[…]got to the cutting room it would be labelled ‘This is Derek Hart on Black Country football teams’, ‘This is Fyfe Robertson on the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal.’ Once it was labelled and they knew what it was they could cut it because it was all formula shot. It was extremely economical and very very li[…]
[…] don’t forget , was the year after Suez. [The Suez Canal crisis. DS]. England was in a state of tremendous […]
[…] sent out to India, where he was in charge of the Bombay Dockyard, and we went out on the first ship the Cape Town Castle which went through the Suez Canal and it was the very first time I had seen a banana because of course I had been a wartime baby, and never seen anything like that before, so qui[…]
[…]era. We worked on a quite a series for Granada. This camera was coming in on weekends to for maintenance. And it was something like a 12 weeks on the Canal system episode series based on that British canals. And we were measuring the wear practising because unlike the Germans hadn't yet entered in t[…]
[…]hat's just a shot. That's me and so full fig in my last parish one of the things that the family and I have greatly enjoyed we got very involved with canals and I we had a series of ever increasing secondhand boats and eventually I commissioned the building of the steel worker this hole and then fit[…]
[…] turned up one day and er...Oh no, this was at Canal Buildings. We'd...called up the first Press Conference. We arrived […]
[…]ere organised. And Stockwell got to know...General Stockwell was in charge. He got to know this, and he turned up one day and er...Oh no, this was at Canal Buildings. We'd...called up the first Press Conference. We arrived up...I had about nine in the car, all sitting on the hood, with the back, and[…]
[…]ences to cut - only three or four shots, and I remember agonising all day on where to put the cut between the wide-angle of the barge coming down the canal and the close shot, you know I mean … and you ended up getting a credit too, which was even stranger, there was Woman’s Hour … NS Edi[…]
[…]ghthe communications weren't so good, was more central, Manchester was very much associated withLancashire and the West, but in the end we found this canal basin with a fringe of houses around it,five acres - and after some negotiation we bought it for £80,000. In the houses around the canalpeople w[…]
[…] and the West, but in the end we found this canal basin with a fringe of houses around it, five […]
