[…]er?Speaker 2  34:23  Or did you ever get that close? I think must have a card, really.Unknown Speaker  34:30  He was producer and director.Unknown Speaker  34:31  Was he? Yes, he's a very nice man, and he always thought about the crew a lot. For instance, when we went o[…]
[…]od and I'd pick up all these reprints and cut them in, that was my job, and then I did some work on some tests for Alan Dwan on a picture called Suez with Tyrone Power and Annbella, it was a very interesting period.Roy Fowler: When I was working in the States in the 50s an American fr[…]
[…]r, and there were young ladies around. I thought these guys are onto something, so I went and had a word with them, and found they all worked for the BBC. And of course, they're all on the AP shift system, which is a seven day fortnight. So you had three days off one week and four days off the next.[…]
[…] but nothing changed, did he still get his salary?00:39:02       JIM WHITTELL: He got the salary as finance director.                       &nb[…]
[…]on’t get a lot of parts with an accent.SF: No, of course, not.So he’d gone and taken elocution lessons.SF: Yes.And risen through the ranks-ish in the BBC.SF: Yes.Started as a floor manager.SF: Yes.And worked in the BBC. So when I met him he’d just made a little film, I think I was about... How old w[…]
[…]ggested why didn’t I go to the BBC, you know, you can work your way up from whatever. So I took a secretarial course and then didn’t get a job at the BBC.Sheila Whitaker Page 7[10:11]SF: Did not get a job with them? Sods.Well, I walked in and the Personnel Officer who was, I mean you could tell[…]
[…]be told what I can do and can't do by these jumped up nobodies. They were to me, and I was quite determined to get into the film industry through the BBC.         SIDE 2, TAPE 1 John Schlesinger: Well it was in those days, I also had run ins with Gra[…]
[…]ew. So we were thrown out and I went back to sea in the Merchant Navy until 1925, after which time I was rather tired of the sea, so I applied to the BBC. They took me on as an engineer, and I was with them for three years. Then I got involved in a squabble, nothing to do with me at all, but I put m[…]
