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[…]in the canteen, everybody sat with everybody. They weren't, you know, once you knew them, and you it was just very stimulating. And lots of ideas and production staff, everybody was there together sort of thing, Nick Gilbey 31:28 choosing so they weren't sort of all techni[…]
[…]collection alongside the exhibit. 21.00 MW: During your time from the start of the Department as a department and your involvement in television production and supporting producers and so on,how much emphasis was there then on earning income for the Imperial War Museum out of that endeavour? Wa[…]
[…]ction, and that was that. But they had some generator problems one day with Barry Foster, and so it needed to be post sunk. And I been talking to the production manager down there, because we just went down there watching the great man work. And I said, Oh, you you realize that we're a sound studio […]
[…]e've interviewed Glen. R: Oh, I'm glad! I'm glad. But yeah, it was an exciting time because we were creating jobs, we were making Glasgow into a production centre and that was the most exhilarating period without a doubt! Without a doubt. [16:04] But then of course what began to happen was that[…]
[…]at Channel 4 was starting in 1982 and I saw an, and companies were just starting up and employing thirty people in one go and one of them was Diverse Production in Olympia although then they were based just off Oxford Street. And David Graham was a producer/director from Panorama and Jeremy Isaacs w[…]
[…]incidentally whereas commercials are, you know, a vitally important industry, they’ve kept the industry going and it’s essentially they or commercial productions, commercials production that has trained people, you know, so maybe Ridley Scott came up through commercials it wasn’t through working at […]
[…]n the Thames by Jack Warner.” Now every job that comes up is abroad. Shall we come back, because I’ve got a good story about an American, a Hollywood production?McG: Go on, tell us.HF: Well how it came up, Maude Spector again, who put me in Pickwick Papers, she said “I’ve got one for you, a nice job[…]