Search Results for: Bomber Harris. BBC. Director. Baltic Film Festival First Prize (1994)

[…];vessels. Or submarines or any hostile enemy any ship radio back and the petrol bombers would go out and they were fitted with a heavy gun in the nose of&n[…]

[…] - 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 programme that they used to produce up at Alexandra Palace and it was the first […]

[…] called Bill Ward who was a senior Producer at the BBC. And of course, when ATV started he was the man […]

[…]mandy we had a Boston which we used for filming all sorts of strikes around the time of , it could operate with the other Bostons, it was a low level bomber.We made hundreds of aircraft recognition films. Funny enough it was developed by Technicolor by George Gunn, didn't he get an OBE for it, he di[…]

[…]frames long. And it was very, very interesting to, for a young person, to have the experience of examining every shot of a film by such a very famous director. Gloria Sachs  12:14  How old were you at this time? Margaret Thomson  12:16  I was 25. Gloria Sachs  […]

[…]letely took hold of me and in my head deciding, atthe age of 15 deciding what to do when I left school there were threechoices, films, theatre or the BBC. Not acting, appearing but on theproduction side. Films where always favourite. theatre was a lot of nightwork which I didn't fancy and the BBC wa[…]

[…] lessons. SF: Yes. And risen through the ranks-ish in the BBC. SF: Yes. Started as a floor manager. SF: Yes. And […]

[…]on’t get a lot of parts with an accent.SF: No, of course, not.So he’d gone and taken elocution lessons.SF: Yes.And risen through the ranks-ish in the BBC.SF: Yes.Started as a floor manager.SF: Yes.And worked in the BBC. So when I met him he’d just made a little film, I think I was about... How old w[…]

[…]s the Chair. There was- and the radio one came up and I put myself forward for election. There was about six or seven candidates. One of them was Sue Harris. I won the election. So, I went on full, I officially could have had full-time release. I never actually took it, because I told you, know what[…]

[…]ake  27:37  This is with the two lots of students. Yes, yes. Waris Hussein  27:40  I got a call from the BBC. Would I book two seats for the Head of Drama who would like to see it? He came. I didn't see him at all. I booked him into a hotel, he left and I[…]