[…]had three heads plus the projector. In other words, we could handle four tracks. Some of this was done was making up loops, obviously, you'd have one channel where you didn't want actual synchronisation, just background, you'd have a loop going round and round reproducing.Stephen Peet 35:44 &n[…]
[…]trum when when, and I've also worked for major companies for BBC for all the most of the ITV companies before that when they were still in existence, channel for independence. And that's, that's, that's who I am. I was born in 1940. So I'm a war baby.Unknown Speaker 1:23 We moved around […]
[…]nish the show, we used to go over to what was the name of the club was it was alien Hall what was it for Portland Portland squares and it was the BBC channels through there just after the California Mr. Club thing you know,Unknown Speaker 5:52 turned us to the BBC closed Yes, it was righ[…]
[…] and honours and things like that. Have you had any [inaudible]?Well, I’m a Fellow of the Royal College of Art, and, I’ve got a BAFTA.For?A Channel 4 film Cutting Edge: Casualties.Ah, OK. And your parents did what? It’s sort of relevant.[laughs] My father was in the Army, and, Me[…]
[…]t Angel. And, obviously... At least he did approach me, and I went to meet this company Art Angel, who invested a lot in art. And they got money from Channel 4 to make a film, and they got, Mike Figgis directed it. And they wouldn’t employ, they would not pay me or my miner friend, Terry Dunn, who h[…]
[…] men and camera equipment. This was the way we worked. When I left, satellites werecoming into their own and, as I say, I went back to - I went round Channel 4 with Peter Sissonsand my mind boggled - I had been away about a year and a half - and I just didn't know wherewas. I mean, the news room loo[…]
[…]ecause I appeared to be a very willing, running-type assistant, they put me with Jack Lee on his first film, which was to be shot in Dover and on the channel during the Battle of Britain. It was called The Pilot is Safe, it was a five-minuter, and it was about the air-sea rescue boats. And I went wi[…]
[…]interesting bit to me was the first sequence on marine radar ever used in a public film, the word military films of course, but this was crossing the channel in the maid of Orleans with Captain Larkins. We had a week to shoot this sequence, which in the end was vice president about six, seven minute[…]
[…], you see. What had happened, these fellas were filling up the Jerry cans and just throwing them down. Now there's a pipeline coming right across the channel and round to Normandy and right up, you know, and the Jerry cans were - well there weren't enough Jerry cans by that time. It did tell you in […]
[…] was due to be demobilised and I reckoned I knew the date that I should come out and nothing happened. So I went across to see a Wing Commander Channel 9 in personnel in the air Ministry and I said, “Oi, what’s happened?” He said, “You’re a PDO in the regular Air Force,” and I said, “I’m not i[…]
