A F (Peter) Birch

[…]At Shepherd's Bush, I don't think there was any alteration, not whilst I was there, and then of course they closed down in 1937, and then I went onto Newsreel for a couple of years. I was very flattered, because there were four mixers, and, when it came to closing down, the newsreel section had to b[…]

Dicky Leeman

[…] we had a big feature film, a B film, the news, an hour's variety programme, and an organ recital. And […]

Ronald Grant

[…] eights, glossy, sharp pictures, and he bought them in the castle gate. I was really interested that they're called press stills, and they're used in newspapers. And I think I must have swapped something for bought them from this guy, the operator. And these were the first stills I had. And we still[…]

John Daly

[…]ked him if they had any sort of openings in the film industry and jobs in the film industry. I said, Well, we've there is a there is a vacancy, visit news,Unknown Speaker  2:01  inaction. And they were like a news news gathering company. So I thought, yeah, that sounds interesting. So when[…]

Kenneth Allan Patrick Coyle

[…] a Web Developer in the Visual Team, looking after the various websites along with the team here. So, an example of that would be the STV Player, STV News, things like that. And small micro sites, we'll say Coronation Street, Emmerdale, the X Factor, that sort of thing. Over time we've turned it int[…]

Robert Scott

[…]viously, doing TV programmes was much more interesting, even as a student, than going to lectures and that sort of thing! On `Unit Sixty Five, we did news programmes and we had Danny Kyle on and Billy Connolly before he grew to be really famous. The University's audio visual unit was very supportive[…]

Dicky Leeman

[…]he afternoon, if I got into the Gaumont State at Kilburn before two o'clock I could get in for sixpence. And we had a big feature film, a B film, the news, an hour's variety programme, and an organ recital. And it was a good place for an out of work actor to sit down and rest himself during the wet […]

Christopher Miles

[…]al sort. And we had as a sort of thriller element in it a missing videotape that had been stolen from a man on his way from Jodrell bank to talk to a newspaper editor about some strange goings on. This then turned out with a day to couch it in terms of our science report spoof, as if it's been sort […]
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