[…]I think, for the first time that programmes had ever been done in their entirety abroad. There had been programmes from abroad transmitted across the channel by radio links and that sort of thing, but to actually take recording machines abroad and do a programme that was the first Nick Gilbey&n[…]
[…]on. And David Francis was I think one of the first Television-CJ: He was the first TV Officer, yes.MW: - television was coming a couple or three channels anyway from the late‘50s, a torrent of stuff- CJ: That’s right.MW: How did the Archive approach television then? I mean I know it’s prob[…]
[…] very influenced by the scores of these films without perhaps realising it because since then whenever these films were revived thank God they are on Channel 4 usually in the middle of the night and I recalled them now I realise that the music had a powerful effect on me.SPEAKER: M14The musical numb[…]
[…]en seasick in my life, and I felt terrible. And then we got down to Plymouth, and then we turned around and went all the way back again, up the Irish channel and then turned around and went back because it was delayed 24 hours. And I think by that time, I didn't mind. It didn't bother me a bit. I di[…]
[…]ome to the Monseigneur Theatre at Marble Arch and there’ll be a few people on, relating, there will be airmen, there will be various people, swam the channel, people like that and you’ll be the newsboy and you’ll be interviewed by Roy Rich or Elizabeth Cowell and you will relate your vicissitudes”. […]
[…]e Monty’s Double was good.AL In those days you had sound tracks didn’t you?GH You had sound tracks and you had big….you took a thing called a Q channel, a Western Electric. Most of the studio were RCA but our only mobile sound track was in fact Western.AL They were enormous things.GH Yes[…]
[…]was then a third sleeping partner, the accountant, Arthur Morrison. And so I went there in April 77 and took over mixing. Now they had a very old, 16 channel West Rex valve desk, mixing console with only three equalizers. So if you wanted to change something, you had to unpatch it from one patch it […]
[…] perhaps a forerunner of what was to come later.Norman Swallow: And you still kept that view because I was thinking when you mentioned John Ford, the Channel 4 thing you did from the National Film School.Lindsay Anderson: That's right, Clementine. Clementine was the film which way back in about 48, […]
[…]Well I was a film-loader, as I said, at B & D and if you want me to talk about B & D at all, I could, but of course in those days we had main channels with great, huge machines, built you would think in a shipyard, you know, heavy castings and all the rest of it, and er...Alan Lawson : This […]
[…]forgotten about all the time. The chairman shows it to the shareholders meeting. And it is crap. Yes. Whereas we're still talking about j at a spring channel more often. Yes, yes. Yes. And I believe it's still in the lending library. Is it? Yes, yes. For as long as the rails got a lot. Yes. Yes. Cer[…]
