[…]o Ferry Road in Teddington when I was roughly 4 years old, because I went to a school at the end of the road when I was 5. He at that time was making films, producing and directing as far as I know at Teddington Studios.SC: What was his first name?RP: Harry Parkinson. I do remember one incident from[…]
[…]cause he hadn't told them what it was about. They didn't realise it was a protest against the Commonwealth Games. Steve then went off to the National Film and Television School. He was one of the first year's intake at the School and when he was there, Centre Point had just been built in London with[…]
[…]pening title sequence which was extremely complex as far as I remember, with all kinds of frames that moved and cameras that moved. You weren't using film, it was far too expensiveNorman Swallow: It was all liveDavid Attenborough: It was all absolutely live and it was all very stylish and it was a g[…]
[…] frames that moved and cameras that moved. You weren't using film, it was far too expensive Norman Swallow: It was […]
[…]dibly exciting and you think you are at the centre of the universe and it's like, and I should say that in those days we were still shooting stuff on film so News stopped happening, I think, at 12:30 in the day because it had to go and be processed and come back. But it didn't stop it being, feeling[…]
[…]I branched out. I couldn't see any future actually in the disc rotating television. It was too crude, so I got the offer of a job as sound chief in a film studio. My type of person with sound experience was the only type of person they could apply to to run their sound department at its inception, s[…]
[…]The copyright of this recording is vested in The BECTU History Project. Peggy Rignold, make-up artist, later to become Mrs Hyde-Chambers, wife of the film editor, and later to work for Lew Grade as an administrator. Recorded on the twenty-eighth of May 1995. Interviewer Alan Lawson. Side One.First w[…]
