BECTU History Project - Interview No. 328 [Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2002-03-02Interview Date: 1994-06-08Interviewer: Rodney GieslerInterviewee: John HogarthTape 1, Side 1 Rodney Giesler : Right, this is an interview with Mr John Hogarth by Rodney Giesler on the 8th June 1994. Ca[…]
[…]From The Madding Crowd is going to turn out. But meanwhile I was working at Stratford for the Royal Shakespeare Company and I was preparing to do the production, and in fact did it, with Peggy Ashcroft at the Aldwych of a Marguerite Duras play, Days In The Trees. And at weekends, Richard MacDon[…]
[…]re, but it was the very first of the independent frame pictures. And it was only really a tryout for independent praying because they were going into production at Pinewood with a very big programme for those days. And that was wonderful. So independent prime is was really just back projection. A li[…]
[…] was And I was taken off for a two year apprenticeship at Rock studios. It was six months, sound six months, camera, six months editing six months in production. And at the end of the two years, I was asked what department I wanted to go iand I chose camera department.Alan Lawson 3:31 Th[…]
[…]he transition point. You were at the top of the tree in television in your programme mix that you were putting out in the UK, in American exports and production...Lew Grade : Yeah, but it was suitable for here, like 'Edward VII' that I made...Alan Sapper : Very good.Lew Grade : When I made it I had […]
[…]y wheeled in rails with clothes on which you could have for crowd. And I used to come across clothes which I recognised from some of the lovely Korda productions. I remember coming across a dress which Diana Wynyard had worn in 'Kipps', things like that, but was now in crowd. And you felt, "Oh dear,[…]
[…] wonderful, typical BBC story. The Head of the North Eastern Europe Establishment was a completely humourless man. BBC establishment was always above production people, this was the way that Reith(?) didn't trust artistic people. So the man in charge of North East Europe was a man called Mr Lovejoy […]
