[…]ppose about 1963 as far as color started I forget exactly what it was that BBC toured going on but later than that I think that a little later that ye[…]
[…]en those days and now when you're in charge of the place.GC: It all changed when first of all Alf passed away, Riverside had already been sold to the BBC, Southall was decrepit anyway, and he only had a lease on it, we discarded it and concentrated here, when Alf died the whole situation changed, I […]
[…]eeping of Euston Films..." I was in seventh heaven, right? And then one day, as you know, what happened was that Brian Cowgill heard rumours that the BBC were having trouble in renewing their contract for Dallas with the Americans, the price was going up. So, without telling his own chairman apparen[…]
[…]movies. And he can see by people paying by the by the number of depending on the people who saw it will change the whole basis of filmmaking. But the BBC lobbies in those days were very strong. And they saw that they still be a real danger. And they put up a tremendous fight. And then if you remembe[…]
[…]. And of course, there was big newspaper stuff for63Elizabeth Furse DRAFT. Tape 1 Side Bfront page and, and I was the heroine, you know. And I was on BBC, and I was on NBC and Ed Murrow had me on all the time. And so of course, they gave me all the time jobs, you know. You see when I arrived my moth[…]
[…]orwich union through the Merton Park Studios pension fund. Then I was out of work for a short while after the studio closed, and I had friends in the BBC projection department, and I told them what I was out of work. And they said, Would I like to join their projection team? And at that particular t[…]
[…] I was the heroine, you know. And I was on BBC, and I was on NBC and Ed Murrow had […]
[…] there weren't any TV companies in those days, just the BBC! Er, no filming was done there, I think a […]