[…]d that twice. I did Clara in The Nutcracker, I did Checkmate, the Vic Wells ballet did Checkmate. There was a lot.NS: Who was in charge in respect of TV production in those days?MD: D H Munro, I think, I mean I don’t know, But my impression is that it was D H Munro.AS: He did all the ballets?MD:&nbs[…]
[…] or whatever. And we were using Mark 3, Marconi image Autocons[?] on nearly all our programmes. The standard camera in ITV, although we did have some Pye, we had some RCA, but that was the major stuff for doing 'Double Your Money' and 'Take Your Pick' and the big programmes which, over Christmas you[…]
[…]re party to it in some fashion. The directors I mentioned George of course Bill Ward was there and Bill went on to enormous heights of course in the ATV in the Grade organization. He had been a floor manager, he was a director by the time I got there working on light entertainment so call[…]
[…]yright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project. Today's subject Gerald chambers are senior floor manager with experience at AR TV Rediffusion television and London Weekend Television. Gerald is now retired. The interviewer is john P. Hamilton, a member of the committee. The da[…]
[…]y what we were going to do. So, then I asked “What is the studio like, that we’re going to do this film in?” So, they punched a button on their TV set, which came up with a black and white picture, saying this is the studio. Which was just the site of the new studio. So, fine, than[…]
[…]I suppose that’s what made me feel a bit kind of fidgety but I mean nobody could believe that the BBC would pay me more. In general categories ITV paid much more but not in the libraries area.SUE MALDEN: So David Martin was the sort of key management person to make a decision.ANNE HANFOR[…]
[…]ry V"?Dallas Bower 34:25 Yes I, Henry V came about in this way: after Munich I thought we were going to need "Henry V" and I'd done a TV script and I had in mind that Ralph, Ralph Richardson might do it. During the war while at the MoI I thought why don't I work on this 'c[…]
[…]restricted [inaudible].
Yah, yah. So it’s a different thing. But I do think that, you know, the... I suppose the people that are coming up through TV are getting that kind of training probably.
Well they were with the dismantlement of the ITV companies.
Yah. Yah.
And the BBC, there won’t[…]
[…]ed a training school in London because the studio wasn't built there was nothingup there however, we got two working up there we bought the gear from Pye and we had twoscanners - which were much more than we needed. So the OB people trained in Manchester and thestudio people trained in London, we ra[…]
