[…] thought I’d get to do anything like this!” We never took off, it’s just on the ground but there he was sitting in the cockpit of a Boeing B-17 bomber, so excited, and I thought ‘I wonder if there is any way we can make a programme in which the viewer almost imagines that’s what they are doing[…]
[…] well as small roles.NS: ...And so the war goes on and the ballet goes on.MD: I’d like to say something about...well this is post war. It’s about the BBC. There was no TV during the war. It started up again in ’46. Although I was still in the ballet company in ‘48/49. We did have a notion of what th[…]
[…]cal school then, in Holborn. And then I was evacuated for a couple of weeks. We got bombed out while I was evacuated down in Kent. A marauding German bomber just dropped some bombs, for fun I think. I saw a light-DB: Where you were in Kent? PM: In Kent. I was sleeping in a bed with two other bo[…]
[…]dvisor so he knew all about it. But, I remember David Kingsley was the...That's right.Managing...Y es.No, yes, Managing Director, he was the Managing Director. And they were already there so I couldn't really say who, who brought them in, but I think Sidney covered that quite clearly and he did a gr[…]
[…]by Katy McGahan, one of the curators in the Non-Fiction unit at the BFI interviewing for the BECTU History Project, Mary Orrom, filmmaker, editor and director. And it's 25th of January 2011. Katy McGahan 0:30 OK Mary Orrom, many thanks for agreeing to do t[…]
[…]ve their talents. Um, and er, I thought about it, and I thought, ‘wait a minute! What do I know – nothing!’ but I listened to the radio and I heard a bomber pilot talking about what it was like to be a bomber pilot, and I thought ‘ah – yes, I’ll write a five-minute script about bombers over Berlin’ […]
[…]ow, where to probably fall on the Instagram six. And I still got six F. Because I was on not on Santa Metro, or down that ship, you know. And now the bomber was around. And he come in. It was very married. It's not that they're not ours. I'm gonna do your bloody cellsUnknown Speaker 29:33 &nbs[…]
[…]t that far! Roy Fowler: What happened? Do you know the details? Andy Worker: Well Sydney moved to Pinewood, Shepherd's Bush was sold to the BBC. Um, I was sent to Islington to close it down, and after about a year of that, Ken Maybank [?] said, "You should go on freelance production," whic[…]
[…] for it or not, never wake up but cope with that. And say people like Roy Jackson, who worked in the business he he was much more of a full animation director. I mean, I don't know quite how much of his works advice. But he did work but he worked. He was doing an animated Lewis Carroll style of work[…]
