[…]s, you know, on the booze. He had to give up drink and some of his homosexual capers and whatnot.Q Talking about Kodak - what about negotiations with BBC. Did you ever get...A No, no. At that time they had appointed this Bill Barnard(?) assigned. There were odd things I did but no negotiations of an[…]
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[…]ouflage schemes for various stations all over the place, and then got a posting first to Grantham into a dreadful place called Louth, then to York to Bomber august where I stayed and worked as a camouflage officer. We were sorry to trouble you officially in the Air Force. We were civilian. I was I w[…]
[…] Sydney moved to Pinewood, Shepherd's Bush was sold to the BBC. Um, I was sent to Islington to close it down, […]
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[…] 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[…]
[…]tures in this country from then on, of which something called Appointment in London, I don't remember, was soon after that.Philip Leacock: That was a Bomber Command picture with Dirk Bogarde. It was the first picture Dirk did where he didn't play a psychotic killer or something like that. He played […]
