[…] the days of TWW, Television Wales in the West, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor and the glamorous team that won the Harlech licence to broadcast ITV. And so for two years I produced what was called the Peter Williams Column in the programme paper for TWW, and I was absolutely wrong – actually wo[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]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[…]
[…]they would book the dolly from us and say we’d like one of you grips Fred Fry if he’s available. Er ... the, and we used to service the Beeb and the ITV companies with complete, with equipment and crews, the reason that all fell away and it’s been a great disappointment to me, was that the Beeb part[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]as was getting was kept going. And the following day, we got two headlines, the the the headline in the Daily Express and then the Daily Mirror. So a TV film causes spoof causes chaos. bit like Wells's war of the world when he was in fact, he, as we saw sort of reverse that the Martiams didn't[…]
[…] if the programme is greatly appreciated by about four people and you can understand that in the present climate.Yeah, that especially started after ITV.That’s when it started.Nancy Tbomas DRAFT Page 17It mattered then.Yes, nobody minded at all.Carry on.They, I mean Cecil McGivern was extremely[…]
