[…]ations and acquire a bit of a personal reputation among hard-nosed industry professionals in Edinburgh before I had even started to become the cinema manager I would become. Part of this period involved the projectionists at the Film Guild accepting me as one of their own and teaching me the craft o[…]
[…]d came back for a second time. And at the end of the second time somebody, could have been that awful chap Harold Cox, who really was the worst manager in the history of television newsreel, of television, Harold Cox may well have said to me…I think it was Philip Dorté actually…or Jack Mewett […]
[…] advisable for me to retain a Staffordshire or Irish accent I've often realised how misguided that thought was because a standard southern English or managerial class or ruling class accent has been of immense importance to me in surviving in the BBC and in working in the areas that I've worked in, […]
[…]ilton 0:10 The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project. Today's subject Gerald chambers are senior floor manager with experience at AR TV Rediffusion television and London Weekend Television. Gerald is now retired. The interviewer is john P. Hamilton, a m[…]
[…]what the department was called, it was a very nice man and he had to set up the auditions for the shows going abroad for the concert, he was Concerts Manager and he had to audition hundreds of people to form a concert to send out overseas and package them. And I got the job and it all started fallin[…]
[…]pherefrom them but they were entirely differently structured. They were obviously because of the natureJohn Taylor: How was it managed, did he have a managerBill Cotton Jr: He started off with a manager, a man called Dave Tom, and then he had, I forget exactly a man calledGatsby I think managed him.[…]
[…] jump ahead. Balkan is head of the studio? Is he Michael?Speaker 2 42:50 He was there, and then it was Sam close cameras. Was the student manager, yes, but who is the executive producer? WasSpeaker 1 42:59 the sort of boss there, right? And the ostras are the money people. Oh[…]
[…] come for the job." "Oh," they said, "Mr Lumley, the manager, won't be here just yet. But anyway, while you're […]
[…]attled the chains and eventually they opened the door and said, "What do you want?" I said, "I've come for the job." "Oh," they said, "Mr Lumley, the manager, won't be here just yet. But anyway, while you're here you might as well sit down in the foyer." So I'm sitting there waiting for this terribl[…]
[…]:18 Well, I never decided to go into management. Like an awful lot of people who were in "management" in that period came from ... they weren't managers that came into the industry. They were craft people or producers that became managers and, waiting between assignments, I was asked to actual[…]
