[…]ell: Silent movies. 'Kissing Cups Race', which was later converted to sound.Roy Fowler: Yes. Who were some of the technicians, then, in the senior positions? Heads of departments?Vernon Sewell: Well Geoffrey Faithfull was a cameraman and his assistant was Arthur Grant, who became quit[…]
[…] can get when you go through what we went through, you know I was solid muscle, very fit. I was used to commanding men. I was used to commanding very senior people in a foreign language. We had won the war, don't forget, I'd served with a very fine regiment, I'd been through Sandhurst, Hugh Greene h[…]
[…], wanted to do that for something like, I think about, he had a budget of about 600,000 for that, and he, he wanted, he wanted see, I think was Simon senior a to play, to play, Mr. Go forth and, and I know, and it may have been James Fox to play, to play, the the angel of death. And anyway, nobody w[…]
[…]lled Late Extra a newspaper story - you can probably tell so from the title! Others I remember at Wembley at that time, Reggie Beck who was a sort of senior editor. Under him he had Peter Tanner I remember and others whose names I forget. The cameramen principally were a man called Williams who late[…]
[…]; Alan Lawson 5:07 Paul Terry. Bill Ward 5:07 Who was, Terry was a sound, wasn't he? Yes, senior sound. But he also ran the controller, to all intents and purposes yes, Alan Lawson 5:15 Mercurial character,&[…]
[…]ry long hours and I know you did you do a lot of overtime.SPEAKER: M3Well let's put it this way. Michael liked to do a lot of overtime and so. My two senior assistants Barbara Bennett and Irene Langer both had commitments or families or whatever and went to anchors to work long hours and so I was al[…]
[…]and give them a drink and they would insult you and so you getI must say that when I became the head of light entertainment or indeed when I became a senior variety producer there were quite a lot of people who quite wished they'd been slightly nicer to me, when I'd been queuing outside their dressi[…]
[…]e? Er you know before you started work?Dallas Bower 01:35No none whatsoever. My interest in radio was sparked off at Hurst by a senior boy who was given permission to work on a small valve set, which in those days of course was something very precious and that really sparked of[…]
