[…]ass the 11 Plus, in the school in the year that I was in in 1950. And I went to East Ham Grammar School, which had pretensions through the headmaster, who was a classics scholar himself. And he put great store on us, East London kids doing Latin and Greek and so on you know and[…]
[…]nything up to about a hundred guys standing outside the gate, waiting, hoping that the foreman would say, "Such-and-such wants a plasterer..." or the head chippy wanted another chippy and things like that. And I lived in Eldon Avenue in those days, because although I was freelance, I...Rodney Giesle[…]
[…]st have been about six or something, a friend of my father's was King Karl's Private Secretary, a man called Count Bian, and he was also like perhaps head of the Secret Service or something, and he rang my father in Cluj from Bucharest to say that a man called Zelea Codreanu was the head of the Roma[…]
[…]industry?Margaret Thompson 2:07 Yes. And explainwho Bruce Wolf was as well.Speaker 2 2:10 Well, Bruce will was then the head of GBI, and GB Instructional. And I was justFrances Cockburn 2:21 told, ISpeaker 2 2:22 think, I'd seen a film. I'd seen […]
[…] jumping over. I did. Took the City and Guilds exam. It was a three-year exam and I took it in one year and got a First Class. Got me own school, Hillhead, because I thought, 'Right, if my salary is big enough then they won't mind me moving to television!' Which they did so I got into E.T.V., worked[…]
[…]m but the idea was (I've forgotten his name, which is terrible!) but it was to get chief engineers ready to start ITV, if they got the Government go-ahead to start ITV. And they did and Fred Becker became the Chief Engineer of STV, MacNamarr became the Chief Engineer of ATV and they were all High De[…]
[…]about STV? The five years have actually been a bit of a whirlwind, to be honest. Most of it is memorable. I can't think of anything off the top of my head just now, sorry. I: That's OK. We can actually come back to that or not, it doesn't matter. But anything, sorry, the other question would be[…]
[…]Kong concept and my first experiments were with puppet string puppets. And I made a lot of dinosaurs and and King Kong and my mother helped model the heads in paper mâché and they recently found them in the trunk of my mother's garage. I had kept them all these years and I was shocked that they were[…]
[…]ema Paradiso.Alan Lawson 5:37 Did you have you see?Ted Newman 5:37 Yes, it's wonderful. other cars.were dropping ahead of my talk. But I must tell you that what happened to the projects that happened to me was a fire was terrific. Yes. But when we got back into in[…]
[…]ould be and I think, from that moment (it was a very unique programme actually - it was a live lunchtime programme. It went out every day, which was ahead of its time indeed), but I always remember sitting in the audience at being absolutely amazed at what went on behind the scenes! The cameras, the[…]
