[…]ebody had to run down to the canteen and he went boom, boom, boom [Peter demonstrates – they laugh] And I later worked with him doing Sandeman Port. [Commercials. DS] DB: Oh. That wasn’t at Shepperton.PM: We did about six of those. That wasn’t Shepperton, no. Some little studio. Can’t remember.[…]
Mike Hodges 0:00 This is a recording of an interview with Mike Hodges, recorded by Rodney Giesler on the third of March 1998, in Blandford Forum Dorset for the BECTU Oral History Archive, Reel oneRodney Giesler 0:22 Right So Mike, can you tell me when you were born and a bit […]
[…]And I said, right. That's it. I mean, forget it. I'll just concentrate on doing what I know how to do and to do that. And then it happened to me that commercials I went to France. And they all saying to me, you know, we'd like you to direct it to direct. But what they're really looking for all the t[…]
[…]terial. A little later when Arthur Elton film centre and shell went to AI as the head of public information here and I planned a series of one minute commercials on the great inventors of the electrical and electronic age. On Graham Bell, for example, Edison and so forth, one minute potted documenta[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 118[Copyright BECTU] Transcription Date: 1998-12-12Interview Date: ??? Interviewer: Ralph Bond ?Interviewee: Ivor Montagu NB: This is evidently the transcript of the soundtrack of a filmed interview with Ivor Montagu (details not given on tap[…]
[…]e cameraman down have been talking about people like Desmond Dickinson, with Georges parineau with many, many directors, often on second units and on commercials or and on those early days for Rediffusion on television material, sometimes an operator, occasionally as a cameraman, doing again, occasi[…]
[…]ct in what it has to say but then so is the book that's what the book is about.Alan Lawson 3:17 I believe you did get involved making commercials.Dallas Bower 3:20 Yes, I did. Alan Lawson 3:21 In the early days of television commercials wasn[…]
[…] quite a few of...I don't know they were the first commercials but they were quite extraordinary commerc ials, namely they […]
