[…]out to find prisoners of war and so on. He was put in the bag for the last few weeks of the Italian war and then he became a civilian. He was a senior adviser on defence to the Canadian government for years after the war and he remained a robust and powerful, um, well what would I say: cultura[…]
[…] “Oh, I don’t know, he lives somewhere in Portland Place.” “The number?” “No, I have no idea of the number.” There were these senior executives striking matches and lighting cigarette lighters, walking along Portland Place seeing where Lord Goodman lived. Eventually, 12[…]
[…]y of those, and the so-called sound cameramen were Paul Wyand, who's was far and away the sort of ace of the lot, Jack Cotter, who was basically, the senior newsreel man, and Alf Tunwell, they worked with sound cameras - their soundman being respectively Derek Stiles with Paul Wyand, Martin Gray, I […]
[…]technician. I said then how would you like to go into the editing side because Marcus had a, her name was I think Simpson, her husband was one of the senior technicians at Kays, anyway mother Simpson took Anthony under her wing and he blossomed from that. Then eventually he said he thought he'd got […]
[…]d I'd made copious notes on the script about where the camera should be. They could do it in their sleep, they didn't need notes. Until one night the senior cameraman, Jimmy Stewart (there were several Jimmy Stewarts at STV by the way), Jimmy Stewart of the Camera Department, after a normal rehearsa[…]
[…]I was a war correspondent wouldn't accept that I was an Army man and these senior British officers said look you ought to say you're an army your captain. […]
[…] The Blue Danube', because this was Johann Strauss junior, not senior. So within a week of that, Mr Falkner - […]
[…] was I think Simpson, her husband was one of the senior technicians at Kays, anyway mother Simpso n took Anthony […]
[…]stage as she's going backstage, dancers coming in from the wings, you know - dancing to The Blue Danube', because this was Johann Strauss junior, not senior. So within a week of that, Mr Falkner - again quite right to what he said - got in touch with me. He said - their number one house was the Stol[…]
[…]oing it. And as I say, I think I was more impressed meeting him than anybody else I’ve ever met.
Was he ferocious to his other, you know, his more senior staff? Because you said that Perce Pearce was terrified of departing from the storyboard. Was that, was because it had been proven[??] [inaudib[…]