[…]eople you could go to or talk to at that time? BAOh no!.. The o.. the only one was at all… that you… that you could talk to was one of the executive producers called Teddy Warrick. But… the problem was if anybody appeared… for that time… to be at all empathetic… to people… they woul[…]
[…] film preparing a film at RKO called creation at the time and Cooper. This was during the Depression and Cooper came on to take charge of RKO as a as executive producer. And he uh got interested in stop motion animation and uh uh so he got Brian to abandon creation and uh oh Brian and Byron Crabb I […]
[…]end after four years because John Davis had realised how vulnerable he had left himself in that part of the business and he gradually brought his own executive staff in and we could see the writing on the wall. So what happened then was that Sydney and Jo Caverson and myself left at the end of his c[…]
[…]er, and I turned them down, partly through shock, because I went for one interview that was so deeply embarrassing and unpleasant.A boardroom with 12 executives on one side of a giant table and me on the other, realising that half them weren't even listening to what I was saying. So I didn't know wh[…]
[…]n when I went to Pinewood, it was Rank. But I never saw Rank himself; he wasn’t personally involved. There were people like Earl St. John, who was an executive producer, who did have a certain amount of flair, I think. But otherwise, you dealt really with the producer and the director of whichever f[…]
[…] a show that came out of WGBH in Boston, with a young producer there called Henry Becton, who I think ended up of managing director of WGBH, my chief executive. And they were they were sort of inspirational films that let us see that you could give public access and still make good programmes, inter[…]
NB This is a resume only.John Box (JB)Production DesignerBECTU No.463Interviewer: Rodney Gielsler (RG)Date 09/12/19993 Tapes Side 100:00:00 – 00:09:30 Introductions; born 1920 in England but moved to Ceylon; father couldn’t get a decent job after WWI so he worked in a number of remote areas of […]
[…]dRF: So everyone is doubling up, by the sound of it, on disciplineLK: Yes, everybody did something, I think I wrote, and sometimes produce, Derek was executive producer and Cenkalski produced and then I took over the editing, I was taught by all of them a little bit, so yes we did absolutely everyth[…]
[…]en though it was said it would never work. And was the start of daytime television.Interviewer 23:29 Okay, good. You actually were Senior Executive of Film Department in Pebble Mill when you left?Michael Aldridge 23:37 Well it wasn't just Film Department, I mean Film Departme[…]
