[…]nior position?Michael Aldridge  3:27  Yes, they did. Well, I worked mainly in news and current affairs in The Grove when I started with the BBC. I didn't spend much time at Ealing, it was mainly at The Grove. And then from The Grove, I went to Bristol and joined their film unit, which alth[…]
[…]und the studio.Roy Fowler: Well yes, the feel and also some of the characters. These were the years when Hitchcock was more or less a journeyman director...E.M. Smedley-Aston: Well Hitch left about the first or second year to go to Gaumont. And he did - he took with him a very extrovert ch[…]
[…]roducer go out when I was 21 in six months or something, I think and I would like to suggest that I'm still the youngest creditor producer on network BBC. But then with that came this thing about me at that age with all so many, so many people who were much, much more experience. I mean, a lot of my[…]
[…]we had three current affairs programmes on free-to-air television every week: ‘World-in-Action’ on a Monday, ‘This Week’ on a Thursday, ‘Panorama’ on BBC. So that .. this was an important job, it was a programme I wanted to work for. And I noticed that Cliff Morgan had become editor of ‘This Week’,&[…]
[…]the the a very interesting conversation er probably seven or eight years ago because we were getting very little ... straight forward rental from the BBC. And um ..... coming to think of it Alan I don’t think that is really for this (No, no fair enough, fairenough) For , f , it’s not really for for […]
[…]r correspondents, all their material was censored, definitely. Just aswe were in the Falklands with ITN. Every foot of it was censored and we were in Suez, the same,every foot had to go through the military sensor. It's hard to remember everything you didbecause you did so much. As a newsreel camera[…]
[…]ll all right Peter what about science fiction. So this guy actually took me under his wing and he taught me a heck of a lot. He was cameraman. He was director. He was everything but he took me and a few others under his wing and we started making his other science fiction film. And unfortunately he […]
[…]hot one feature film in which the principal actor, who shall be nameless, would not rehearse. And so when it came to what the scene was, you askedthe director. The soundman would say, "Well if he goes in that corner, will he say anything?" He'd say, "Well no I don't think - well he might." And this […]
