[…]projects, amateur films, that you have worked on which you’d like to share your experiences with us?TE: In BBC days we did a big job for the Scottish National Film Archives. This would have been some ten/twelve year ago now, which was basically a deal which was struck for the BBC to digitise pretty […]
[…]ridge scholarship at 16 so didn’t need A levels. Worked briefly in tax office then went to univ. Arrived to find myself with 23-year olds still doing National Service – “I was a kind of pet”, couldn’t go into pubs for first 2 years (“I did, but not legally”). I struggled a bit, would probably have d[…]
[…]d, but rather had several other contracts. And the next thing I had to do is to make vectors assistant director on two films, both made for the Royal National lifeboat institution. A short film to be directed by Michael are on called Night launch, which is 10 minutes long. And a long film, directed […]
[…]bsp;in the paper for. An office boy or Junius junior officers system wanted for National Screen services and I saw them that obviously they made fire screens or […]
[…] the labor crisis was a nationwide problem, there was no national scheme to counteract the lack of skilled workers. In […]
[…]mbledon, we did a lot of things Haringey because the Haringey Arena was still up there; we did the Horse of the Year Show from there; we did the International show from White City, we really made show jumping. There was a fellow called Mike Ansell who was boss of the British Horse Society and […]
[…]f.Jimmy Gilbert: It was all with this thought, I think a lot of Scots people, I've noticed it since, Bill Bryden who runs one of the directors at the National theatre, he's head of BBC Scotland now and he's a playwright and he's just obsessed with films. He was telling me coming from Paisley, his fr[…]
[…]ut at Pinewood was a very important stage. So who was your next contact?Rodney Giesler: I left Pangbourne when I was 17 and a half. Of course one had National Service coming up then. I tried to get in the Navy, but they weren't taking anyone except as stokers. I waited for my call-up to come. In the[…]
[…]. JPH: Five guineas or something wasn’t it? DS: A lot of employment to Equity members.JPH: And the Equity strike in ’61, which was over the national deal for the then network as it existed, they all went on strike. We had no actors in anything at all for seven months. It was a very lo[…]
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