[…] to doing budgets, and I can tell you, in my head what a film’s going to cost, if you just […]
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[…] given by one Campbell -Swinton. Now Campbell -Swinton, in his head, invented the cathode ray oscillograph, which as you know […]
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[…]ent freelance in the mid seventies. Not entirely the best time to do it in fact! I ended up out of work for a bit! But eventually David Bell, who was Head of Entertainment here and whom I had met at Thames, phoned me one day and he said, "Look, I'm doing Entertainment at STV in Glasgow but they're e[…]
[…]ble EMI reel-to-reel recorder, which was the sort of chunky, about eighteen inches long, chunky dark greenquarter inch recorder, and he added another head which I don’t understand the system toowell, but which recorded the make and break signal, there was a make and break switch in the camera and th[…]
[…], I suppose. And during that time, I was wanting to get into more technical kind of work. And through friends, I got an introduction to a man who was head of Research at Dollis Hill, the Post Office Research Station; a man called Robinson. He pulled the strings a bit and got me appointed as a youth-[…]