[…]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 […]
[…]kind of see that's how ITV used to be. The change in balance happened when the advertising market started to split up when the resource wasn't there. Channel Four didn't have a big impact. Channel Five, you could start to see it. All the satellite channels definitely eroded the marketplace and with […]
[…]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[…]
[…] a radio and television, so we could get television sound but we hadn’t got television picture. Anyway, we turned the sound on to the television channel and they were playing music, the BBC were playing music. I mean television used to break down every night in those days so, you know. And we t[…]
[…]just slide off I couldn’t hold. [Laughter] But anyhow I kicked a very large space, I was going so fastthat I got right out in to the thin part in the channel you see, I was trying to sort of fight my way back to some hard ice. And some, somebody, a young man was walking along on the banks in the, on[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]cause Virgilio was clapper as well. John Sharples was a great boffin as you had to be. There was the company radio station that handled ail the telex channels and so on, so you had some mechanics there. You got to know who in the company could fix things. John was a marvellous technician. I've known[…]
[…], 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 […]
