Alan Lawson  0:04  The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project. Jerry Anstiss, camera operator feature films. interviewers, Alan Lawson, and Sid Wilson, recorded on the first of September 1993. side onefirst and foremost, when and where were you born?Gerry Anstis[…]
[…]d I suggested that Prince Littler, who owned the Moss Stoll group, become the chairman. And we went on from there ...Alan Sapper : And it was called ATV...Lew Grade : And then I started, what I did when we didn't have the licence ...We had a certain amount of capital. Hannah Weinstein came to me wit[…]
[…]in the beginning of the television but they mean 55', they don't realise it had been going 10 years before they joined.RF: Yes from the beginning of ITV. 8. More on Lime GroveRF: Do you remember how long each day the station was on the air, there are two stations now, right, they're transmittin[…]
[…]e chair of the committee. They elected me the chair of the committee. I came off the council and continued until 1979 to come to general council and ITV division. And then, after the long three month, ITV strike in 79 I think it was then that I got on a standing orders committee. Yes, the standing o[…]
[…]uld you agree that on the whole, perhaps one of the most important things that's happened in the last, what 50 years or so in terms of cinema and now TV, is that the viewer, the audience, have gotten more sophisticated in their appreciation. This is absolutelySpeaker 1  38:39  true, and ne[…]
[…]e a good job at for rather a long time, in the sound side of the motion picture business, because I had been additionally honoured by the President's Award the year before, which I really thought was, was enough. I was so pleased with that, but they have a fellowship. To follow that was really well,[…]
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[…]look for a place to live and that same day we got one in a very slummy place in Glasgow and that was in the district called Cowcaddens where Scottish TV is now. I believe that is all demolished now - the whole street - that was a real slum, you know. And that was when my mother started going out wit[…]
