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[…]Hall, Hampstead to begin with. And then I was sent away to boarding school aged about 8 to 9, awful idea. And I was sent to a school, St Edmonds, Hindhead. There was a rather eccentric headmaster called Ivor Bully who made us salute the cherry trees outside the front door. We would have to go round […]

[…]cer was Donald Alexander, and other producers were Jack Chambers, Jack Holmes. Budge Cooper  was a director. Francis Gysin was a director, later head of the Coal Board Film Unit. I can't remember any other names offhand. INTERVIEWER: Well, that’s quite a roll call to start with! CHARL[…]

[…]like to come and work here. So I thought about that. And he said, we're going to Mr. Maxwell in Glasgow next. And I saw John Maxwell and he said, go ahead and I went on to start work at Elstree Studios. So on the scenario department. Linda Wood  4:31Do you have any memories of John Maxwell[…]

[…]ill going then. I: And these were produced both with the staff from the Company and externally? R: Yes, it was. Robert Love was a brilliant Head of Drama and he looked after all of that and then I hired other people into the Company, so to speak, or as freelancers or whatever to run things[…]

[…]ly part of the week. You worked Tuesday to Saturday essentially. You got your ideas together on the Tuesday, Wednesday. They were fed up to Dundee to Head Office. They would come back with a response - "Yeah, we'll do that, we'll do this," or "we'll vary that." But it quite often was Thursday or Fri[…]

[…]to Manchester to stand in for the FOM there for a year, which I did, Graham Turner. And then coming back to Bristol, the job became vacant. Cyril Morehead became the FOM. I became the Assistant FOM and was with him for three weeks when I was drafted as a FOM to Pebble Mill.  From there, Film Un[…]

[…]ive a bugger what the shop says in London. There’s no way you’ll show a film on this station made by Yorkshire with London people.' And so I was head of a company which couldn’t make anything. We made one pilot of Robin Hood for a guy in America called Sandy Frank.”   BECTU History[…]

[…] equipment that was in the cutting room in those days? Yes, itJohn Shirley  13:07  was the old Spyglass style movie. He always had a silent head alongside it for matching. No sight, just a silent head just a slice. Sorry. And the synchronizers were crummy. Lord is where they didn't know wh[…]