[…]d to ABC Television as Thames originally was, or it was, Thames was the merger of two companies, ABC and Rediffusion, and I had applied for a trainee Director's scheme that they ran, that ABC Television ran. It was for theatre directors actually but I was an unsuccessful applicant. I was on the shor[…]
[…]the president of the union then was Anthony Asquith who was a very prominent film maker, he was kind of second only to Hitchcock really as an English director in the Thirties and was very active and of course, he came from that patrician political family the Asquith family so he had friends in high […]
[…]diting as well around that sort of yeah. Well in those days those people a director very often customarily edited his own film. His or her own film. So tha[…]
GUIDO COENCopyright is invested in ACTT History Project.Guido Coen, producer and director of Twickenham Film Studios - interviewer Sid Cole .SIDE 1, TAPE 1SC: We always ask about origins, where were you born.GC : I was born in Milan, in 1915 which makes me 73, I don't feel it but its there.SC : And […]
[…]alled the junior maintenance engineer and I was sent to Newcastle-on-Tyne to the studio centre and I went there in 1936 when Sir John Reith was still director general and Noel Astbridge was chief engineer. And I went into digs up there and had a very happy time up there I should go back a little. wh[…]
[…] through the film. And I'd never experienced that with a director before. We just had a very bad relationship. But […]
[…] went there in 1936 when Sir John Reith was still director general and Noel Astbridge was chief engineer. And I […]
[…]ch the episode, and you know it's going wrong. But you can still enjoy it and the comedy is great. But for the people, the stars of the show, and the director, it must have been a nightmare. So Tony finally persuades the BBC that they can that they should start to record is worth mentioning, of cour[…]
[…] Speaker 29:10 That was a very funny story on that one in Bangor, Maine. People were just as you saying I mean was dg for the general DVM director variety and they suddenly fell everybody was giving themselves initials, whether deserved or otherwise. So they sent the director around sayi[…]
