Jill Langley

[…]inment history project. The name of the interviewee is Joe Langley. The interview our is Mike deke. On camera is our CO show. The interview number is 415. The date is the 28th of April 2022. And we're filming at her daughter's Claudia's home in Wimbledon.Unknown Speaker  0:23  Okay, Joe, c[…]

Cyril Page

[…]y first shot I had to do, for the television newsreel, with the old mast with the words going round, was to go out in the North...er into the English Channel and join the [name of ship? Pameer?], a big four-masted trading ship that came from Australia, and I came right up the Thames with that, and t[…]

John (Johnny) Goodman

[…]in America called Sandy Frank.” BECTU History Project - Interview No. 388[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2003-11-21Interview Date: 1996-09-04Interviewer: Alan SapperInterviewee: Johnny GoodmanTape 1, Side 1Alan Sapper: This is the BECTU History Project, the file number is 388, the intervie[…]

Bessie Bond (née Span)

[…]a permanent job and eventually they paid over the rate, eventually. But in the early days a lot of the BBC left the BBC and went to ATV and the other channels, you know. But eventually they did pay over the rate and were very good employers, you know on the whole. But, do you know, they wouldn't rec[…]

Robert Scott

[…]which was a lot of money even then! But that's because the kit was so expensive! The Vision Mixer alone was three hundred thousand, I think, and each channel that we did, the additional effects device was over a hundred thousand. So a million was easy to spend! I: Whose money was it? Who was fu[…]

Jim Whittell

[…]that I have.  And I’d like to start by saying well you come from up north don’t you, you’re a Lancastrian, is that the correct description?00:00:48        JIM WHITTELL:  I’m actually a Cheshire cat.00:00:50        Q:&nbs[…]

Cornel Lucas

[…]ertainment History ProjectCornel  Lucas – Transcribed by Linda Marchant28/09/2005Copyright interview – BECTU history project - Interview number 543.Recording 15.05 (AP – anonymous person audience)Interviewer: Cornel we’re here at BECTU headquarters . Thanks for coming to BECTU for this intervie[…]

Dicky Leeman

[…]s invariably finished with a close-up of the pack, not some glamorous girl.Rodney Giesler: What are your feelings about the absolute proliferation of channels now, and satellite programmes and so on?Dicky Leeman: Well, it's going to be tough I think on sportsmen unless they can afford satellite and […]

Joy Batchelor

[…]le films, and they get shown in the students' section of the parent ASIFA body, and some of them are very good indeed. So it's gone into conventional channels of teaching and training, which is as it should be. [pause] And even the film school, the International Film School, they used to have an ani[…]

L P (Bill) Williams

BECTU History Project - Interview No. 381 [Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2001-07-24Interview Date: 1993-08-12Interviewer: Rodney GieslerInterviewee: L.P. WilliamsTape 1, Side 1 L.P. Williams : It's not always easy to remember these things.Rodney Giesler : Could you tell me when you w[…]
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