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[…] the years when Hitchcock was more or less a journeyman director... E.M. Smedley-Aston: Well Hitch left about the first or second […]

[…]y don't you go and into the BBC, and try and get into directing through editing? Well, I hadn't thought of that. And I had no idea how I got into the BBC. But it turned out that there was an advertisement for trainee assistant film editors. SoUnknown Speaker  5:00  I thought well, nothing […]

[…]d…One thing I remember.Mm.And I didn’t really see it in its full strength until I went to ITV much later on…No, yes.Was the enormous resources of The BBC.Oh yes.In every department you could think of.Yes.Music.Yes.Research, mm, mm, libraries.Mm, the lot, yes.Engineering.Yes.I mean everything you can[…]

[…] I might not put down the exact thing that I'd had to pay for, I was only recovering money I'd spent on behalf of Movietone - a lot like later in the BBC. Reno Wideson was shattered to find that that was my belief. And I never really tried to con them over expenses, or anything. And it annoyed me pa[…]

[…] Er I...I asked you...Any particularly memorable coverages? Cyril Page: Well, Suez was one. Er... Alan Lawson: Yes... Cyril Page: We […]

[…] should add he wasn't getting on very well with the director. At the rehearsal stage I think things had not gone […]

[…]r radar side, he was an absolute BrainBox. Very, very clever. And we both got demobbed more or less at the same time, I managed to get a job with the BBC. And Gordon went to work for Granada Television in Manchester, he lived in Manchester, so it was sort of natural, I suppose for him. So we both we[…]

[…]on: Yeah, yeah...Cyril Page: Yeah.[Break in recording]Alan Lawson: Right. Er I...I asked you...Any particularly memorable coverages?Cyril Page: Well, Suez was one. Er...Alan Lawson: Yes...Cyril Page: We were allocated er when the Suez started. Er...There was er...We had to fly to Cyprus. I...I went […]

[…]ilms I think is the same. So, at this stage I Arthur was an I left freelance to fend for ourselves. I by this time that got married. I was married in 1956. And just before we leave film partnership I'm eternally grateful to Michael John's because his wife, Margaret, and my wife, Jean, were young gir[…]