[…] at Newcastle, a producer called Cecil McGibbon who eventually became head of television for a time until he died in […]
[…]cy and I mean, people with whom I had been at College with, like Liam Hood, became Director of Programmes. Not Director of Programmes, I think it was Head of Light Entertainment or something like that and Brian Marney - there's a name I've come out with! I don't know where that came! Brian Marney! H[…]
[…]Black Dwarf, erm, and I got on very well with John and he said: ‘look I’ve got this idea of setting up a magazine called The Beast’, which was quite ahead of its time. It was to look at ecology, Green issues, animal liberation, he said ‘would you be interested in working on it?’ And I said ‘well, ye[…]
[…]. Well, he wascounterproductive because the local management were not bad actually, they weren’twhatever. I mean they were part of a group that had a headquarters in London and subsequently they behaved very badly, but I think locally they could have got a lot more ifthe guy had been more open to di[…]
[…] point of view?Alan Lawson : From Klang to.... [RCA]Peter Birch : None at all. No I mean you still had the sound to get on your microphone as in your headphones. The fact the camera was slightly different, density versus area.Alan Lawson : Wasn't Klang Film a bastard, going there, rather like BA?Pet[…]
[…]ose days there wasn't any dubbing. All sound was recorded direct. So the sea had to be recorded at the same time as the dialogue. I had a kind of drumhead and pounds and pounds of lead shoe and I stood at the side of the set enthusiastically moving this drum backwards and forwards to produce the sou[…]
[…] cast came, Pressburger came with a bloody bandage round his head: he’d been hit by the train door on his […]
[…] that's why he'd lost his hair, he shaved all his head off for a part, it never grew back again. […]