[…]e of this was cleared with our Head Office or 20th Century Fox who only found out about it when the newspaper coverage reached them through the usual channels. The night itself provided a full house and while Ted was out front of the curtain talking about the charity that would be benefiting, I was […]
[…] very influenced by the scores of these films without perhaps realising it because since then whenever these films were revived thank God they are on Channel 4 usually in the middle of the night and I recalled them now I realise that the music had a powerful effect on me.SPEAKER: M14The musical numb[…]
[…] appointment to see my lawyer then, I have to see my lawyer about my will. So, I’m not sure what days he isn’t going to be. And he’s in a court case, Channel 4 court case, something to do with, some programme they showed, and that could go into two days, so it’s possible that, if it does I’d have Tu[…]
[…]on. And David Francis was I think one of the first Television-CJ: He was the first TV Officer, yes.MW: - television was coming a couple or three channels anyway from the late‘50s, a torrent of stuff- CJ: That’s right.MW: How did the Archive approach television then? I mean I know it’s prob[…]
[…] off -air, officially, all BBC material and, by negotiation eventually, Channel 4 and =TV , and in fact Channel 4 […]
[…]they had to develop those technical resources that they had full command of which was disc recording. So there were enormous number of disc recording channels created during the war in order to service those exiled broadcasters. At the end of the war the BBC found itself lagging far behind in that a[…]
[…] on the what do you call the MTBS? That's right, empty bees, the very fast boats were armed, and they used to meet the E boats on German side and the channel somewhere. And then they knew each other, because they always had to listen in. And I was taken along so I can listen in, not only photograph,[…]
[…]to be. But I've done a lot of commercials in my time but that was the most concentrated period. I mean I did a commercial with John Firman bridges on Channel Ferris wheel as memory of the Kennedy film censor. Nice man. James I enjoyed working with him. But when you work in commercials full time ther[…]
[…]interesting bit to me was the first sequence on marine radar ever used in a public film, the word military films of course, but this was crossing the channel in the maid of Orleans with Captain Larkins. We had a week to shoot this sequence, which in the end was vice president about six, seven minute[…]
[…]ion because I wanted to see what TV was like all. Yes, TV. And every time the action started, that'd be a break for commercials. And I tried American channels, they were worse. I mean, there was sort of shouted commercials almost. And really, it wasn't worth having do anything Dijon at all. One thin[…]
