[…] 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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]n agricultural world in central Lanarkshire with nobody in the immediate family that would point me in any direction, somehow or other I got it in my head that I should be a journalist. I: OK. So, farming was never the option? R: No. I loved horses, I hated cows and sheep! And that was jus[…]
[…]promoted itself on film right from the very beginning. The Palestinian Arabs only ever really appeared as strange figures wearing tea-towels on their heads, backward, primitive and obstructive, violent, chaotic, incapable of their own government: that was the image that came out of the film records,[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]of seasickness.Yes.HARRY COURCHA 4I was always rather poor physically.Yes.And, mm, we crept through Gibraltar quietly and eventually realised we were heading for Italy.Mm.And we landed at Naples.And what year was this, can you remember?1944.Ah, yes.I was called up in Forty-three.Yes.I was there 1944[…]
[…]because he used to talk to me occasionally. And there was nothing in it for him to talk to a boy of seven and a half or eight. He was a redheaded man. And I then heard my grandfather say, you know, and lowering his voice in a conspiratorial manner, he said, you know that Flynn […]
[…] much for him and I remember him sitting with his head in his hands and Alex said ‘would you just […]
[…] I think, parked somewhere. And so we went backwards into 42 Union terrace, which was the Offices of James left Donald Aberdeen cinemas, and also the head office of the Aberdeen picture palaces, which were two companies that had amalgamated into the same family, the Donald family, who were four brot[…]
[…]course, is that it meant that something that was terribly complicated in its way, say filmicly, could be shot by a camera man but if it was a talking head that was gonna run for five minutes, it needed a cameraman, an assistant cameraman, a director, a production assistant, perhaps an electrician, e[…]
