Cyril Pennington-Richards (cameraman and director) 17/12/1911 - 2/1/2005by admin — last modified Aug 12, 2008 12:43 PMBECTU History Project - Interview No. 122[Copyright BECTU] Transcription Date: 2003-08-13Interview Date: 1990-01-09Interviewer: Alan Lawson and Colin Moffat Inter[…]
[…]er good idea. They were rather bound script about an old movie actor who'd been accused of murder who finally comes to this country and is put into a TV series and a whole series of grisly murders in Syria which everyone thinks he's guilty. So it was Vincent Price and Peter Cushing and I thought thi[…]
[…]ed in in every threes. So that we can have the registration opened and we've also had the Gates moved down so we're as wide as we can get ready for HDTV we don't even print anymore we don't print and Technicolor what we do go straight to D1. Or we might but some things which we think are not long te[…]
[…]w, it was nice to have the letter.Yes, yes.I’ve got the letters.The other consistent thing is you always worked for The BBC, you never worked for an ITV company.No.Were you ever tempted to, I mean so many people did during that time?No, I wasn’t tempted to.Never thought of it?Well, I considered it. […]
[…]then I stayed in fridges until 1977 and 77, I photographed my first documentary from 77 to 87, which was my last job. I did documentaries worked as a TV lighting director, and also photographs second units on fairly major pictures such as wild geese, and Ellis Island.John Taylor 3:27 And[…]
[…]re I weep, dare I mourn, starring James Mason, which was made in Germany,Speaker 2 26:44 apart from the films in those days, the straight TV, as it were, was live, wasn't it? Most Yes,Speaker 1 26:50 and I Yes, so that there you were, a sort of a show finished, no hiding plac[…]
[…] with and whom I was very fond of has disappearing unfortunately.Arthur Graham: Moving onto another field altogether. Have you ever worked on film or tV commercials.Alan Lawson: I've worked on a film commercials but they were advertising film but this was in 1929 and they were made by the Morgan Fil[…]
[…] 44:30] Page/Time!Query! Sheelagh Rees DRAFT. Tape 2 Side A 79 Tape 1 Side B !28 01:00 ‘canny’?!Spelling/Doubtful!Word!–!uncertain!context.!44!!!!!!!!!!!30:48!Donald!‘Woolford’?!Spelling/Doubtful!Word!–! TV!Director!or!Producer.!45 31:30 ‘Sunbridge’?!Spelling/Doubtful!Word!–!Location!in!Shepherds!Bush!area.!47!!!!!!!!!!!35:30!‘Woolford’?!Spelling/Doubtful!Word!–!TV!Director!or!Producer.! !Tape%2%Side!A!!57!!!!!!!!!!!13:36!‘Drideutcherwilplunk?!Spelling/Doubtful!Word!–!TV!Company!in!Munich![Suggested].!58!!!!!!!!!!!13:42!‘Neils!Neilson’?!Spelling/Doubtful!Word!–!Munich!TV!Employee!in!Paul!Temple!series.!
[…]ave Bristol initially and go to Leeds, or- TD: No. It was going to be fairly tricky getting into television as a researcher, particularly in an ITV company, where at that sort of level you are going to need a union ticket, an ACTT ticket, so my very first job was at the Imperial War Museum Film[…]
