[…]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[…]
[…]lot of debates, a lot of interest, and actually had something to do with the fact that when Jeremy Isaacs was looking for a Head of Drama for his new channel for which wanted to get into these areas, his choice was David Rose. And so that was about the early, the early 80s. And I followed David to C[…]
[…]ossible connections ...Jonathan Balcon  18:30  Daniel, as you know, I've said to Silver Apples that of course I would raise no objection if Channel 4 want Daniel to do the commentary on this programme they are going to make, from a commercial point of view it seems obvious an obvious thing[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]rted this other business, it was very successful. And then they made a mint of money and I went over there is the idea of working on the sound on the channel disk. Yes. I would do in sound just the turntables ever hear out Yes. And That didn't last very long. Did itno that lasted for a period a[…]
[…]it doesn't really matter pass probably because quite a few features were shot on 16 shot on Super six.Speaker 2  1:55:40  I think it was my channel, I think. Oh, no, by mouth, okay. Okay, so it did work on nil by mouth. Okay, funnily enough as but I was only syncing up. What was I doing? r[…]
[…]d to say to you as quite important during that period at Metrocolor, again it all tended to happen in the 1980s, early-1980s, but it was the birth of Channel Four and the birth of Film Four. Now Film Four is still going today, but Channel Four was recently set up and they, I think it was David Rose […]
[…]hat's being made. For example a film that we certainly would like to get, certainly for theatrical and non-theatrical release is a film being made by Channel Four [chuckles]! We found it out in Milan - on the Paris Commune of 1871 and they're doing a full dramatisation. Yes one - I've been going to […]
[…]know Cesar Romero. I remember on one of the features, it was shot on a boat, I believe it belonged to a film director, and there was going across the channel to France, to a place calledSpeaker 1  1:32  there was one lot of rushes I was showing that involved a boat, and I believed it belon[…]
