[…] Ritchie. And then there would be people coming in on special engagements if they wanted someone else like Reg Hughes, […]
[…] to the end of the war and the victory parade. Could you take us through maybe some of the major stories you covered after that and the major trips, especially if there are interesting anecdotes that Well, I'll tell you BFI, excuse me, I'm gonna Okay,Speaker 1 25:24 yes, well, I'll tell […]
[…]down in Sussex and now I believe has moved to Worthing and is part of Stowe Public School.RF: Did you enjoy school.VG: Not a lot.RF: Did you have any special subjects you were good at or loathed.VG: Not particularly, but what I do remember doing at school, I used to sneak down very early in the morn[…]
[…]e abstract figures dancing around and these were usually matched to a standard piece of music, a jinglely sort of thing.Roy Fowler: Library music? Or specially composed?Norman Fisher: Yes.Roy Fowler: Library. Did you have anything to do with working on those Len Lye films?Norman Fisher: Not really, […]
[…] to another company. We supplied the personnel. It was a special film for Princess Ashraf, who was the sister of […]
[…] as a rather low budget, rather sort of nuts and bolts film on the theory of the sound barrier. An entirely out of the blue I happen to see at a very specialised . Research film made by Let's go Jack North, who was a laboratory assistant to National Physical Laboratory. And it worked out an extraord[…]
[…] Leeds, so we had to cover that to make a special for Leeds, and they never saw Hitler and his […]
[…]almost like it was a...it was a drum rather than - it didn't have the handle at the back here.Fred Tomlin: That's right, yes.Bob Allen: So that was a special tubular thing made up for the boom?Fred Tomlin: Made up for the boom that's right yes. We used to mount it in there, slot it into it, that's r[…]
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[…]ed on July 6th 1939 and my wife came up to Newcastle. We'd had a bit of a tiff and she came up to see me so I said well let's get married. So I got a special licence unknown to anyone and one of the lads in the BBC was my best man, he's retired now,. We nipped out at lunchtime and we got married. Th[…]