[…]em for us. They were a little late coming through, but we were still clear of our budgets.RF: As I remember there were composites, and quite a lot of model work.VG: There was trick stuff like fog coming down the Thames, the Thames dried up, the police boat going down the trickle; Trafalgar Square co[…]
[…] go once a week and I remember we had a model and everything, it was very interesting. She was a […]
[…] with Channel 5 and Sky in the late eighties was modelled on American TV and was claimed to give viewers […]
[…]s of negative and raw stock, and so on. But with the Technicolor it was continuous, so you laced the matrices up onto the IB plant and then you had a Model C printer which was printing the soundtrack onto the blank and that was fed by a loop. So you had Reel 1 on a loop and you just kept printing th[…]
[…]id thirty-six million pounds a year for its licence and, of course, if you're paying that to the Treasurer, you can't make programmes! So, this whole model was the beginning of the end of ITV really. But there was a sense in which Gus wanted, from 1993, to out-muscle the BBC in programming terms and[…]
[…] light roof, which was not the best construction, and when I first went to look at it the floor was covered in pools of water, it looked like a scale model of the Great Lakes. [TIME 01:01:31] So, I said to the BBC architect that came with me as part of the inspection “I suppose you can […]
[…]oody bit you know, really unbelievable now, the bravery of doing it.Rodney Giesler:No film clips or anything to use as …Roy Fowler:Oh well there were model shots, which were …Rodney Giesler:… a bit like film?Roy Fowler:Which were put on film but of course the terrible thing in those days it was so a[…]
