[…]markable. You know he and John Houston were there because of something rather extraordinary which I learned in John Houston's autobiography Anatole Litvak who ran the American forces tell me it had covered the landing in North Africa by the American troops with unfortunately one director cameraman w[…]
[…]ht to do to make it work and that was real hard work.DR: The other thing that makes amazes me that you were able to go straight into the gallery of a tv studio and direct a live television production, you must have had some training, you must can’t go straight inWT: I didn’t have any at all and I be[…]
[…] like, radio was still the big work place, where you worked, many more shows on radio than on television. I went, when I went to Shepherd's Bush, the tv part of it was just a small building, where the scene changing area, round the back there. And Duncan Wood was one of the first producers I met the[…]
[…]p;1950, about May 50, I remember that very well.Stephen Peet: Did you get supplied with a tv as a BBC staff member so youcould see it at home.Norman Swallow: I don't […]
[…]Waterhouse and very present to work on Jerry enstes has operated for a long time, and after that, after that, got the chance to do a film for Granada TV called staying on, which was a novel by Paul Scott, one of the series, the first, probably of the jewel in the crown books he did. It had Silvio na[…]
[…]ie Fuller comedies.RF: A couple of questions, was that a typical procedure, that someone such as Lane would ghost for him and then he'd take the creditVG: I really wouldn’t know, I wouldn't think so, Nip really was acting on the thing he was doing me a favour and this was a way in if I wanted to hel[…]
[…]ily have a television interest? R: No. But television was in its infancy! This would be about, I think we first got a television about 1958/59. STV had been on the go for a year or two years at that time. And I remember we got the television and, gosh, we didn't have an outside aerial. It was a[…]
[…]or the Scottish Broadcasting Heritage Group's Oral History project. The interviewer is Janet McBain, the date is 14th July 2018 and the place is the STV's studio in Glasgow. The copyright of this recording is vested in the Scottish Broadcasting Heritage Group. We will start at the very beginning. Yo[…]
[…]of work - commercial television was starting - wandered along and saw Michael Yates in which we know who were head of departments at Rediffusion and ATV I got a job with Richard Real (?) ATV - 00:05:42Very funny story about that because he said to me “Yes we can offer you a job here”. &nb[…]
