[…]BC employment, if you so wish. After that, you can look around as opportunity occurs. There are very large number of staff postings internally in the BBC. In fact, most of the higher appointments are filled from their own staff. So if you get something which isn't ideal, there's no reason why you sh[…]
[…]on and John Cox was head of sound there, Roy Kellino, cameraman, the directors were Al Parker who afterwards became an agent and Alex Bryce, a Scotch director. I was still in my digs but we used to be able to have wonderful breakfasts there. We used to get in, the usual thing of start at 8.30, and w[…]
[…]eature.Christopher Miles  4:36  Really the, the amount of time that you can actually spend in preparation is I think very valuable with the BBC. So everybody knows what they're doing. There isn't a lot of time to spend on the set as of movies and also the way of getting your own crew wheth[…]
[…]on Hales  37:07  Another film I'm leaving out, that is called Men of the Light Ships. And there was an unprecedented attack, By German dive bombers on a light ship which  was strictly against the rules of war. And the film was made and they reconstructed it and they brought in a man o[…]
[…]'maybe that's what's done in that village'. So from then on I learned to direct, because I had to do it through interpreter, who in effect became the director... saying what was to happen, but it had to be the correct custom and the correct behaviour. So I learned that quick, and they were very succ[…]
[…]ese terrible mistakes happened, we cut to him. I'm trying to remember who it was - somebody who died - a very famous man who did sound things for the BBC.Daphne Shadwell: Not Huw Weldon?Joan Kemp-Welch: No...anyway, it's gone. But it was terribly funny! The only person whobehaved herself w[…]
[…];vessels. Or submarines or any hostile enemy any ship radio back and the petrol bombers would go out and they were fitted with a heavy gun in the nose of&n[…]
[…]ake  27:37  This is with the two lots of students. Yes, yes. Waris Hussein  27:40  I got a call from the BBC. Would I book two seats for the Head of Drama who would like to see it? He came. I didn't see him at all. I booked him into a hotel, he left and I[…]
[…]ker  0:06  The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project.Unknown Speaker  0:13  John Sherman, documentary film producer, filmmaker, interviewer, Alan Lawson, on the 26thUnknown Speaker  0:23  of October,Unknown Speaker  0:26  side one.U[…]
[…]e directors too had ideas on the subject...I mean, [some of the] more creative directors?Peggy Gick: Oh yes! Well you wanted to have a chat with your director...trouble is with some of them to get them to communicate.John Legard: And did you have your favourite lighting cameraman to do your work jus[…]
