[…]of work - commercial television was starting - wandered along and saw Michael Yates in which we know who were head of departments at Rediffusion and ATV I got a job with Richard Real (?) ATV - 00:05:42Very funny story about that because he said to me “Yes we can offer you a job here”. &nb[…]
[…] the days of TWW, Television Wales in the West, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor and the glamorous team that won the Harlech licence to broadcast ITV. And so for two years I produced what was called the Peter Williams Column in the programme paper for TWW, and I was absolutely wrong – actually wo[…]
[…]eter as well. I used to meet him regularly because he lived at Arkley, you know. And when we were - I was later in television, based at Elstree with ATV, I used to go via Arkley to my home in Finchley because I couldn't stand the main roads. At the end of the day we'd finished about six, I used to p[…]
[…]ht to do to make it work and that was real hard work.DR: The other thing that makes amazes me that you were able to go straight into the gallery of a tv studio and direct a live television production, you must have had some training, you must can’t go straight inWT: I didn’t have any at all and I be[…]
[…] was a financial genius. She would say it’s no good Cartier selecting an expensive picture, I cannot pay for it.Norman Swallow: You never worked for ITVRudi Cartier: I never worked for ITV, I had many, many tempting offers, which always came back yes we will pay you more. Not one commercial, nothing[…]
[…]or the Scottish Broadcasting Heritage Group's Oral History project. The interviewer is Janet McBain, the date is 14th July 2018 and the place is the STV's studio in Glasgow. The copyright of this recording is vested in the Scottish Broadcasting Heritage Group. We will start at the very beginning. Yo[…]
[…]markable. You know he and John Houston were there because of something rather extraordinary which I learned in John Houston's autobiography Anatole Litvak who ran the American forces tell me it had covered the landing in North Africa by the American troops with unfortunately one director cameraman w[…]
[…]during that period I think I made the Dispute programme, and I made two documentaries outside - or was it three? - I made one called Wall Street for ATV, which was totally a montage documentary with just a narrator linking. NS That’d be for Bob Heller, would it? JG For Bob Heller, who was […]
[…]ily have a television interest? R: No. But television was in its infancy! This would be about, I think we first got a television about 1958/59. STV had been on the go for a year or two years at that time. And I remember we got the television and, gosh, we didn't have an outside aerial. It was a[…]
[…]rted up. So independents who had been making sponsored films, of course tried to clamber on the bandwagon, together with people who left the BBC and ITV form independent companies. So there was everybody scrambling for work from Channel Four still, there still are. There were too many companies look[…]
