Search Results for: Bomber Harris. BBC. Director. Baltic Film Festival First Prize (1994)

[…] Carstairs who was a bit of a joke as a director. Occasionally because we were we were under contract had to […]

[…]with Miss Hornman’s touring company in Manchester and through Miss Eliot who taught me at school I got to know them.  Milton was going to make a film about the Loch Ness monster and they wanted a very unsophisticated Scots girl. Well they couldn’t have found anything more unsophisticated than m[…]

[…]There is some license for exaggeration. DS 2021. The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project.John Halas, animator and film producer, interviewer is Bob Godfrey, the interview was recorded on the 18th July 1990 Side one Bob Godfrey: you once told me you were […]

[…] rather tired of the sea, so I applied to the BBC. They took me on as an engineer, and I was […]

[…]e making programmes and frankly, we didn't really know what we're doing most. Were all not many. And a couple of people came few people came from the BBC. The rest were all new people. So we were learning from scratch.Speaker 1  6:28  And you remember working on down beats company? Yeah, s[…]

[…]t to thank you Peter for taking part in this. So just to start, perhaps you could tell us a little bit about your early career when you went into the film industry?PL: Well I won a scholarship and I didn’t get the eleven-plus, but there was a scholarship available for thirteen-plus and I won it, wit[…]

[…]ut on bioscope shows. Chris Strachan  2:32  That's absolutely right. Yes, they in the days between 1896 and 1909 This is how films were shown throughout most of the land. It was traveling showmen like Charles Thurston with their bioscopes on village greens and shows in villa[…]

[…]y it. I said well, at that time Elvin Jones, I'd told him about what I was doing and he said he was going to sign me up to a 3 play contract with the BBC. And Alan Lawson: He was involved in Z Cars wasn't he Johnny Speight: That's right, Elwyn was and he was head of drama. So I aid to Peter I don't […]

[…]nd said, "Right, John, come back when you want to." And that, actually, was the kind of the ultimate in familyness. And I wouldn't have found that at BBC. I'm positive! Because one of my colleagues, ex-colleagues, unfortunately she had a bad relationship which went AWOL and, although we tried to sto[…]

[…]nd enjoying going to the cinema, not really knowing anything about it. And as I grew up, my father had left the film business as such, and joined the BBC. And although that sounded quite a nice job, I wasn't overly interested in it. And I think like most, maybe not like most. But anyway, I felt I ne[…]