[…]nbsp; The cameraman, the the only cameraman in Birmingham, was an old bloke who long ago ought to have been pensioned off. He'd been he'd been making commercials up and down Wardour Street for 30 years I should think and he was well over fifty and he was absolutely bloody minded and in addition to t[…]
[…] for that reason, the standard of stuff that they show is, is much better than most of the local things, which, because things are not interrupted by commercials. Whereas most American television I remember when I was in Edmonton, for some reason or other. And this is the first time I was outside To[…]
[…]type of films were you making?SAMUELSON: All documentaries (er hum) and this is another thing I think about that .............of course there were no commercials until the tail end of my career as a camera man. Now, commercials are perhaps the most important part of our industry as far as film techn[…]
[…] the [unintelligible] with all the singing and rehearsals going on, it was really magic. And then what did I do? I can’t remember, oh I started doing commercials, that’s right, everybody, all the blokes, that had been at ABC as it was then which is now Thames, which doesn’t exist anymore does it?&nb[…]
[…]R. F. Yes, but when I say now I mean at that time.C. D. Well gradually, it seemed to phase it out as it were. I finished up doing television and then commercials.R. F. Did you enjoy doing either one? Commercials or television.C. D. I can’t say I did at all, no. The . . . . . . . commercials are the […]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 228[Copyright BECTU] Transcription Date: 2002-03-04Interview Date: 1991-11-25Interviewer: Roy Fowler Interviewee: Joan Kemp-WelchTape 1, Side 1Roy Fowler: '91 and we're at John P. Hamilton's in Paddington and we have a very distinguished lady, Joan Kem[…]
[…] play like Andre Obey, a Belgian writer. The Sacrifice to the Wind, 2 hour plays, because the maximum duration of a play was two hours, that included commercials which until then did not eX1St.Norman Swallow: You talked about Nigel Kneale, are there any other scriptwriters you worked with you would […]
[…]e made he made not only the undefeated, he made a wonderful film about a Welsh minor, David. And then Paul Dixon was, I think, lured away into making commercials or involved is something in Hollywood, I can't remember now. But the thing was, it seemed to me that Paul was was going away from a region[…]
[…]for years afterwards, it stopped after about five or six years! [Break in Recording]Alan Lawson: Pennington-Richards, Side Four. Now you've made commercials haven't you?Cyril Pennington-Richards: Of my own, I have made commercials, yes, I did two.Alan Lawson: Television commercials.Cy[…]
[…]u talk about New York New York and New York here and here to New York. Exactly the same. I've never noticed any difference.QUESTION Have you done any commercials at all.OSSIE MORRIS Never done a commercial in my life. Well I've never done anything for television. I've never done anything for a[…]
