[…]gure - and also of course the North America figure (and other global markets) - the Studio hierarchy would decide to green light some of their future production slate as they knew (with reasonable accuracy) how much revenue would be flowing in from their current films out playing in Cinemas. Th[…]
[…]rama. Panorama went on…I was…the Talks Department then became the Talks and Current Affairs Department, divided into three departments, Tonight productions…I mean, this was the time…by that…this was the time when Donald Baverstock went up the road to Television Centre to become the Assistant t[…]
[…]not long afterwards at the age of 39. He was a highly talented person who like all of us all, of us in features um was really involved in drama production because the work that we did although it was nominally geared to contemporary reality or even historical reality was actually performed wit[…]
[…]for creations of emulsions, and to understand the coating aspects of it. Many of the guys from where I would be as an apprentice, would end up on the production lines as supervisory roles, that kind of thing, because your levels of expertise would be above the general guys coming in. So it was a tra[…]
[…]uble check everything you do. Never take any for granted. Just check it again to make certain is correct. So I can see, maybe I see at the end of the production. I hope we can so. Anyhow, I managed to do that, and there was a very exciting start, I think, because having worked with beginning, the gr[…]
[…] who was first assistant but he was almost immediately made production manager, Fred Gun n, who became an elder brother. He […]
[…]as good time good time because right at the time it was 50 58.SPEAKER: M258 right. Of course were going great guns at the time in terms of their film production and distribution. And of course they had the clout the films I had Genevieve and doctor the house but they were also distributing Universal[…]
[…]oup, which was really, I went there for training when I was younger and then I joined a group, and we did Midsummer Night’s Dream. It was a good production, wasn’t it John?JPH: Yes.DS: And I played Puck in that, as an adult.Well, Puck I can understand, but The Tempest would be a bit o[…]
[…]part of a camera team. You then got the experience, but you'd had all the background to start with.Interviewer 3:16 Do you think that the production techniques changed from the time you started to the time you became qualified within the BBC, taking on a senior position?Michael Aldridge […]
