BECTU History Project - Interview No. 403 [Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2002-10-02Interview Date: 1997-04-22Interviewer: John LegardInterviewee: Peggy GickTape 1, Side 1 John Legard: Now Peggy, perhaps you'd like to tell us a little bit about your early life?Peggy Gick: My father wa[…]
[…]ey did at…gardens, near Richmond. And the rest was done in the studio, and I can’t tell you, if you look at it, it was bloody amazing, and there were models and they built the monastery full size. Alfred Junge was the production designer and it was amazing. So, I was there with Teddy Carrick and the[…]
[…]s in 56. So that was where I met kennis more. Again, to turn up in my life as it were. We had a lot of trouble as you can imagine, in those days with models. They weren't anything like what people have been able to achieve since. And they didn't spend the money on them in those days either. But I go[…]
[…]rank precision engineering.Roy Fowler 19:44 So what are them? What are they making that you remember, projectors, the 16 mil Bell and how modelSpeaker 1 19:51 cameras, the 60 mill cameras, eight mill cameras,Roy Fowler 19:56 the 70 the bell and how 70s. Theories. […]
[…]lson was editing and he said to me “Well, I don’t know what this plane is doing or what it’s like, they’re all in a muddle.” They’re doing all models of them you see, and he couldn’t cut them together until he got these models. So I had to get these straight. Down at Wattisham air[…]
[…] facilitated more Asian women coming into the workplace, and thus also into broadcasting.Speaker 1 28:47 Do you think they were more role models as well? Because I don't know. You talked a little bit about because of your passion, wanting to work in drama, or then producing and directing[…]
[…]ced where it was split. And then it worked. All right. It went on there. But all they wanted, but the trouble, the real trouble on Bobby Dick was the models. They had no success with them over a period of months. There was nothing that was successful. And I was brought there was a cable come for me […]
[…]war loot, a number of German frontline tape recorders. They were very heavy, very ponderous but they worked extremely efficiently. Even with those as models the BBC research and development department which was of course part of engineering division failed to produce any sort of workable tape record[…]
