[…] can't afford that amount of film just for one track. Digital mixing consoles have been tried in England - there were two made by me. One went to the BBC and one went to studios at Wembley. The one at Wembley never did get to work. They had so many problems, I realise it was a first initial design, […]
[…] expositional films.John Legard: Hmm.Pat Jackson: ...You know...Stuart Legg at that time was doing 'Voice of Britain'...but 'Voice of Britain' on the BBC is merely... there's no story... it's merely the camera, sort of, dipping in the various departments at the BBC, getting a vague impression, sort […]
[…]lm we're looking over our shoulder and often we're having the opportunity to speak to the people at the particular festival, the representatives from BBC, Channel Four and so forth, as to what their degree of interest is in the film, you see, which has also a degree of conditioning about. If we want[…]
[…]here for a bit atBasic Films, that’s right, Adam, dear Adam, who’s become a religious maniac I believe.Has he or not?Probably through working for the BBC I expect. [laughter]Is that what happens if you work at the BBC?No! Anyway, he was there. Gosh, who else? Oh dear. Dear, then there was another bo[…]
[…]en know what her name is. But one day she'll smile and then I'll feel better. And I'm very like that, but as I say I'm very basic, all my life at the BBC I never took it seriously. I mean to become managing director of BBC Television was beyond my wildest expectations. And when I got I used to stand[…]
[…]h this thought, I think a lot of Scots people, I've noticed it since, Bill Bryden who runs one of the directors at the National theatre, he's head of BBC Scotland now and he's a playwright and he's just obsessed with films. He was telling me coming from Paisley, his friends who had similar interests[…]
[…]to the railway system, play their part and so on. The rains December, Sweden, then we had films running at various stations during the lunch time for BBC, the daylight cinema. Yeah. Then Gerald Sayers joined us and sent from the central film in it, because he used to be with the Empire film Marketin[…]
[…]his very earliest ones, helping him when he started his things after he'd done savage splendor before he went on to do hisSpeaker 5 42:39 BBC series. This is when you were the what became the colonial Yes, ISpeaker 3 42:44 was out there. Actually, they had packed up. They pac[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
