[…] 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 […]
[…]her. He was very good - he was on close-ups.Fowler/Lawson: What about Guy Green?Bill Girdlestone: I never did a picture with Guy, only as a director. Lovely, oh what a lovely boy. Iliked his work, he did that army film, didn't he.Fowler/Lawson: What do you think are the qualities of a[…]
[…] that was on film. And it wasn't shot by the BBC. Cecil Madden whose history will already have appeared in these […]
[…] I never did a picture with Guy, only as a director. Lovely, oh what a lovely boy. I liked his work, […]
[…]ect, on 16 February 2018. So, thank you for agreeing to take part in this Simon. To begin with if we could talk a little bit about your background in film and photography, and how that really started.SL: Sure. I mean I was always into photography and film. I went to art school, studying experimental[…]
[…]er's elder brother had come over to England to see the grave of his son, who was also in he was in the New Zealand Air Force had come over here was a bomber pilot and crashed on on takeoff at a station somewhere in Oxford, and was buried in our local churches St. Peter's tankersley. And he came over[…]
[…]elor: He was the cameraman, he was gorgeous. And in fact the only one of that bunch who did anything afterwards, apart from me.Kay Mander: Were these films for cinema?Joy Batchelor: Yes they were, but they only had a short life and a gay one. He had very good connections, this bloke, and our film - […]
[…]t was. Well and there wasn’t any way for me to get out of it really and so I, Itook the way out this way out. I married a chap called Alex, Alexander Harris.Mm, mm.He was twenty-three.Y es.And he worked on an adjoining island.Y es.And father of my daughter there.[Laughter] Daddy’s daughter yes.Yes t[…]
