[…]wn chairman apparently, or telling the other managing directors of ITV, he secretly tried to negotiate a deal where he could buy Dallas away from the BBC. Now in America you get the congressional medal of honour for stealing another show from somebody else, but in England what happened was that appa[…]
[…]er?Speaker 2 34:23 Or did you ever get that close? I think must have a card, really.Unknown Speaker 34:30 He was producer and director.Unknown Speaker 34:31 Was he? Yes, he's a very nice man, and he always thought about the crew a lot. For instance, when we went o[…]
[…] and then, as I say, I left and joined The BBC. But that gave you presumably a general sympathy with the […]
[…] 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[…]
[…]ld be rung or anything because we were all on the stage. So that was about, I was there for about two years and then, as I say, I left and joined The BBC.But that gave you presumably a general sympathy with the lot of the actor?Oh yes, absolutely.[Laughter] And also the thing was very valuable I tho[…]
[…] I was offered a job as assistant dubbing mixer at Lady Ewell's British National. And the same time I'd applied for as assistant recorders job with a BBC. And the two things happen together. And it really was a crossroads because the British National came up said look, we want you to take the job. A[…]
[…]well since and that was a long time ago. She eventually took a job as a buyer, property buyer. Although she is freelance, she is principally with the BBC.R. F. Ah, well that is a very satisfying thing anyway.C. D. She goes under the name of Dorothy Elliott. That was her married name. Apart from that[…]
[…]nging. Anyway my end was just cranking the thing and making sure the exposure was right. And then Mr. Parkinson made a fatal mistake, he hired a director. Hitherto it had all been done by him, he hired this director who said we'll knock this singing fool stuff to six I suppose. Anyway he had an[…]
[…] to London with my family until 1946. 00.53 The first film I ever saw, strangely enough, was Nanook of the […]
[…] the light of the Anschluss. Coming to England she studied film under William Hunter at Dartington College in Devon, before […]
