Derek Threadgall

[…] pictures for next year's.SPEAKER: M11Centenary of UK cinema. I'm hoping to get that done because that was done that yet to my knowledge not complete programme on Saturday morning pictures. It was an absolute experience. Anyone who cared or didn't go.SPEAKER: M6I think missed out on a hell of a lot […]

Graham Smart

[…]ll just quickly read something from a book which actually is probably easier. Actually, this is a film we made for Imperial Tobacco. It was the first programme and it was 73 that one that was mediaeval that. Yes, soManny Yospa  1:01  any grammeso we're gonna start learning the second one C[…]

John Schlesinger

[…]r: It got me so to speak with an interview with Cecil McGivern        Norman Swallow: For the record, head of programmes John Schlesinger: Yes he was head of programmes. And he obviously must have mentioned me to Grace Wyndham-Goldie of talks because I wa[…]

Lindsay Anderson

[…] add a personal footnote, you've reminded, you mentioned Denis Forman earlier, at that time I was at the BBC, Denis was still at the BFI and we did a programme about the Edinburgh Film Festival that particular year, it must have been 1954. I remember at Denis and I viewing most of the things that we[…]

Dennis Kimbley

[…]s available. So of course, Kodak then who had been doing work on high speed motions, but not was not necessarily for promotional picture, had a crash programme. then six months later, we came out with a high speed film, but that was the first time since an introduction of colour that Kodak had had t[…]

John Shirley

[…]dependent 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 little bit more so that was about they ha[…]

Rudolph (Rudi) Cartier

[…] is Midnight Dr Schweitzer. And I was hired for that, in the middle of my preparations I was called to Cecil McGivern,Norman Swallow: Who was head of programmesRudi Cartier: Who was god, and he said would you like to be in a permanent job with us. And I said certainly, And I was glad to be in a perm[…]

Barbara (Bimbi) Harris

[…] the rules of the time. And a great big fug it used to get up there, all smoking in that gallery up there. Of course, one day we were doing an animal programme and a skunk got away and it got into the control room. For days we had this skunk! [Laughter]RF: What was the personnel of the control room?[…]
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