[…]s Bill Salter with the pipe.Fred Tomlin: That's Bill Salter and this is um, what's the director's name? Oh...Marcel Varnel, this is Marcel Varnel the director.Bob Allen: Ah hmm. And the cameraman?Fred Tomlin: That's Arthur Crabtree.Bob Allen: Oh gracious! It is, yes?Fred Tomlin: And of course these […]
[…]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 […]
[…]il McGibbon I used to do most of his programmes and he was well known during the war his programmes such as Pluto which was pipeline under the ocean, Bombers over Berlin, Spitfires over England, all these programmes eminated from Newcastle and I did all the sound and the OBs and the mixing on the mi[…]
BRITISH UNIVERSITIES FILM & VIDEO COUNCIL Interview with EDGAR ANSTEY I think it's interesting as background to consider the extent to which the original dress and philosophy er - was developed in the first instance by him and then er - was moved out, partly by his efforts, partly by the efforts[…]
[…] we all know everything was live. Now that was one set.Now there was another kind of animal programme and that was on film. And it wasn't shot by the BBC. Cecil Madden whose history will already have appeared in these archives was the world's first television producer but he was in a way without a j[…]
[…], it was 'Road Safety For Children', which I wrote and it was made. But that was instance, straight away, not a woman, you couldn't have a woman as a director.Sidney Cole : I suppose things are a little easier nowadays, but it was a hard thing then.Alan ? : Well it's television that's done that real[…]
[…] be there till nine.Were you ever late?I don't think so, I can't remember, except, oh, once...Y es.When I got caught in a snowdrift on the way to A, ABBC. I was driving along, I was, I was in Totteridge Lane.Y es.I started off in Totteridge Lane, well you know what that's like, and suddenly I had to[…]
[…] I wanted to do, I went to St. Martin's for evening classes on set design and actually it's Steven Bundy, I just remember his name, he worked for the BBC. Do you remember him? No..? [laughing] He was a set designer and so I did a year of that so the I had that behind me so I started going... I appli[…]
[…] born at that time, but then I grew up for the rest of the war in the country and did not go back to London with my family until 1946.00.53 The first film I ever saw, strangely enough, was Nanook of the North which I saw quite soon after coming back to London. It was partly because my father was Can[…]
