[…] [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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]stry has made a mistake going over to the other.But...I know economics might come into it but...The Americans are sorry they got rid of an imbibition channel. They, they admitted thateventually, they wished they’d kept one transfer machine.I think the Chinese have got the best of the deal.Oh yes, ye[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]n quite interesting archive material and those actors of those days. Oh,Richard Marden  22:22  indeed. BecauseAlan Legard  22:25  Channel FourRichard Marden  22:27  actors have they hadAlan Legard  22:29  that in the past, haven't they within complete films? T[…]
[…]nocuous by degaussing, but the acoustic mine had just then appeared too. So, the trawler ahead of us was flying the red sign that it was sweeping the channel. And anyway, we went, without any event at all, we got up to Methil. And...the depressing thing about it was that it was so desperately monoto[…]
[…]g. And true and true, is anyway, so please set up productions went on and prospered reasonably well, with various sponsored films. And of course, now Channel Four had started up. So independents who had been making sponsored films, of course tried to clamber on the bandwagon, together with people wh[…]
[…]d just went straight up straight in and never came back so we had to abandon the whole thing, the carrier then, because we were going up and down the channel and this captain had to corne back and look for that wreckage of the piano in case it got confused with the wreckage of the aircraft they were[…]
[…]rom the network or reassembled the network and the local station, between the network and the local station, so we were all in effect part of WCBS TV channel 2 New York City and the CBS Television Network. Rodney Giesler:So you were going from coast to coast were you?Roy Fowler:No, no, no, no t[…]
