[…]h growing vegetables, because we were encouraged very much to grow our own vegetables, people dug up lawns and so on. Anyhow, from film purposes, the Royal Horticultural Society, made available a section of their gardens to represent the average allotment. And we went filming there once a week, for […]
[…]strip. FL: Many of the were Technichrome. Anyhow, in course we did the Royal Wedding and the Coronation for Castleton Knight as well, the 53 Coronation. AC: When you both became pla[…]
[…]aker 22:58 I tell you something else too, that during the war, we went over to Walton, oh, yes, yes. And they were doing a thing with the Royal Air Force there,Unknown Speaker 23:10 and we got over there in the morning and they said, was it Walton or Wharton? Walton on Walton[…]
[…]ey Cole: Because films were much more - cinemas were bulked much more largely in the whole social situation weren't they?Jack Rockett: You hadn't got television.Sidney Cole: You hadn't got television, you hadn't got bingo.Jack Rockett: Yes bingo came after.Sidney Cole: It came after, yeah.Jack Rocke[…]
[…]e man.DM: Then I went to Shepperton, that was when ITV was starting and the year before they wanted to stockpile some stuff, do you remember?1. Early television and The PrisonerSC: That's right, it was earlier than 60s, that was about 55.DM: In the beginning not many girls wanted to do series, they […]
[…]nswers have not been always extremely satisfactory, therefore it is not a healthy state of an industry which says to itself we have a future. Now the television as I understand it is a very different thing because it is based on licenses and at the end of the period the material comes back to the pr[…]
[…] in 1927 made illegal. They would decide on a programme and pictures - mostly subjects that were in the public domain, so they didn't have to pay any royalties or rights, and then they would announce this series in the trade papers and start taking bookings on them. And when they reached nine hundre[…]
[…]up editors.Peter Tanner: I did have one or two, my assistants were Jimmy Jympson one and John Victor Smith another, Harry Alders who's at Anglia Television a high up editor there, Seth Holt, there were quite a few who have always done quite well. But we didn't move people up much there. For ins[…]
[…]that sound has taken over from silent film, you know with titles.RF: What’s your opinion of this new move, especially in the States, to colourize for television …FY: Oh I think it’s a terrible idea. Bloody awful idea. Ridiculous. And I’m no part of that.RF: Do you think the people origin[…]
[…] When BBC Birmingham outgrew its first base on Broad Street, television production moved to the old Delicia Cinema on Gosta […]
