[…]on was one of Grace's boys, Wheldon and Milne and Baverstock and Peacock, there were quite a lot of them who were very talented.John Taylor: It was a golden period really.Bill Cotton Jr: It was a golden period of television. And when people say to me it it's not like it was in the old days, we had a[…]
[…]the 20 minutes and it all worked and Donald said "Don't touch anything." I was shattered. I was in. Everyone said after that that I was Donald's GHB. Golden Haired boy. That was when I was taken out of the cutting room and sent on location as assistant director. In other words he felt I'd learned en[…]
[…]ongenial and by the age of eleven I was a raging atheist and the only one in thehousehold. That was a stimulating position to hold. I got hold of the Golden Bough, Frazer’sGolden Bough and found in there all the attributes of the religion that my elders and betters believedin, in different tribal so[…]
[…]g where the dubbing was not finished in three weeks as i had been the case but sometimes three months so a new vista was opening up of major work and international work as well the next big event i suppose in the stereo post production world was was dolby but it's necessary i think to put that in a […]
[…]: Anyway, it all went well for just six months, because I joined in August of '35 and B&D was largely destroyed and quite a large part of British International Pictures next door, by the fire, the Ostrer[?] fire of February I think it was... '36. So that everything came to a rapid halt. I went h[…]
[…]vious owners of the house. And the series is completely survives, and is available for bid for people to purchase. It doesn't stand up as well as the golden and Simpson material. But I think we have to look at the Golden Simpson material and say, Well, that's an incredible, incredibly high bar to st[…]
[…]estrict their money and things like that, then they got very up in arms. I mean looking back on it, Ronnie Neame and people like thatremember it as a golden age, but I don’t think they all did at the time. I mean I think though they kind of did, but they were also kicking because they weren’t maybe […]
[…]tep away to Channel Four. This was a big independent production, I said big because of the scope and scale of it. There was a musical on in Russia in Moscow, called Juno and a vos. It was extremely controversial because it told the story of a Russian count in the 19th century, who went on a trade mi[…]
