[…]mselves as it is for what they've just seen. In fact, in many cases they sang it. Well, now, an extraordinary thing happened. This film was the first Royal Command Performance ever given of any film. It was put on by the Davises, who ran that huge theatre at Croydon, and built the great big Shepherd[…]
[…]. Just about this time the Empire Marketing Board started up. Their main source of material were the off cuts from a film made by Roger Crichton of a Royal visit made to various parts of the empire and there was quite a lot of material on Canada, well at the outset John Taylor , Basil Wright , J.D T[…]
[…] Page 25carried on, a new idea, it was a very early thing this, presumably because it’s the earlysixties, they did a video van, they were called television vans, I think, and the idea was that they had telecine in them so that they could show films and they had a little interview place and they[…]
[…]nd arguing with these people over what was due to me. I took it to the agent and they took the 10% out.Wyn Ryder: Have you ever been involved in television.Reggie Beck: No.Wyn Ryder: Not even films made for television.Reggie Beck: No. I don't think so.Wyn Ryder: What is your[…]
[…]terrible, they were really very bad because he hadn't had time to do them.Fowler/Lawson: What do you think of present-day films? I don't mean on television, I mean in the cinema.Bill Girdlestone: Well, I don't go, but what I see on the box it looks as though they've given the dolly pusher […]
[…]rn day TV series in the way they make them. Have you any idea?Eric Cross: I've never worked on a series, I don't know. I made about four pictures for television in Germany, in Hamburg and Berlin but they were made under ordinary feature picture conditions.Arthur Graham: What cameramen with whom you […]
[…] we plan to interview Will Wyatt, former BBC Director of Television. We are please that Will has also agreed to […]
[…] When BBC Birmingham outgrew its first base on Broad Street, television production moved to the old Delicia Cinema on Gosta […]
[…] When BBC Birmingham outgrew its first base on Broad Street, television production moved to the old Delicia Cinema on Gosta […]