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[…] led the fund-raising team which prevented the Harwich Electric Palace cinema from being demolished in the 1970s. The Palace is […]

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[…] But that's my opinion. But anyway, everything was in the doldrums. Films are in the doldrums everybody was watching telly. They weren't going to the cinema or all the cinemas were being turned into studios. Theatre was failing. Was the was people weren't going I can remember some years after workin[…]

[…]hich I think was why we were so successful in the motion picture industry. We really got to know the customers very well especially, for example, the cinematographers, the people who operate the cameras, and listening to what quality improvements they wanted from the films, and we would build that i[…]

[…]hink because the BBC couldn’t quite make up its mind – I speak in the film area – about whether it should go in for very big movies, compete with the cinema, or whether it should do more Dennis Potter-like things. Clearly Dennis Potter was such a success. There were brilliant writers working at the […]

[…]ees didn’t, I mean they trained on the job.Mm.So it’s interesting [inaudible] to people who have...Mm, that’s right, yes.You worked outside cinema, I mean, obviously for television, but, did you do anything for theatre or...?I worked as a stills photographer, and worked in the theatre then[…]

[…]way, it ran, I think for 11 programmes and we, I wrote the script. So it was around about that time, I think that Tom Sloan, who was also the sort of manager of the light entertainment department, he wasn't the one actually says the head he rung up my agency and said "David Croft makes up his mind, […]

[…]ting room in Baker Street where he came straight towards thecamera and he had a look on his face, a little grin in which he thought if they’re in the cinema watching this they’ll see me sort of thing, he wouldn’t have known but Ithought oh he thinks we might see him. And he, but I can’t remember wha[…]