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[…] pretty famous at the expense of the people who count, the players, I mean, the players and the writers, the players and the writers. The most that a director should be, is how to present what the player interprets from the script, most effectively. The greatest theatre of my time, with all due resp[…]

[…]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[…]

[…] went there in 1936 when Sir John Reith was still director general and Noel Astbridge was chief engineer. And I […]

[…] Carstairs who was a bit of a joke as a director. Occasionally because we were we were under contract had […]

[…]t I was always struck by how unflappable they were in the gallery in those days because it was two minutes to air and the lights are flashing and the director is running through the running order and giving [unintelligible] and checking “Has any film arrived yet?” and you’re replying “No, […]

[…]ed to get a job?Norman Fisher: Well I had a rich aunt who knew Sir Gordon Craig, as a matter of fact, and through his influence, he then was managing director of Movietone, through his influence I had my first job. It was always considered that one started off in the labs. So I did a spell in the la[…]