[…]t’s him. ‘Ere, come here.” And there was a man sitting on a high stool at the bar. “Hallo” and I thought “Blimey, what’s this?” He said “I’m with the BBC. You’re a newspaper boy.” And I said “Yes” and he said “Well, we would like you” – and these were the exact words he used to me -the biggest word […]
[…] I might not put down the exact thing that I'd had to pay for, I was only recovering money I'd spent on behalf of Movietone - a lot like later in the BBC. Reno Wideson was shattered to find that that was my belief. And I never really tried to con them over expenses, or anything. And it annoyed me pa[…]
[…]BC which is what I did. The course, what it had actually done was to give you a really good, broad training and then, so I ended up on station at the BBC. I always wanted to work in Operations and they put me in to Communications for some reason despite the fact that I had no particular training in […]
[…]on: Yeah, yeah...Cyril Page: Yeah.[Break in recording]Alan Lawson: Right. Er I...I asked you...Any particularly memorable coverages?Cyril Page: Well, Suez was one. Er...Alan Lawson: Yes...Cyril Page: We were allocated er when the Suez started. Er...There was er...We had to fly to Cyprus. I...I went […]
[…]folio, which I did and he got in touch with Roy Oxley2 who had been a fellow art director, now at this time, which by now was 1951 he was at the BBC. Now the head of design there at that time was Peter Bax3 and they, now what happened, oh I think it was the usual thing, they said apply, an[…]
[…]st crossed on all this. And we felt that it should be this kind of, there was some possibility that it was possible occasionally to get film shown on BBC. And he was aware of this, but he wouldn't push it at all. I said, Look, let's just show. It wasn't given on someone like this. And I want to show[…]
[…]process has become so complex? [20.00 mins]WR: I don't think the complexity makes much difference, it might, but it so much depends on the director. LH: One of the things I think somehow escapes, and it might even be an improvement, now that you have to have, particularly on big film[…]
[…]he war?JBWell I was very little but I do remember bombs, yes yes.SRDo you think that affected your future at all?JBNo. Not at all I think I was too young and of course since then I've learnt a lot about the warbut I don't think it affected me noSRAnd tell me about your familyJBI had a brother who is[…]
[…]ilms I think is the same. So, at this stage I Arthur was an I left freelance to fend for ourselves. I by this time that got married. I was married in 1956. And just before we leave film partnership I'm eternally grateful to Michael John's because his wife, Margaret, and my wife, Jean, were young gir[…]
[…]production manager was also a woman called Deborah Cheshire. And john didn't get on all that well with with the idea, I think, basically ever a woman director. And nevertheless, he, he did his job pretty well, of course, and we functioned very well. We went to all over Switzerland, we went over the […]
