[…]for and I thought, You know what, I've done this, I've done that pebble mill was the best place to go to get a broad spectrum, audio education in the BBC. I couldn't believe actually, and how lucky I was and a chap called Mike Tolbert Smith was one of our lecturers. They're very funny character. But[…]
[…] seven or eight sets which you redressed and redressed. PM: Until they wore out. That’s right. That was all at National Studios.DB: Which is now BBC.PM: Yeah. And we had one big stage as you say with the sets around, and then one end of it was green, with mountains.DB: For exteriors.PM: William[…]
[…] and went to tactical film and said, well, there's your film, there's only one thing I've got to ask and that is that john hollows name remains on as director. And Ireally thought it was such an injustice and quiteapart from this would have been nonsan absurd to have my name martyrs. Who the hell wa[…]
[…]use tape-recording wasn't even invented in those days and so they had to record on film if they wanted to repeat it, so that's the way I got into the BBC.DB. The maiden flight of Concorde... That sounds quite... When did Concorde begin to fly...MS. About 25 years ago, wasn't it?DB. 1 thought so... 1[…]
[…] transmit it. The RTS jury who awarded it the 2008 prize for ‘best observational documentary’ said “Extraordinary and absolutely outstanding, […]
[…]sp;0:07  Okay. The copyright of this recording is vested in the British entertainment history project.Okay, good thing. Today is Monday 20th of June 2016. The interviewee is Howard Lanning, president of the British cinema and television veterans, the interviewer is Derek Threadgall. And the cam[…]
[…]g review. Fair enough. [00:42:38] Shooting silent, I mean there was no... I'd done no sync shooting at all. But anyway, shooting silent. This is 1956. So I went there. I went to this village. It was about seven in the morning or something like that, and I went to the local cop shop, and went in[…]
[…]re, just the location. We were in India a 10ng time, it took a long time to get there. Osmond Borradaile was the cameraman. Geoffrery Boothby was the director. That was the whole unit. We didn't take sound or any actors. We went there to shoot all the battle scenes. They were big scale and to do a 1[…]
[…]ry Jack Hawkins and detective story. And after that, it was announced at the end of that was announced that the studio was closing, being sold to the BBC. And we were tipped off. So you boys are okay, you will come with us to MGM. And that's great, got no problem. And I was the only person left in t[…]
