[…]m they’ve got the RKO symbol in the background and I suggested that there was an easy way to make the lightning flashes work. The RKO symbol was this radio tower mast with lightning flashes. So how to do that on the set of the film, I came up with a solution which I think was effective and simple. I[…]
[…] But technology has now improved, they can put mics on them and God knows what else. And there was a very funny situation, talking about mics on, the radio mikes on the set, where on a certain picture a gentleman who had been a little bit naughty with a lady of the night and caught a little disease […]
[…]alf an hour, slowly realising and saying to them Well, I think we've seen this before. Have we seen this before? Yes, yes, it must. And I look at the Radio Times. And sure enough, it's a repeat and I have seen it before. Why did it take me half an hour? To realise that I'd seen it before? Why do the[…]
[…] three of us. And our routine used to be, at five o'clock in the morning, we would get up and we would listen to 'The Voice of America' on his little radio and then we would listen to the news from Britain, the BBC news, so that was our source of information. And then 'till about nine o'clock we wou[…]
[…]how to do things, and also a lot of things, how not to do. I mean, it was a funny mixture. But he was a brilliant producer, and an Associate Director radio. But a translator was the first one I made every transplants case, which was wells appeared in the omad, which was quite an experience. And then[…]
[…]ms : We didn't do... that wasn't the sort of camouflage I did. That's more the ordinary sort of camouflage. No, the camouflage I did was camouflaging radio sets...making uniforms, German uniforms, putting explosives into camel dung, dead rats... [Laughs]Rodney Giesler : So it was more disguise than […]
[…]it over, and we picked 90 in the stage. That had to be a good guess, you see. And a funny thing is, I heard two days after we had settled on that the Radio Corporation, no, not Radio Corporation, the Acoustic Society of America and thetechnicians or someone of America. I forget who it was. Stan[…]
[…] else apart from this. I don't know what I would have done. I can't imagine any other job that I would have fitted in to! I've done a bit of hospital radio. I've done a bit of radio work as well but that's more of a hobby than as a career move although at one time, in '91, I nearly did go into radio[…]
[…] and work elsewhere so I’ll need a ticket’, you know what I mean. So, so there were those areas of friction and there was some friction in commercial radio a bit but it wasn’t very, very significant so that’s what they were like. And NATKE was really, what was NATKE? NATKE was really just [Paus[…]
[…] the BBC and that’s where the relationship with the National Archives comes into play and that goes, well certainly, for television programme output, radio programme output, certain parts of the music operation. They’re quite beyond the BBC’s interests and usage and I don’t think that’s ever b[…]
