[…]8.51]If anybody knows it, that was a great little camera, it really was, the quality. So we did that for a while until Brian got a job. He was at the BBC as a runner and projectionist and afterwards he got to be a trainee as a cameraman. And because he was now working and getting a bit more [money] […]
[…]took a sample, you know a film. I said, "Can I make some animated cartoons for you?" You know, "Oh" he says, "No, out of the question." He says, "The BBC could never afford cinema-quality cartoons." He says, "I'll tell you what, why don't you get some puppets, you know, stick your hand up a jumper a[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]come and work for STV in the run up to the next election." Didn't hear anything from David Scott for several months but in the meantime people at the BBC had said, "We would like you to come and work for us!" And so, eventually what happened is I went to work in a freelance capacity with BBC Radio S[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]hat newspaper culture which, fortunately I moved into broadcasting and you really can't do that there. I: Did you go from the Sunday Post to the BBC? R: I did. I had previously, again as a student, applied for a job at Radio Clyde. I had gone in for a couple of hours to get work experience[…]
