[…]iewee: Alf TunwellTape 1, Side 1Ralph Bond: This is a recorded tape interview with Alf Tunwell. ACTT member of very long standing, and pioneer in the newsreel section of the British film industry. Alf, during your, almost a lifetime in this industry, and particularly in newsreels, you must have seen[…]
[…]Alan LawsonInterviewee: David ProsserTape 1, Side 1Alan Lawson: The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. David Prosser, Newsreel cameraman, later BBC film cameraman. Recorded on the 23rd of the fifth, 1989 at his home in Chandler's Ford, Interviewer Alan Lawson. Side on[…]
[…] me by surprise as he appeared unannounced in the office I used and didn’t take too kindly to me enjoying a cup of coffee, catching up with the local newspaper and being unable to confirm that I had carried out my morning Theatre inspection Somehow I suspected there was some genuine feeling in his t[…]
[…] er "Oh yes!" and the only experience I'd had of news was going to the cinema and seeing Pathe Gaumont […]
[…]ace?!...Never been up there!" and he said "Well, could you do the start of The Boat Race?" and I said er "Oh yes!" and the only experience I'd had of news was going to the cinema and seeing Pathe Gaumont and all that, and I thought...and I could never, you know, never imagine myself being...doing th[…]
[…]ations. And then a friend of my father's - Transylvania had meanwhile become Romania - invited him to become editor of the biggest Hungarian speaking newspaper in the capital of Transylvania which is Cluj if you are Romanian, Kolozsvar if you are Hungarian or Klausenburg if you are German. My mother[…]
[…]o the time you became qualified within the BBC, taking on a senior position?Michael Aldridge 3:27 Yes, they did. Well, I worked mainly in news and current affairs in The Grove when I started with the BBC. I didn't spend much time at Ealing, it was mainly at The Grove. And then from The G[…]
[…]aid, Yeah, that's fine. Anyway, I did.Unknown Speaker 27:05 Ironically, it turned out that that was a doddle compared to the way that the news agency ended up. But that's some way ahead.Unknown Speaker 27:15 I also applied to one of the people that I was friendly with at ICV.[…]
