[…]We did these Summer Serenades and then I did a series with the show band, Cyril Stapleton's Show Band called The Show Band Show which was designed by Dick Levin. And he'd done it in such a way that on the music stand you could light up show band show and with the camera pulled back on its widest len[…]
[…] Rhododendrons!AL andColin Moffat: [Laugh]Cyril Pennington-Richards: And they had just done, I must tell you this, they had just done 'Moby Dick' at Elstree right?Alan Lawson: Yes.Cyril Pennington-Richards: So they had done the whales...Alan Lawson: Yes, yes.Cyril Pennington[…]
[…] with the whole lot, and I've got the list here of the crews. Normally I went out with what was then known as another silent man, the silent men were Dick Harris, Norman Fisher, Alec Tozer and myself. I don't remember anybody else - we had one or two freelance ones - there was one called Bunny Hutch[…]
[…]? Yes,Speaker 1 23:33 no, I wasn't a great I wasn't a great reader. I suppose ISpeaker 1 23:43 uh, the classic, you know, the Dickinsons. And because father had an enormous library, correct? Not enormous, but I can see it now, all the rooms, bookshelves, and I suppose also th[…]
[…]n 23:30Yes, yes. Now you know I was at Stolls when they opened up the same as you and I've got a very vivid memory of you. When Dick was, I think it was on "Such Is The Law", he was having microphone shadow problems and you just came in and skived the mic. Now as that's the fir[…]
[…] on and Sir Run Run said to him Richard, or Dick as he was called by most people then "If […]
[…] I must tell you this, they had just done 'Moby Dick' at Elstree right? Alan Lawson: Yes. Cyril Pennington-Richards: So […]
[…]n't have things happen. Unmute one or two friends and they'd asked me to write jokes. The first joke ever submitted, I think on a professional basis. Dick Emery who was a big star at the time, I sent some jokes in to the deck Emery show. And I was in Vegas, in Maida Vale in London. And the landlord,[…]
[…]TIME 01:20:34] And he literally phoned Sir Run Run from the office and told him about the production and so on andSir Run Run said to him Richard, or Dick as he was called by most people then “Ifyou say it is a good production and you want to go for it, count us in for fifty percentwhatever the budg[…]
[…]srael. So he knew what reality looked like and he could recreate it. And on Culloden. He was given a very experienced very good BBC camera man called Dick Bush and Dick Bush was interviewed later and said he was given this fresh faced young director to work with. Peter was only about 27 And he looke[…]
