[…]ame of the interviewee is Ronald grant. The interviewer is Mike dick, on cameras, John Luton. The interview number is eight to nine. The date is the 24th of April 2023. And we're filming at the cinema Museum in Kensington, London, which houses the most remarkable collection of cinema memorabilia col[…]
[…]g where there is a Chinese insurrection or something, which I really can't remember the details now.Roy Fowler: Let me say this, the film was on Channel 4 two weeks ago, at three o'clock in the morning.E.M. Smedley-Aston: Two weeks ago, oh I saw it about two years ago on Channel 4 I think […]
Tilly Day (continuity) 1903-1994by admin — last modified Jul 28, 2008 04:32 PMBIOGRAPHY: Tilly Day worked on over 300 British films between the 1920s and 1970s, most particularly as ‘continuity girl’. Her career began at Walthamstow Studios in the 1917 and she received her first credit in […]
[…]ny which I think expanded and gottaken over; Got bigger and bigger. You were working not just with the BBC you knowgetting commissions from different Channels. How was that?JBWell that was very interesting and the first commission took a long time to get. I mean it'squite a dicey thing; you leave a […]
[…]ildren’s programmes - um - and then Edward Barnes - um - um01:27:30JOE: I think it was Monica SimmsQ: Yeah probably she went on to be - Controller of Channel - um - Radio Four and all sorts01:27:36JOE: I think it - yeah I think it was her - she had written it more or less - and produced it as wellQ:[…]
[…]ut a very wide swathe or deep drift oftalent that we had. A lot of them moved on from Granada like Jeremy Isaacs who went toRediffusion, BBC; Thames, Channel Four. Graham McDonald who became something veryimportant in the BBC, Mark Shivas, John Birch who is now the Deputy Director General, neverthou[…]
[…] talking again about it, on camera, the, kind of, his approach to colour or that film’s use of colour?CM: David Rose, who’s commissioning producer at Channel 4, asked me if I would go to Ireland to work with Neil Jordan. He said it’s a script that was being partly produced by John Boorman and he tol[…]
[…] And you say well if it's the sort of film they'll take that action then we will get very little out of it. They went no longer. We ll they chose the channel over those days. It's changed in those days it was true. So no one knows for sure. We're just giving a free program free half an hour's worth […]
[…]he look like?Muriel Box : Very famous. He went to Hollywood and made his name, he was very famous.Sidney Cole : Now this would have been about 1933, 34?Muriel Box : No '41 or 2.Alan ? : Yes, 'On Approval'?Muriel Box : Yes, that's right.Sidney Cole : That would be Clive Brook.Muriel Box : Yes, that's[…]
[…]seemed a lot, and the direction of policy began to change. Actually it quite quickly began to change. The other thing that happened was the coming of Channel Four, which opened up new possibilities as the other ones were closing down, and in a sense inaugurated a very very interesting era when peopl[…]
