[…]d in Margate until the war; as a child DW would got to the cinema every week; very little of his early life had anything to do with his career in the film industry, when he left the army in 1947 he knew he didn’t want to work in an office; Southern Rail had a small film unit for training under Water[…]
[…]on office. And I was introduced. And then he said, right, can we get started? And I thought, Oh,Unknown Speaker 59:16 of course. He's the director. And he liked to dictate with you typing straight on as he said it, which I hate. I hated that. And I still would. Because you know, in those[…]
[…] who actually make the programs and sell them to the BBC. But. The question is you had the rights to the […]
[…] programmes for them. People like Acme?productions or you know Barney Straw? production companies who actually make the programs and sell them to the BBC. But. The question is you had the rights to the material . It might be the BBC where it might be the production company. It might be a bit of each[…]
[…]hing of writing just ahead of the camera. The assistant director would come up and say, "got any pages for Mr. Elvey down there" - Maurice Elvey, the director. Anyway, one day Claude Rains came up to my office, and he said "Charles, have you noticed this girl Jane Baxter who's playing the second par[…]
[…] No, oh dear, what was his name? A director, film director. Oh God, I'll forget my own name next. Anyway, there […]
[…]nt was Purchased Programmes Department.One of my assistants was a woman who is now a woman who is in a leading position in commercial television, Ann Harris. Have you heard the name, she was a financial genius. She would say it’s no good Cartier selecting an expensive picture, I cannot pay for it.No[…]
Interview with Marion GriersonInterviewer: Margaret Thompson MT: This is Margaret Thompson interviewing Marion Grierson; documentary film director, editor reporter, literary editor and writer.these were the professions that she followed in the early years of documentary filmmaking. She later we[…]
[…]ggested why didn’t I go to the BBC, you know, you can work your way up from whatever. So I took a secretarial course and then didn’t get a job at the BBC.Sheila Whitaker Page 7[10:11]SF: Did not get a job with them? Sods.Well, I walked in and the Personnel Officer who was, I mean you could tell[…]
