[…]d he said no no no no spoke to these that try Dec so I went to his brother McDonnell and he said I'm sorry there's no projection he said but Alec the engineer at the at the ice rink and spring gardens going in for a heart operation. So if you want to do cover there, so I will add a wide boiler suit […]
[…]otball and Mr Sport really, I suppose, as far as we were concerned and Arthur was very competitive and it was Cup Final day and I got a call from the engineer in charge at Hampden to say that he wouldn't be getting any pictures of the game. Now, in those days, we came on the air early, both ourselve[…]
[…]as when Jeremy Isaacs was Editor. Hugely buoyant and adventurous period. But Jeremy wanted to do away with presenters and Robin Day didn’t like this, engineered a coup, got Jeremy ousted. Jeremy then pitched up at Rediffusion before it became Thames, started recruiting Panorama people for This Week,[…]
[…] I was offered a job. There was a few changes going on. And I was offered the job and I went there in April 1983. What was your official title? Chief Engineer, it was a combination of the chief, the old chief projectionists. And the house engineers which they had in the in the West End. Yeah,Speaker[…]
[…]bsp; Q: The chief engineer of the Westrex company said there can only be one perfect seat in any cinema, in the stalls, in the middle of the row, almost always immediat[…]
[…] for Hammer because they’d recently bought themselves a new camera, [Mitchell] BNC and he was employed as a maintenance engineer to look after it and he recommended me as a clapper loader to Jimmy Wilson. I beg your pardon, Arthur Grant. I do apologise, not Jimmy W[…]
[…]ed King Alfreds in Hampstead. Didn't do very well academically. And at the age of 16, I thought I was going to become,I thought I'd like to become an engineer. So I started looking around and found one or two places to go as an apprentice, and one of them was Handley Page in Cricklewood Tony La[…]
