[…] think a little bit more difficult for me because I was, I had been approached by ICM who are very good agents, to do film work and I’d started to do commercials and, I can’t remember again the chronology but I did American Friends which was a feature film, so the balance of these things was difficu[…]
[…]tried not very successfully I must admit to broaden the, the areas of, mm, interviewees. Mm, we’ve never done pop promos for example. We’ve only done commercials incidentally whereas commercials are, you know, a vitally important industry, they’ve kept the industry going and it’s essentially they or[…]
[…], did you make any mistakes with something being thrown into it? And it's a couple of things I can say. Yeah, so I was thrown in at the deep end. And commercials were very high powered fast, you know, very fast. And I remember there was one kind of showing, we had screening. And the producers asked […]
[…] But I said it is absolutely incredible to me. But the one possible moment which was vaguely interesting. You managed to cut out to fit in your commercials.Alan Legard 39:40 what sort of reply Did you get to that?Richard Marden 39:43 I think they just said we'll take no[…]
[…]gain proper studio experience, indeed learned to pull focus properly. However, I had some stroke of luck about that time, and I started to operate on commercials then, then the industry went fut, you may remember that about 1968, there was some change in the foreign exchange deal with America. And t[…]
[…]ilms we did a lot of war material, instructional films for the forces, propaganda films, and what we used to call Food Flashes. They're just like the commercials nowadays, but they only lasted about a minute or so. And they were shown on the cinema screen - sort of how to make the best of your food […]
John Ammonds Side 1John P. Hamilton 0:01 The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Our subject today is John Ammonds - A M M O N D S. Television producer director, ex-BBC TV, Thames TV, London Weekend Television, now retired. The interviewer […]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 328 [Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2002-03-02Interview Date: 1994-06-08Interviewer: Rodney GieslerInterviewee: John HogarthTape 1, Side 1 Rodney Giesler : Right, this is an interview with Mr John Hogarth by Rodney Giesler on the 8th June 1994. Ca[…]
