[…]re. Mm, I don’t know how many but of course, they were short films in those days little, little tiny ones, you know. But he had an actor called John Bunny and Flora Finch also he made comedieswith them. But this is really going back to 1910/11/12 sort of thing. Anyway mm...Let’s see. Then he went, w[…]
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[…]rector of labour relations and then hanging inveigled across came along as assistant director. He was quite good sort of. Derry was quite Yeah. He was a good di[…]
[…]frames long. And it was very, very interesting to, for a young person, to have the experience of examining every shot of a film by such a very famous director. Gloria Sachs 12:14 How old were you at this time? Margaret Thomson 12:16 I was 25. Gloria Sachs […]
[…]ght side of the industry. I sort of halved my salary, becoming an assistant, you know, but it was well worthwhile.What kind of an assistant?Assistant director. And that day and age, now out of interest, in that day and age of coursewe were fighting for an apprenticeship scheme in the industry becaus[…]
[…] director, Val Parnell that is, I became the deputy managing director. And I suggested that Prince Littler, who owned the Moss […]
[…]eritage Group and I would like to start, Judy, right back at the beginning. Where and when were you born? R: I was born in Girvan in Ayrshire in 1956. I: And is that where you grew up? R: No, no. My Mum came from Girvan and I grew up between Paisley and Aberdeen and then I came down t[…]
[…]ear I was ah and I don't think he would be amazed when he gave me the job. I mean this this would never happen these days. So that's how I joined the BBC. And that changed my life you know. And. I say BBC did I do it I was 17. Working on this transmitter as our inventory was near the end maybe becau[…]
[…]f different companies, or, or for just a few major ones, or, or...?Within film?Y es.Within film, I, well I worked for, Granada to start off with, and BBC. Granada was a very forward-thinking company at that time. So, it had a lot of series, likeDisappearing World and, it did do quite a few seri[…]
