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[…]g was there. This was the great Gilbert Harding, it was during that time that the great Gilbert Harding story about going across to America to buy whisky which he couldn't get in Canada, and as he went over the border they made you sign a document and in it is written I do solemnly swear that I will[…]

[…]ost at the rear. It had a, instead of the academy aperture plate, it was a circular aperture plate. And then Technicolor used to make the film of the sky with an airplane up in the sky. And then, of course, that was projected onto the dome to give it a realistic effect that it was the sky. And then […]

[…]d. Now it's a terrible, terrifying story that you hear of Russia and places where, shall we say, Stalin's name is obliterated from everything, or Trotsky his name, or his even his picture is taken out of still photographs. But you could have these two very interesting countries where I filmed as the[…]

[…]right. After about another half hour Jack Courteney, an American organist, very good organist rolled in. He had a brown paper bag with a bottle of whisky in it and I could see the flask in his back pocket. I said Mr Courteney, he said who are you, I said Peter Tanner I've just started, would you lik[…]

[…]nbsp;far from madding crowd, and I got a couple of nominations I did. I got nomination for our friends in the north, and the 20,000 streets under the sky.Unknown Speaker  20:55  SoUnknown Speaker  20:57  I was with Roger with Roger and persuasion. I mean, I was lucky. Lucky to ge[…]

[…], again, another steep learning curve. Then there was the thing about this whole thing about at that point, nobody knew what a satellite was, I mean, sky had come out. And the they had 16 channel analogue channels on that. And the of those only five or six were English, because the rest were German.[…]

[…]ed floor you take the paint off very very easily Top of the Pops that with that pans people found that out don't have people dancing when there's dry sky because there'll be slipping or cherry picks all over it because it takes the floor paint I think they got late to paint which was better but at t[…]

[…]nagement in TV stations didn't manage. It was the Unions who did the management for them. So all these changes and also, looming up was the threat of Sky and subscription television and a different model and advertising beginning to run down and all of these things were happening so ITV knew it had […]

[…]ht well when you go on a picture and it's long way away, it's like when I went on Thunderbirds, went there and got digs. And I'd got an old Hillman Husky so I'd drive over Arkley to Borehamwood and I'd land at this huge big studio and there's this great big car park and you'd have to go through secu[…]