[…] gotten a momopoly but I wanted to try and get into colour so they were making a film called a Magic Box in 1951 the. Year anniversary means for free screenings on Jack Cardiff was photographing in one of the Boulting's was directing. Ronnie was producing it and I asked Ronnie if I could if there's […]
[…] there had been a terrific outcry about violence on the screen, and ours was the next high profile Granada programme. […]
[…] of an up and coming chap and I think we screened Every Day Except Christmas for him and afterwards Nic […]
[…] them deliberately through the theatre, pausing awhile to watch the screen and sense the atmosphere, and then bluntly out into […]
[…]STV and twenty-five years at STV. I: Yeah, OK, so that was when you went into Oracle. That was like the STV version of Ceefax, it was like an on-screen text kind of thing? R: Yes, it was a regional news and sports service. Everything had to be written in ninety words or less and we were th[…]
[…]he annually, we'd go to the theater at the king's theater, as you would know. But the thing I loved most was going to see a big musical on the silver screen.Mike Dick 15:23 Do you remember some of thoseSpeaker 1 15:26 South Pacific, Oklahoma, Sound of Music, my fair lady. I m[…]
[…] little trapdoor opened beside the organ and the manager said he had golf. What do you think you're doing is ever look and see what's going on in the screen. And he said follow it. So I looked up, and it was Charlie Chaplin doing that thing. Then he looked and he had to sit and play this way, solidl[…]
[…]n to 1961, I wanted to add a name to the illustrious list of people who were in The Cruel Sea; of course, Donald Sinden,[70] with whom I had my first screen kiss, although I’m sure it was probably – I was quite nervous and shy and—JR: It must be one of the most difficult things.VM: Yes, the first ti[…]
[…]other people and I felt that whe n the lights when the house lights dimmed and the census certificate came up on the on the on the curtains or on the screen depending on which way the projection is cheaper just want to play it presentation. And you were transported into another world. Which of cours[…]