[…] minute takes and he had had the whole – or Sydney Bernstein had paid for it – they had had the whole floor of the stage at MGM laid with carpet from Granada cinemas so that the transatlantic dolly which did not run on tracks could track over the floor without making a noise and smoothly. The sets w[…]
[…]I was getting 15 shillings a week then what as the projections as third and asked for rise and it wasn't forthcoming. So I wrote to Odeons I wrote to Granada's Odeon has offered me a job as third at the Odeon Southall it was only half a crown a week but pride and all that I took it The funny thing w[…]
[…]at The Burroughs, things which helped us along was that we got the contract for Candid Camera. We did all Candid Cameras up to the last series, which Granada started to do themselves. Then we did World in Action and we had a contract with Nord Deutscher Rundfunk to do their London Diary and a German[…]
[…]n?p. 10Reggie Beck: I always went wherever Joe went.Wyn Ryder: I think that's terribly important. You went along?Reggie Beck: I was in Granada and Malaga.Wyn Ryder: So you were in hotel rooms or something?Reggie Beck: Yes.Wyn Ryder: Taking a Movieola?Reggie Beck: N[…]
[…]story short aletter came saying would I go and see John Corfield at Golden Square, whichwas British National headquarters, I think it's now where the Granadabuilding is. I didn't know, what for so one November day in 1935 I wentup there and was put in front of a very stern gentleman who looked at me[…]
[…]said to me, if you want more money, you're going to have to go elsewhere. So I sort of looked around and there were two other cinemas in Enfield, the Granada and the Florida. And there was nothing going there, but they told me there was a job going at the Queen's Palmers green. Now that was only abo[…]
[…]50 years ago in 1973. You were the news editor for UTP reports. I was a rather callow youth just out of university, and I was applying for a job with Granada TV. And I, as a student that was watching what UTB did. One thing to remember, is the lunch break, you and your colleagues, you all blink cric[…]
[…]BrainBox. Very, very clever. And we both got demobbed more or less at the same time, I managed to get a job with the BBC. And Gordon went to work for Granada Television in Manchester, he lived in Manchester, so it was sort of natural, I suppose for him. So we both went into into television, broadcas[…]
