[…]C Supremo and the Director of General but then let television have its own – what today we’d call a managing director and radio have its own managing director. And, in fact, those titles came in much later when McKenzie did that report on the BBC. But, Norman had this idea but he got abs[…]
[…] Wilson who was a very big shot as a writer, producer. And Carey had a charming manner, and he used […]
[…]st programme I did, directed was shit! Forgive the word but, sorry! And I'll tell you why it was shit because I was thinking about being a television director. The second programme I did was an awful lot better because I just sat there and I did it and it makes all the difference. You flow then; you[…]
[…]lled Six Ten. It ran, I think, for twenty minutes and I was the first anchorman on Six Ten. But I didn't last very long because there was a change of Producer after the first six months and the new Producer wanted his own team. Slightly more news-orientated people came in to do the programme then an[…]
[…]s too low to be a good actor, but I was over Tony Garnett and Tom Courtenay, when I was at University College London, but I was quite a good producer-director. And I wanted to take that path, and in fact spent my first post-graduate job was with a touring theatre in Norway. A state touring theatre i[…]
[…] the top and then Peter Mullins came along as – I don’t know what his official title was – but certainly Peter Proud.AL He was probably Assistant Art Director.GH Probably was. But they got it down to a fine art. We used to turn out those Robin Hoods on schedule. We would go through[…]
[…]e, to a place calledSpeaker 1 1:32 there was one lot of rushes I was showing that involved a boat, and I believed it belonged to the film director. And there was going across to a place called Deauville. And they filmed around Deauville and myself being a travel fanatic. I showed the rus[…]
[…]ht, What's he going to say? So he said, he said, You're a very good camera man. He said, That's photographically Very good. He said, But you're a bad director.Unknown Speaker 31:51 So I said, Director, you know, they're all little wooden figures. So he said, wooden or whatever they are, […]
