[…] were bands and a magazine and some plays. And then these girls said, 'well, we're fed up with doing plays'. And I said, 'well, let's make a film for Channel 4'. And I knew nothing about making films, I didn't know you were supposed to get a commission (laughter). I just thought, Channel 4 had start[…]
[…]t is purely, more or less, a video unit.Film hardly comes into it at all, probably only if it's commissioned.They have just made a film promoting the Channel Tunnel which is by theChannel Tunnel Consortium and that is made on film. But they'rebasically down to video, they don't even possess a cuttin[…]
[…]: And so we had new... BT-H redesigned the equipment, lovely quality stuff it was. We had to have separate amplifiers and everything for all the four channels, plus the optical tracks of an ordinary programme. And we had to adapt the projectors so that underneath the top spool was the sound pull-thr[…]
[…]they were worried about the giggly girlish things and they had come out of.....RF: Playing Hockey?LK: Yes and when you heard the guns from across the channel, there was Dunkirk and so on and so forth, they were not very impressed and we were terrified, my sister and I, because we thought, you know, […]
[…]Europe every year for the grand prix motor racing which he loved and he filmed it in 16mm which was quite a thing in those days. I'm talking about 1934 or something like that, maybe 33. I got terrible interested in that and he gave me one of his old cameras, a 16mm Bell and Howell and that's how I s[…]
[…]at was an eye opener I can tell you. [Laughter] [TIME 02:09:49]  So, I did that but that was while I was still at the BBC and then when I left, Channel 4 asked me if I would go and have a look at their television library and so I went there. In fact, the boss of the part of Channel 4 tha[…]
[…]r best didn't didn't go down well on television. And in any case, they were rather neglected by television and, and refused, generally refused by the channels. So you couldn't say that we had a significant outlet on television at all. So that drove us that there remains what was called non theatrica[…]
[…]you care then to sketch how you ended up in SW1 in London, in...?Well I married an Englishman, in Nineteen..., 1930, I married that English man in 1934 – ‘33.Was this to escape Germany?No, that was because I, I was working politically as a young Communist in Paris against Hitler. I was going into Ge[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 22[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2002-07-08Interview Date: 1996-04-11Interviewer: Arthur GrahamInterviewee: A.A. 'Tubby' Englander[Tape1, Side 1]Arthur Graham: ...A.A. Englander. Name of the interviewer: Arthur Graham. The copyright of this recording is in[…]
