[…]t took place. Anything do with personalities at all I can never recollect and I was there from the very beginning I produced and directed the opening programme and I think I was there on the last night when the service closed. And what I was, in fact because a production of mine was takin[…]
[…]ar, super Marine 535 I think it was, and how will we to shoot it because the Minister of supply said, we can't interrupt our training and our testing programme. They were testing this aircraft, which looked lovely, it's the star of the film. And so the pilots, Mike lisco, in this case, said don't wo[…]
[…]e Olivier, fantastic archive research, tremendous range of interviews, many of whom of course are now long dead. So, it is an extraordinary series of programmes that is still available.Now, Palestine, we worked on the same principle. We bought, where we could, rights in perpetuity, but there was lot[…]
[…]al period and not...so we had to do it with practically no rehearsal time at all. [Laughs] And that was a chaotic muddle.John Legard: You do pick the programmes don't you! [Laughter.]Peggy Gick: But these Germans [???] and in fact the first set we dressed - two German prop boys got the set dressed b[…]
[…]far as I can get as far as I can judge. I think I was born where the Festival Hall cinema is today. What year was that? 1926 19. And I actually did a programme once the cinema the you know, the festival did our kinda festival the British cinematographers and I ran some films there. And I found mysel[…]
[…]hell Film Unit asked me to join them, in particular, to do an investigation of a possible film for the EU, un the United Nations technical assistance programme. It was a film on the importance of what was nowadays called technology transfer, technical assistance in various forms of development in Eu[…]
[…]Hayworth film called My Gal Sal, and the critics gave hell to My Gal Sal, and to be smart and snide about the picture they said the best thing on the programme was a Ministry of Information short called The Nose Has It, which was sheer luck. So I went into Maurice Ostrer and said “look, how about me[…]
[…]ork and the American festivals, the one that I probably remember most is being Runner-up for the Prix Italia in – think – 1978, that long ago, with a programme called ‘Test Tube Explosion’. At that time I’d been for some years interested in reproductive medicine and we had recorded the birth of Loui[…]
[…]ng men with foreign languages. Bingo! So at 17 I went up to Broadcasting House. And I think I had three interviews altogether and was made a Recorded Programmes Assistant. Vital.[Side 1, 11:05] NS: That's a technical job is it?11:08 DMW: No. Thank you for the question.NS: Please explain,[…]
[…] because we felt we didn't want anyone from the BBC, wewanted to start a fresh slate, so we wanted either an American or a Canadian to train Granada'sprogramme and technical people and we found David Lowe from the United States and a guy calledGuy Mitchell from Canada and we booked them to come over[…]
