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[…] not a woman, you couldn't have a woman as a director. Sidney Cole : I suppose things are a little easier […]

[…] this time the interviewer Stephen Peet worked for him until 1956. Louis Nell worked as Cameraman. Working as a colonial making […]

[…]k away from it so that the journalist could do the questions without corpsing. There was one quite famous journalist now, Sally McNair, who works for BBC. She was a Reporter on Scottish Television and she was prone to giggle and I remember filming her doing a piece to camera and I had to put my coat[…]

[…] so that was good and you taught yourself really. You learned from talented people, people like Alan MacMillan who was a brilliant Editor and a great Director. Ross Wilson, another really really good Director. From people like yourselves who had skills in particular areas and so on. You know, the So[…]

[…]didn’t join until he came out of the Army, he was Ernest Irving’s assistant, until Ernest Irving retired, and then Doc Mathieson took over as Musical Director. Ernest Irving was the top man, then there was Doc Mathieson who was his assistant later on, there was Jimmy Crawford who was the librarian a[…]

[…]see. Which is, I suppose, really what a great conductor is in an orchestra, you know... people play for a great conductor and people relax for a good director. And, er... I don't think anybody had it in the GPO Film Unit to that extent, because they were - charming, sweet people, don't get me wrong,[…]

[…]'re good at their job, and then proceed to underpay them.Alan Lawson  49:03  Yeah, well, this is, this is rather like before the war in the BBC. You were given the title engineer, but you weren't paid the money.Speaker 1  49:12  Yes, yeah, it's ridiculous, but that was one of my […]