David Robson

[…] the jobs I had, was red ochre concrete and highly polished and the projectors were on plinths on concrete plinths, […]

David Robson

[…]igh standards as they all were then. It was spotlessly clean, like a hospital, the floor was one of the jobs I had, was red ochre concrete and highly polished and the projectors were on plinths on concrete plinths, painted with sealelight[?] I think - white - when I used to use them. Spotless. I rea[…]

Tim Emblem-England

[…]ut and it’s gone and it’s done, move onto the next and this kind of thing. Obviously you didn’t want a major breakdown on air but it was perhaps less polished but more immediate in this way, but it was the way it was done and so everybody, the other broadcasters all did the same so it was just part […]

Cynthia Moody

[…]ain very good training because you’re working against time and you learn to make very quick decisions and they’re quite complicated,some of them. Not polished, but complicated. And then I went and took over editing and,you know, you’re edit... and the cutting rooms, he had a range of cutting rooms a[…]

Aida Young (nee Cohen)

[…]emed to me to be a bit unfriendly.  The only person who was very friendly and kept inviting us over to her place was the continuity girl who was Polish and was married to a Frenchman, and in the end I did go and visit her before I left Paris. But the standard of work was extremely high, and the[…]

David Prosser

[…]id Prosser: We got arrested by the Poles on the way back, actually.Alan Lawson: [Laughs]David Prosser: If it hadn't been for the fact that I knew the Polish Commander, or Polish Major in the Polish camp...er, and that he spoke a bit of English and French...we would probably have been shot. Because w[…]

Douglas Slocombe

[…]merick originally came down. So the three of us, only one more there was also the producer,Unknown Speaker  30:50  God, I've got his name a Polish, a member of the Polish name, I've got his name for the moment. So we were for lunch anyway,Speaker 1  31:02  we're talking about var[…]

Ted (Robert Edward) Newman

[…]very clever. The water is fair you say the mould Richardson's they use ordinary plain carbon. They don't use copper coated carbons we used to have to polish these carbons. Horrible mucky job to get them to feed smoothly through the solid silver jaws. Now these solid silver jaws with that grip the ca[…]

Len Runkel

[…] hairs.Unknown Speaker  1:13:07  So you take some half foul bras, shim and perforate that a couple of times, even, even a piece of four O's polishing paper,Unknown Speaker  1:13:18  in desperation to take that built up. You know, you know, and maintain them, and maintain the pins[…]

Angela Allen

[…] was nauseated by the lack of care the… the scruffiness of everything. Shoot, shoot, shoot, and it didn’t matter if it worked there was absolutely no polish just turning over film. And I thought “I don’t want to work on this sort of stuff”. It’s not the sort of stuff I wanna watch, I wouldn’t… I wou[…]
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