Dallas Bower

[…]ck dissolve now’. Quick dissolve six feet and Gerald Cock, who became the first director of television when the service was put into the hands of the BBC by the government at that time, came to Cricklewood to do some recording for some OBs that he was going to make. In those days you see the corpora[…]

Lusia Krakowska (Mrs Arendt)

[…]small films, mainly one reelers which they send to all over the world. We made the foreign version in 13 languages and I got the translators from the BBC, whatever language came upRF: You're based where? Are they still at Pinewood?LK: In BeaconsfieldRF: Well take us through typical operation then. T[…]

Tim Emblem-England

Tim Emblem-English (TE) Archive Telecine Specialist, Former BBC Broadcast Engineer Interviewers: Paul Frith (PF) & Carolyn Rickards (CR) Date 21/05/2018 Length 01:48:52 CR: So we’re here with an interview today with Tim Emblem-English. Thank you very much for agreeing to[…]

Michael Houldey

[…]ed drama, Documentary, Music, Arts, medical, and waternsw. So I've had quite a broad spectrum when when, and I've also worked for major companies for BBC for all the most of the ITV companies before that when they were still in existence, channel for independence. And that's, that's, that's who I am[…]

Dennis Main Wilson

[…] took French and German and then lastly Spanish which has stood me in good stead because I ended up when I left school in the European service of the BBC for a year and a half before I was called up at 18 and a half. When the war finished, I was seconded by my regiment to become the Unterhaltungsche[…]

Winston (Wyn) Ryder

[…]ds “She come down.” And he was absolutely in love with this. I spoke to Ronnie about him and I said “Why doesn’t Rank come to an arrangement with the BBC, give him decent equipment, because he was using these awful old disc things that rumbled and thumped, and must have weighed a ton; give him a dec[…]

Derek Threadgall

[…]in amount of reality about plays and about series I think what is going on now is is excessive and is geared to getting ratings. And that's where the BBC are falling down and they're actually entering the ratings war and they don't need to. They shouldn't have to but I just I don't like saying that […]

Mike Bradsell

[…]n to leave the company. After about five months, I started shopping around and this was in the summer of 1962, I saw an advert in the newspaper for a BBC film department at Ealing was taking on temporary staff for the editing department. So I ran the number to find out what it was all about. And a f[…]

Interview

[…]n to leave the company. After about five months, I started shopping around and this was in the summer of 1962, I saw an advert in the newspaper for a BBC film department at Ealing was taking on temporary staff for the editing department. So I ran the number to find out what it was all about. And a f[…]
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