[…]with the film side of things so I dealt with that. So, yeah, I was involved in everything from live transmissions of feature films, with two telecine channels back-to-back doing automatic changeovers every 20 minutes or so between reels, and play-ins to the studios, and that sort of things. One oper[…]
[…]find work when we finished the film and I saw an advert in the Guardian for a, this was the birth of, thank god for me, this was a breakthrough, that Channel 4 was starting in 1982 and I saw an, and companies were just starting up and employing thirty people in one go and one of them was Diverse Pro[…]
[…]y, which were about the future of the film industry, which were about the future of television, should we have a second, should the BBC have a second channel, should they have a second channel. What should we do with Channel Four, should we have Channel Four and, you know, political and social and c[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]of producers, particularly in television, are concerned about budgets. In the incredible freelance jobs that we do the one and a quarter million that Channel 4 put up for Four Weddings and a Funeral, which was an horrendous budget, like seventeen million I think, originally. Got its money back, of c[…]
[…]e the chipies had the chippies in and the whole lot, you know, everything. And so and I had, by that time, put it in motion to leave the BBC, because Channel Four had started. And I wanted to start up my own thing. And I knew I was no hope of doing anything outside. Because I wanted to be an indepen[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]he said that he thought it was a great privilege that he'd been selected to run the unit. And that, you know, he regarded himself merely as a sort of channel between us and the authorities, and that he was there to look after us and to protect us from too much ministerial interference, which, in fac[…]
[…]it?Lew Grade : I think there is going to be terrible troubles. I really believe that there is going to be, you know... eventually they talk about 500 channels, but let's assume there was only a hundred. I mean, now on Sky you can get 14 channels from September 1st, plus the four that are on in Engla[…]
[…]binet racks you have now. They were iron racks built with metal panels across and amplifiers somewhere about six or seven feet high - three per channel, all with amplifiers on. And then three racks together called Bay-ex - a term which has gone on, very often referred to a room but it me[…]
