Hugh Stewart

[…] things were being shown, sketches were being shown on American television, and he was killing himself laughing, but the Americans […]

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[…] the stories of men and women working in the UK film, television, theatre, and radio industries to ensure that information on their lives […]

Kenneth Allan Patrick Coyle

[…]f just what the web content was actually about at that stage because you seem to be painting a picture of something which is really changing, the way television is changing from a, if you like, the old model of showing the programmes when it is convenient for the television channel to On Demand so w[…]

Norman J Warren

[…]eatest of films but the one thing it did do, it made an enormous amount of money. It sold literally everywhere and it was on at one cinema, The Cameo Royale in Charing Cross Road for over a year, running every day of the week, making money. It was on the front of the Daily Cinema, as it was then, it[…]

Howard Lanning

[…]rtainment history project.Okay, good thing. Today is Monday 20th of June 2016. The interviewee is Howard Lanning, president of the British cinema and television veterans, the interviewer is Derek Threadgall. And the camera man, Steve booksmith. Look good so far. Okay. And we were put in here is thre[…]

Jim Whittell

[…]p;    Q:  Papillon?00:53:14        JIM WHITTELL:  Papillon.  Now Papillon we had the television rights to and the licence was just about to run out so I went to see the owner who happened to live in Paris with a view to rebuying - I we[…]

Ray Harryhausen

[…]y. Yeah. So you you made uh three sections is that right for the mother goose which you then strung together.SPEAKER: M8Yes they were separate items. Television was just coming and I thought I would make them for schools and I uh I went around to different schools to see what they would like to see.[…]

David Croft

[…]  Well, I'm when I was in one of the musicals I met my my first partner, Cyril Ornade and when we started writing songs, and in those days, television used a lot of original material in the musical shows, in a Saturday show, for instance, it was boat race day or if somebody was coming over[…]
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