[…]p; “Essentially … I was waiting for Channel 4 to launch in 82”. I wasn’t made Head of Documentaries at Thames, bizarre because I was clearly the right person, so it was easy to resign an[…]
[…]r two awards for being good at sales - he did the north Wales area - and after that he was promoted to sales manager of the Liverpool branch and in 1948 was promoted again to sales manager of Columbia Pictures and was based in London. So, of course, he brought the family down and he stayed with them[…]
Jocelyn Rickards (JR)Costume DesignerBECTU No.493Interviewer: Roy Fowler (RF)Date 7-8/3/2001 & 5/4/20017 Tapes 7-8/3/2001Side 100:00:00 – 00:17:35 Born 1924, in Melbourne; when she was 11 her family moved to Sydney; at 14 she went to art school where she studied for 6 years; she came from a[…]
[…] nothing. And then of course I resented the interruptions of commercials, in every good production. On of my favourite operas by Wagner is Siegfried. Channel 4 showed the Ring and Siegfried, from the Metropolitan Opera, an expensive production. When it came on, my favourite opera is every five minut[…]
[…]t was the sound camera operator, who was called Reg Marguerites[?]. He was regularly at Shepherd's Bush.Bob Allen: So this was at Shepherd's Bush, 1934?Fred Tomlin: This was 1934 yes that's right, yeah.Bob Allen: And next we've got?Fred Tomlin: Well this is the Will Hay...Bob Allen: Oh yes! Windbag […]
[…] a passionate pilgrim and a loyal and unselfish worker. (Oct 4 1940, p. 339) Ruby Grierson’s death had an enormous […]
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[…], we had a usable result that we had some latitude with and working with Steve Bearman, who’s the colourist now at Silver Salt, we analysed the three channels. You could see straight away when you compared them how, just as a monochrome channel, how faded, how dropped the contrast was in the blue-ye[…]