[…]g was the man who brought Northumbrian pipes back again because not only did he play them, he made them. He lived at Seton Sluth. A place called Wide Open on the Northumbrian coast.Roy Fowler: Being in Newcastle with the BBC, was that very satisfactory to you at that stage, did you see that as a ste[…]
[…] them. He lived at Seton Sluth. A place called Wide Open on the Northumbrian coast. Roy Fowler: Being in Newcastle […]
[…]olutely no money and they were running out of money, according to Lew, and the film wasn't working at all and somebody had the idea to have, like the opening of the execution of Anne Boleyn, and Vincent, it seems, had worked this thing out and they needed something like five hundred pounds which the[…]
[…]evision. Television started in 1946 and I with a lot of the others applied to go over. We were accepted and of course we went over before the studios opened. In those years we had two studios, A and B. One was Marconi and the other was Baird. We did a week in each studio. So we used to have to learn[…]
[…]it and play the tape and hopefully somebody was watching it! I: So, '74, that was quite early days for video, wasn't it? Half-inch? Was that the open reel half inch? R: Yes. I can't remember what the make was but yes. And then we made another film at the University based on the poem 'Not W[…]
[…]o-director credit. [section about some older people still working] How about Micky Balcon himself?Robert Beatty: Always very pleasant. He asked me to open a fete which was either his church fete or a local thing and they asked him down, and he sent the car for me and I had lunch with him and Lady Ba[…]
[…]he had to be the big fish in the small pool and hewent to Glasgow and opened his own gallery in Gordon Street which is ina prominent part of Glasgow.Of cou[…]
