[…]:15 On Michael holding on British are more exactly English with a bit of Irish learning.Unknown Speaker 0:23 I've been a television programme maker for the past 50 years, always freelance. And of course, being freelance has advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand, you don't h[…]
[…] Film distributors, I think had contempt for short films weren't interested in them. They were merely interested in making something which filled the programme. While people took their seats or left their seats on board ice creams, I went to the television, I'm sorry, went to the toilet. Or were sha[…]
[…] advertise, but in those days thecinema was their main forum.[20:06]Oh yes, quite.As in...And people enjoyed trailers didn’t they, it was part of the programme?Esther Harris. Tape 1 Side A19Esther Harris. Tape 1 Side AOh the trailer was terribly important to them in those days it really was. The Nat[…]
[…]hen I actually worked in, for BBC Enterprises at Bush House. And I was doing foreign versions for them and I was, we were working on a currentaffairs programme, I don’t know whether, I can’t remember if it was actuallyPanorama it was certainly if not it something like Panorama. Whethe[…]
[…]r tracks probably in the cutting room on a hard disk system, you just take it along to the sound mixer and in half an hour or an hour you've got your programme. I don't see it coming into the feature film side just at this stage. The Russians have been trying to develop something in digital sound. Y[…]
[…] thrill a few years ago when there was a BBC programme called Scarpa Flow, the history of the naval base […]
[…]oration, you had the problem that they carried out many layers of digital restoration without recording what they’d done, you know, used dust-busting programmes which get rid of white spots but they also get rid of little white footballs or white spots in your eyes and things, and unless you record […]
[…]re was a wonderful inspiration in our department called Harry Cooper and Harry was quite good at keeping people grounded, you know. If you could do a programme about Harry himself, those sayings, you know. Harry had had a career in the shipyards and that sort of foreman mentality of bringing up a yo[…]
