BEHP 0048 Val Guest Transcript.Tape 1 of 8Please note that the use of the Val Guest tapes is restricted and the copyright remains with Val Guest and his estate. Interview with Val Guest, writer, producer, director, at his house…on 17th August 1988.[NB This transcript, whilst ‘complete’ include[…]
[…]s he right) moment I don’t know if you know him? (no I don’t) Really (no, no) nice guy. AndQ: I I It seems to be weighted less in production, more in exhibition and distribution. (your absolutely right) Which yer which (absolutely) mostly they might be nice people but they are usually very boring.SA[…]
[…] many things. I don't know if you...Ella Mallett : I don't think they could have been born, the boys.Roy Fowler : I don't know if he were involved in exhibition.Ella Mallett : Because I think David was 62 about two or three years ago.Roy Fowler : Was he - right.Ella Mallett : And I knew that because[…]
[…]k: Yeah it was, yes, it was evening class, it was evening class. Well then the job I'd done turned out so nice, they sent it to Olympia in a building exhibition. Now I'm talking a long time ago...Sidney Cole: When would that be? Can you remember the year, roughly?Tom Peacock: Well I'm eighty, and sa[…]
[…]s of them here, and they really are lovely. There was plenty of room, although it was set out in a strange area. It was more of a rather like the old exhibition grounds at Wembley. It was a commercial development area, not at all glamorous.Speaker 2 44:46 What point did tape come in? I'm[…]
[…]owed me a model I think.Yes, we had some really nice ideasThis was to be a permanent exhibition, but with moving parts.We were going to have a permanent river with boats so&nb[…]
[…]o knows what goes on in the bureaucratic mind!Stephen Peet: What kind of films did you make then in the Army?Philip Leacock: Training films, some for exhibition, for showing to recruits and things. And some very practical ones like how to pack equipment, which were very dull. And then for a while I […]
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[…]ic score, you know, because this chap hadn’t any idea.But I remember later on, later on he did something for … for a little short of some sort, of an exhibition of pictures or something. And er, he asked me if I would have a look at it, I mean, and fit the music for him [LAUGHTER] fit t[…]
[…] O'Farrell was our assistant and Cecil was the programme planner. He certainly conducted some, some experiments with music hall turns for the Olympia Exhibition of '36 and he did invent this "Picture Page" programme, which was the equivalent of the radio "In Town Tonight". And you had various, eithe[…]
