[…] [over interviewee] Oh yes, yeah.David Prosser: ...T Class...flyer...Er...T Class....Alan Lawson: Yachts.David Prosser: T Class yachts in the Bristol Channel off Swansea, so I knew a bit about the Navy from that.... and that was at a very early age.Alan Lawson: Was your father was... was Navy was he[…]
[…]ovely sunny weather in a calm, calm river. And halfway through the sequence, the sun went in. The wind came up and the Thames looked like the English Channel. And for three days, the unit set on their backsides doing nothing. And I began to get nervous even in all right. Well, they didn't. They didn[…]
[…] couple of years' time and you should get ready for channel 9." And I thought to myself, "Fat lot of […]
[…] were bands and a magazine and some plays. And then these girls said, 'well, we're fed up with doing plays'. And I said, 'well, let's make a film for Channel 4'. And I knew nothing about making films, I didn't know you were supposed to get a commission (laughter). I just thought, Channel 4 had start[…]
[…]: And so we had new... BT-H redesigned the equipment, lovely quality stuff it was. We had to have separate amplifiers and everything for all the four channels, plus the optical tracks of an ordinary programme. And we had to adapt the projectors so that underneath the top spool was the sound pull-thr[…]
[…]wn Speaker 48:19 That was just a dummy. IRoy Fowler 48:21 think we know, no, actually, we've crossed over. You're on the left channel. I'm on the right,Unknown Speaker 48:33 about where there,Roy Fowler 48:35 yeah, it's fine anyway. Yeah, pick up. Sorr[…]
[…] was to go out in the North...er into the English Channel and join the [name of ship? Pameer?], a big […]
[…]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[…]
[…]nobody had noticed. But the critics of course gave me a right panning I think, because it was such a bad play.Yes. Well of course there were only two channels then so everything was reviewed, I suppose.DS: Oh, everything. But then...JPH: Especially by Peter Black who hated Rediffusion.I want to[…]
[…]u know, it was was before. This was in the late 70s. This was 76 where I was at Edinburgh, 7879 and 1980 at the film festival, and it was just before Channel Four started, and just before there began to be an independent film sectorMike Dick 27:16 the next phase. The other thing was quit[…]
