[…]omedy at all, but it became a marvellous comedy. So lies I'm became CO production manager with a chap called Syd Streeter STR weta er, who had been a construction manager and it was his first job. So we were joint production managers on blys spirit, which starred Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, qu[…]
[…]t in the suburbs. We had a house there. And a very nice house and the Mayfair cinema, a very common was being built at the time. During its after its construction. We were still living out there. And I always remember them putting loudspeakers out on the canopy to relay the sound. And oh, no, that i[…]
[…]eliberative going out of your way to making it difficult. I mean, I saw real quick Cooper died. I mean, it we had an assistant who was the son of the construction manager, that metaphor nice boy, nice. Molly'sJohn Taylor 16:52 Yes. We are worse. Yeah. Because you will lose, because when […]
[…]ith George Edgar or Will Hays we used to sit in a room, or the Crazy Gang, we'd just sit in our office.RF: Were some people good at one thing such as construction, and others good at sight gags, other good at dialogue, or was it very much a community effort.VG: It was very much a team effort. Once w[…]
[…]h those qualities consequently, in the programme making, I’m sometimes worried by what I can see as the cheap and easy way of doing something or a misconstruction of something I can see is wrong. Or a misinterpretation by deliberately mis-18:00 editing what somebody has said, and I’m afraid I […]
[…]They used to weigh about eight and a half ounces, and they wanted to get down to about five and a half, something like that. So we had to rethink the construction of whole of the record. Whereas you see, the original Columbia record was a base stock. And then two, what they call P, O, P papers, whic[…]
[…]'s rehearsal!Roy Fowler: Mother's ruin!Joan Kemp-Welch: Much to everybody - I'm sure - their amusement! And I also remember, we had a stage manager and he used the word "bloody" - he used to say "foot-bloody-ball", do you know what I mean? He would use it all the time and I thought this wa[…]
[…]e's brilliant, you know at game shows he's brilliant at variety comedy, the [Mike] Yarwoods and the Morecambe and Wises. But when it comes to written construction, comedy, it's not his scene. He knows what he likes when he sees it and he hears itDMW: 21:48but I'll fight my own ground on this. […]
[…] had just the two stages, but there was a marvellous construction manager called Bert Roberts. And Bert was always saying, "Oh […]
[…]RE FIRST FEW SECONDS OF SPEECHSid Cole 1:43 this copyright interview for the back to history project of Ernie diamond, carpenter and then construction manager. We've been conducted by Sidney Cole and Colin Sorenson. On Tuesday, February the eighth 1994. Ernie, when we were born, andErnie[…]
