at the BBCInterviewer: Sue MaldenTranscriber: Linda Hall-Shaw SUE MALDEN: Thank you very much for talking to us Anne.ANNE HANFORD: It’[…]
[…]The River Plate as a result of that. So I had some mentors. And Basil Dearden was a mentor of mine as well. And in the years following my time at the BBC I became 2nd unit director on The Four Just Men, Basil was very good to me and gave me chunks of series to do which &[…]
[…]isit…HF: Right. Well I was doing these clubs. Now one of the clubs was frequented by journalists -I didn’t know it at the time – and reporters at the BBC which was radio in those days. And I went in with my papers as I did once a day, shouting out “Germans in Berlin, Star paper” and a man behind the[…]
[…]d the old coconuts you used many years ago. Organ pipes for sirens, we used to blow them.All the dodges that they still use in effects like the BBC boys took them all up didn’t they? And I became the effects man there and then I graduated in the sound department, in the music recording r[…]
[…] lieu of the money that they owed me. But the whole point was that during - when I first got this assignment from Spot News, they asked me to contact BBC news to work out and to get a liaison agreement between Spot and the BBC. This was in '52. And the BBC then, their newsreel was a magazine program[…]
[…]college I was … went to the careers office and they suggested me for two basic jobs, and one was a research oficer at Equity and one was a trainee in BBC radio, and I applied for both and got down to the last two of the Equity job, but i was, you know, all I had was an academic degree I had absolute[…]
[…]ers by fillers what we meant was what you'd say commercials today. But they had a style that was different from commercials. And they were run by the BBC and the and and ITV at the time. a certain amount of time was was given as a sort of goodwill gesture also because I think they didn't sell all th[…]
[…]nks about it the more disastrous Sydney Box is inretrospect.Maurice Carter: And we had to move out of Shepherd's Bush at that time, it was sold tothe BBC, three quarters the way through Columbus, so the whole shooting match had tobe transferred to Pinewood. Of course that was received with absolute […]
