[…].Roy Fowler 3:56 CM, CMJonathan Balcon 9:43 CM Wolf sorry, CM Wolf yes, I do get names wrong. He formed with Victor Saville a production company making advertising films. This was in 1919 and it was not unnaturally called The Victory Motion Picture Company. And Victor Saville[…]
[…] Highgate 20:00 place, and he encouraged me to go into television, and so I applied for a job in television. And I got a job as, what was then, production secretary, it was called and my first job, this was working on ‘This Is Your Life’ with T. Leslie Jackson; who died about six months ago, I[…]
[…]signed to Henry the fifth. And I spent the remaining seven weeks working on Henry the fifth.Interviewer 17:39 That was they were still in production and there wasn't post production.Geoff Labram 17:42 None of this was post production, that the term post production, if you rec[…]
[…]with the commercials side. And, secondly all the shooting of those were done in Paris. They had a studio in France but their cutting and all the post production was done in London. So when I was working with him which was in Clarges Street in Mayfair, they had the cutting rooms in the basement. […]
[…]So, I was taken on and was posted to TV Centre and found myself in, what was then called, television recording department which nowadays we call post-production. That encompassed videotape operations and telecine and film work and transmission and that sort of thing. So that’s the department I found[…]
[…]working in huge shows. There was automation coming in. There was no extra money. So I dreamt up this thing that still goes on to this day, called pre-production meeting. So I said, “Well, what we should have is, is a pre-production meeting. And every pre-production meeting, we get extra money for we[…]
[…] wanted to do, we wanted to turn VTR into a production tool, we didn't like the idea of just recording […]
[…] anything else for that matter, would phase automatically. We thought this was the answer, because what we wanted to do, we wanted to turn VTR into a production tool, we didn't like the idea of just recording and transmitting, anybody could do that. As long as they knew how the machines worked and d[…]
[…]ures in England in that period, features and all kinds of things. Oh yes, he was a busy man.Roy Fowler: There was a fairly healthy English or British production organisation at that time, was there not?Eddie Dryhurst: Well it was struggling to be born in a sense I think. There were a lot of fly-by-n[…]
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