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Charles Picken  -  My Cinema LifeCHAPTER ONE - MY FORMATIVE YEARSFrom my earliest childhood the magic of the Cinema had been firmly entrenched in my life. In those days television had not yet begun its inexorable march into the living rooms of the nation and the weekly visit, or in my fort[…]

[…]an episode of not going out. But I haven't done a lot of multicam because not a lot of it around now, to be honest, because there used to be a lot of sitcoms a lot of a lot of comedies and not really so many now and if they are they're short on digitally single camera, or not so much single camera, […]

[…]r the situation comedy was by a writer called Larry Stevens, who was Hancock's really good friend and early writer, and he came up with the idea of a sitcom of Tony Hancock as an estate agent. And it was called vacant Not and it nearly got to production. But there was a decision to make about whethe[…]

[…]ir, for things like feature films and documentaries, and such like, and also with film play-ins to studios, film inserts to studios. The exteriors of sitcoms, and the like, would be shot on film and then played into the studio on cue, and that sort of thing. Film editing and production was concentra[…]

[…]ced, I quite like that fact of, of, you know, Reg Varney [ph] show one night, Please Sir, there was this big think of getting popular comedy, popular sitcoms, massively popular, somewhat crap and racist now but some were, you know, there was a real, there were mass audiences, you know any er, but no[…]

[…]ove it.CJ: Mm. [agrees] CJ: I think that was , yeah. Edith Pretty. But there have been ones like that, yeah. Hence this wonderful sitcom about detectorists, that’s on TV now. MW: In the world of film you’ve mentioned – in fact we’ve had a discussion, I think you ha[…]

BECTU History Project - Interview No. 431[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: TBCInterview Date: 1998-03-25Interviewer: Alan LawsonInterviewee: David Robson[Tape 1, Side 1]The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. David Robson, one time cinema projectionist, television […]