[…]d camera in the camera room, it was an old Bell and Howell and it was not the type of clapper gate that you had the clips for but you had to undo two scripts to take it out. And it was known as the Ideal, I think because it had come from Ideal pictures. There was that and I examined that thoroughly […]
[…] So when I arrived there was a kind of a script, which I think Angus and John Dighton had done, […]
[…] could make them, and I often wrote, usually, my own scripts and many, looking back, I know were controversial, some […]
[…] a ssistant director called Newman disappeared, and there was a script writer called Bettison, I always remember him, very gentle […]
[…] set and John was sitting there and he had this script and Orson had . Decided to rewrite his scene. […]
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BEHP 0167T Johnny Speight Transcript JOHNNY SPEIGHT Scriptwriter Interviewed by Norman Swallow with Alan Lawson, recorded on 26 November 1990. The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project SIDE 1, TAPE 1 Alan Lawson: First of all when and where were you born Johnny Speight: C[…]
[…] Lawson: Well not only that, but you're working to a script. It's written down. I could do that.[laughs] John Turner: […]
[…] myself. They were mostly fairy stories. They gave you a script to work from, within a few days I had […]