[…]ERVIEWER: Oh, sorry to hear that. Yes, and then what happened next? CHARLES SMITH: I shot my first film as a cameraman in 1951. That was for the National Coal Board, and it was a film on fires underground and how to fight them. This was made in the wake of a serious disaster which killed a cons[…]
[…] leg and it was repaired and they won the Grand National together, and I thought it was a wonderful film. […]
[…]a first class ticket. Nothing like it is today, but nevertheless it was first class and I was in a carriage – and I always swore I’d write a play for tv and put this scene in, and sitting opposite me were three officers –McG: [interrupting] Hang on a moment there Harry because we are going to change[…]
[…]at Lime Grove.Eventually, all this time, 1938 nobody was doing anything about up war, all of us couldsee it coming and probably foolishly Ijoined the National Fire Service, so two evenings aweek I had to become fireman, pretend to be a fireman. So as soon as war was announcedI was actually put on fu[…]
[…]t programme and the regional programmes which developed into other programmes eventually.Roy Fowler: Was it called the light programme, wasn't it the national programme?Reg Sutton: Yes the National Programme and the regional programmes. It became the Light and Home Service during the war. So it was […]
[…] Fowler: Was it called the light programme, wasn't it the national programme? Reg Sutton: Yes the National Programme and the […]
