Manny Yospa

[…] out later. One thing, in those days, any of these special effects we had to do ourselves in the camera […]

David Prosser

[…] I think was either... I think it was [Argos???] at the time) er, a free French Navy fouring[?] captain - um, in a civilian aeroplane, which had been specially brought for the occasion - French civilian aeroplane - to fly to Dakar, land and parley with the Commanding General there. This poor chap wa[…]

Interview

[…]available until after five, that's overtime. If there's a story that happened after five which ITN wanted to cover - that's overtime. And there was a special arrangement with ITN where ITN paid a minimum guaranteed amount of money for any given job so if a job was an ITN, we used to fight to do it! […]

Gerry Anstiss

[…]stey. His name was he was Assistant General Secretary of the musicians union in the end. And I was taught the violin. And through the violin, I won a special talent scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music. When I was about eight and a half, nine, and that special talent scholarship paid for my sch[…]

Charles W. Smith

[…]y early in 1950, and he had about 14 months to master the technique of stereoscopic filming and produce the program of films, as well as building the special cinema, the Telekinema, on the South Bank site, which was a quite a unique building. The architect was Wells Coates, and this building had to […]

Roy Fowler

[…] war is just about over.  I suppose I should add that I was a mad campaigner for the Labour campaign, the Labour Party in the ’45 election especially with Peter Cotes, who was the third Boulting brother and I kind of road Peter’s coat-tails dashing from meeting to meeting where he was a ve[…]

Emmanuel (Manny) Yospa

[…]ckling] Oh yes and also when he took his things of he had black - which we sort of, the labs sorted out later. One thing, in those days, any of these special effects we had to do ourselves in the camera in the labs. There was none of the electronic stuff or the marvellous things they do now.Charles […]

John Daly

[…]ipment, and then managed to get hold of an HD camera. And I use one of those menus because when there was a guy BBC called Alan Roberts who had these special menus for HD, which sort of gave you slightly extended range, which give you more more filmic slightly filmic look, tweaked the menu and gave […]

David Robson

[…] love it! And the other thing that we had on special days was, we used to buy a thing called […]

Joy Cuff (née Seddon)

[…]wn the stables from about 9... well, you know, little girls could go down and do things like that in those days... and so I used to draw animals and especially horses and I was really quite good at them. And Doris Cinicin[?] who was a Victorian female and Rosa Bonheur who was also a female and femal[…]
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