Francis Searle

[…] the list is, is an extensive one. You seem to a lot more than people, many people inSpeaker 1  21:32  but it has, I've had a bit back from television. But of course, in those days, you've had to give everything away, a copyright all part of anything you couldn't Well, this is so happens t[…]

Oswald (Ossie) Morris

[…]ugh it was from the Queens of the Kings through King I think in those days private secretary a summoning Eliot to Buckingham Palace to photograph the royal family. He wrote this thing and it was damn time everything. And Elliot was so naive about this because he gave Elliot this note in front of eve[…]

ARMSTRONG, Moira BECTU copy

[…] by the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell (Principal Investigator, […]

Gordon Courcha

[…]they said was, what grade are you? Well, my grade was zero. SoUnknown Speaker  6:25  I ended up one radio and links. And that really wasn't television.Unknown Speaker  6:32  And I saw an advertisement for staff at a TV.Unknown Speaker  6:38  And I applied for the job wh[…]

Moira Armstrong

This transcription was provided in 2015 by the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell (Principal Investigator, Leeds University) and Dr Vicky Ball (Co-Investigator, De Montfort University). BECTU History Project Interview no: N/K Inte[…]

Betty Willingale

[…], what I hated was what I called piebald productions.Oh.Which was where you had…Yes.Video tape interiors.Yes, indeed.And 16mm exteriors.That’s awful, royal telly silly. [Laughter]Yes. And I, for about ten years I managed to persuade my employers, whichever producer it was...Oh yes.The BBC or Thames […]

Michael (Mickey) Hickey

[…]rkers Union are saying, 'no' you can't have the job, because you learnt the trade in England." So, fair enough. So anyway, I stayed on at The Theatre Royal. Then I heard about a cinema in Belfast - Union Cinemas, Border Street, were opening up The Ritz, Belfast. So I wrote to the chief engineer - it[…]

Derek Threadgall

[…] I was in the States but it was what was going on in the theatre and there was cross-fertilization.SPEAKER: M16Tony Richardson for example was at the Royal Court and also at Shepperton and on West go the royal court in the Royal Court was spawning so many of these characters. And I'm glad they did. […]

Dennis Kimbley

[…]styDennis Kimbley  37:54  Oh, yes, they were indeed. Deliberately shot that way as well. And it was blue black. But if you looked against a royal blue black, which is unusual, you would then see the difference. And also, I mean, there was the film products were known mostly by numbers rath[…]
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