[…]ade this decision to leave the company. After about five months, I started shopping around and this was in the summer of 1962, I saw an advert in the newspaper for a BBC film department at Ealing was taking on temporary staff for the editing department. So I ran the number to find out what it was al[…]
[…]lective action or collective power or trade unions. Now, that's particularly true of a Conservative government is particularly true of media outlets, news outlets, press in particular, but increasingly with with the involvement of sky and others is true of broadcasters too. They do not like trade un[…]
[…]er 2:26 Oh sure. I understand. Your pacemaker. I'm switching my mobile offDerek Threadgall 2:47 right. Barry pan we have some news, electro background. While your parents in the business.Unknown Speaker 3:03 I've no showbusiness background at all. My father was a […]
[…]ian Victory detour were the IWM collections of Second World War Ministry of Information films and after that I catalogued a series of German language newsreels called Welt Im film which were put out by the British and American occupation authorities in occupied Germany after The Second World War. Qu[…]
[…]ision society called Network 4 which used the studios in the professional centre. We'd make a weekly magazine programme and we also had an electronic news gathering kit as well. So I remember going out and directing a little story about the first release of “Star Wars” and interviewing people coming[…]
[…] Palmers Green, which it was known, and we did a production of All My Sons, in which I played the son, which got a really good article in the Evening News at that time. That was very successful actually. (TIME 06:08) DARROL BLAKE: Now, if you were born in 1932 you had memorie[…]
[…]rst ever films that were made about a conflict for a British audience, some of the issues about faking footage and how scenes were staged and how the news was imparted through the brand new medium of film, and then The First World War, then the Peace Movement in the ‘30s; The Second World War, the m[…]
[…]oviet bloc. And it was about the Soviet repression of that uprising. It was a very moving and very realistic portrayal. It looked like it looked like newsreel. lert in fact, each shot in the streets of Canterbury with a bunch of amateurs. And I thought it was amazing. And actually Peter Watkins beca[…]
[…]lew across one day, said would he meet me at the airport, I met him at Schiphol, drove him into the office and in the car he said “I’ve got some good news for you”, yeah, “we’ve sold the company”.00:40:39 And of course I… &[…]
