[…]hing. A great stroke of luck again,Unknown Speaker  25:58  having decided I wasn't going I was looking for another job because I applied at ITN.Unknown Speaker  26:06  And as I walked into the room, the head of technical operations was started to say, I've invited one of my shift[…]
[…]much depth as we could possibly muster so that if there was a vote in the House of Commons, we would do a special half-hour after than night out from ITN then in then Foley Street London and I remember Davy Johnson who was, by that time, Director of Programmes, saying to me once, he said, "Don't you[…]
[…]ted.Roy Fowler: '55, I think it was.Reg Sutton: 54, 55. A lot of the operators from the old cinema newsreels went there, soundmen, cameramen, went to ITN, that was a bit later. At the start, Rediffusion who were the London station had no cameramen or sound men on film. So Paul and I were seconded wh[…]
[…]was gonna say, I've rarely say that these because I had NASA photographs, Apollo being a NASA project in American project. But of course, then so did ITN and all the papers, so they have the same photographs. So at least our ones were different these days as a multitude of ways of getting photograph[…]
[…]orable things! [09:40]I: So, how long did you remain on the...? R: I joined STV in '71 and I got a job as a Cameraman for the first year at ITN rates or something. That was the pay scale and I wasn't allowed to shoot anything other than News footage and, in theory, the grading was for a si[…]
[…]cumentary going out which we struck over. The Home Secretary actually stopped the BBC from putting that show, that show out and there was a picket of ITN and BBC. So, yes, it was a lively period. So for you it wasn’t just about membership it was also about being active? Yeah, of yeah. And […]
[…]ly one job but Ian Ross was the other chap, they employed me and they employed Ian Ross. Ian Ross went on to become a distinguished correspondent for ITN.I found that in fact I wasn’t going to Southampton at all, they were going to send me to Dover .. the chat around the water cooler in Southampton […]
