[…] I love you, you're my friend. I don't want to fallout with you and I said a producer is a producer. The producer is the man who has to bring the bad news, and I said I don't want to row with you, dad. He saidI tell you what, I'll never row with you in pUblic. So I said but there are plenty. I will […]
[…].DS: European Service. And people rang up and said I need a quarter of an hour recording time to do something, or there were block bookings for radio newsreel and whatever, and you had to fill in all these charts and then people would ring up and say can you fit me in a quarter of an hour. And it be[…]
[…]re. They had a Staff Photographer, Harry Wilson, and I was there simply to process his films and, at that time, we used to send out lots of stills to newspapers so that was my job to deal with that and because of Union demarcation and all the rest of it, I wasn't allowed even to make a copy photogra[…]
[…]ired from the RAF in 1924, which was quite early - and he joinedCookwit(?) Budget as a camera man which was one of the original, very original, cinemanewsreels. Topical budget. I mean it was one of the first ones. He then transferred, to myknowledge, in about 1927-28 to Pathé and was a camera man fo[…]
[…]ieve Easter 1935, although I maybe have got the date wrong, I was sitting on the beach, on the pebble ridge at Dymchurch with my aunt and there was a newspaper on the beach and I read the headline of it and whatever it said I don't remember. But I said, “What does that mean?” and she told me what it[…]
[…] a former president of the Irish cricket union.Unknown Speaker 2:06 When we met the first time, it was 50 years ago in 1973. You were the news editor for UTP reports. I was a rather callow youth just out of university, and I was applying for a job with Granada TV. And I, as a student tha[…]
[…]be Communications so you're doing all the lines for radio and TV. You do all these lines, setting and monitoring and jacking things up and then doing News at night so you would set the cameras up and work studios and stuff like that. But it was no fun being a Technician and I moved to Glasgow. I got[…]
[…] newsreel photography in 1929 at the newly formed British Movietone News, and during WWII he joined the Canadian Army where […]
