[…]sp;[Interviewer is Tim Mitchell, No Date but probably May-August, 2017][Start of Recording][00:00] I: Rob, OK, before you came here as the Chief Executive Officer, what were your views of STV as a company and as a brand? R: Well, I grew up in Troon so I've got lots of childhood memories of[…]
[…]about what the picture costs but nobody really know except perhaps the accountants of Columbia. Because Spiegel and Mike Frankovich who was the chief executive of Columbia Pictures in Europe, there will always arguments going on but Spiegel has a wonderful way of getting his own way and never reveal[…]
[…]inian angle, and it was about that time, it was about, that would have been the early part of 1982, that Jeremy Isaacs was appointed as the new Chief Executive of Channel 4 and announced they were looking for ideas, and Vicky and I were at an event together, sorry Vicky Wegg-Prosser and I were at an[…]
[…] the laboratories and the filmcompanies did not want to give their nitrate material straight to the Archive:the people on the ground did, but not the executives, who were too scared ofcopyright and losing ownership, and so on, even of materials that no longerseemed to have an owner, so there were co[…]
