[…] come in until maybe two or three years after the war. It was designed as a combat camera by the Germans. And when we first used it, it had a plastic gate, a soft gate. And was astonishing the study in those days, because there was no reason why it should be. It had no register pin or anything and b[…]
[…]member? DM: Minnie Williams in A Comedy of Good and Evil. By Richard Hughes, who wrote High Wind in Jamaica. And I played that afterwards at the Gate, at the Arts, on television, I played that all over the place. And then Richard Hughes says it must never be played again unless I played it. I d[…]
[…]going in – not only Bill and myself but Austen Dempster and Max Green as well we used to find ways of getting in to the studio without going past the gate so that the security people used to come on the set and report that we had not arrived and Herbert used to be very amused and say – well they are[…]
[…]be camera requires a bit of daily input which the guys in the film department weren't really used to because they were used to brushing hairs out the gate and they were very, the film guys were interesting because they were all very critical of optics. Quite rightly! Because in fact I hadn't really […]
[…]nd I think we joined her in front of our microphone at the age of 10. And the children's our broadcast, television, radio. My mother acted with the W Gate Theatre. She had acted with William poor who was either a pioneer in Shakespeare production in EnglandJohn Taylor  4:21  locks his name[…]
[…]ment. It was nearly always, he nearly always took refuge in picking, picking out some obvious, shall we say, a mechanical mistake, like a hair in the gate or scratch on the on the bottom left hand corner of the screen, something that nobody else had ever noticed, because either, either the the actin[…]
[…]e Abbey. But what we did do, what BBC did do, was cover the procession, the processional route, and they chose the Hyde Park, Hyde Park in the Apsley Gate. Now the Apsley Gate in Hyde Park, which is now completely blocked off, so you can't use it. But in those days it wasn't blocked off. Was a three[…]
[…]- you know that sort of paper you have on the top of - compressed tissue paper, on the top of chocolate boxes?Linda Wood : Oh yes!Unidentified : Corrugated...that corrugated stuff?Anthony Mendleson : Yes that's right. And there was a great roll of that, nobody ever found out why it was there, but an[…]
[…]wn Speaker  16:29  And Roy collino and I, we took both the cameras, got in a taxi and went to see George Hill of Newman and Sinclair on Highgate Hill, and in front of us, he took several sized screwdrivers and undid all the exterior of the camera, putting them all in empty film tins, all t[…]
[…]way, I was told to pack me bags and go. But Ernie Garside was the Production Manager and he used to wire or phone up the...the um,Commissioner at the gate and said "Give him a good bollocking and send him back again!" you see? So used to go, you know, tail between my legs. Go to the gate and the old[…]
