[…]a touch for that sort of thing I thought. And as a matter of fact, when the film was over everybody gave John Howard Davies - who is now of course an executive and not quite the same size - aday out. And I have seen him once, I've seen him once since. I was doing a film at Twickenham and he was play[…]
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[…]ng contented smiles to their faces! At one stage in the afternoon of the day of the Premiere we had a foyer full of press, radio, a replica plane and TV cameras recording interviews when in walked Ted’s Regional Manager David Williams. He cornered me and asked what was going on. As I outlined everyt[…]
[…]sterfield in Derbyshire. Did a rep. season there, moved to Sheffield which was a slightly bigger theatre and then I got a job at the BBC in Glasgow! STV, of course, had a very successful nightly magazine programme called Here and Now, presented by Bill Tennent, terribly popular. The BBC decided that[…]
[…]rted up. So independents who had been making sponsored films, of course tried to clamber on the bandwagon, together with people who left the BBC and ITV form independent companies. So there was everybody scrambling for work from Channel Four still, there still are. There were too many companies look[…]
[…]here were about eight years that time, took 12 per year. And we also did a one year course for postgraduate. So crash course introduction to film and TV, we had a very good tutor in Tim O'Brien, who was a stage designer for the rst, in the Royal Opera, so forth. But he was a good general, sort of pa[…]
[…]sing film director Mike Kevin Billington called Madison Avenue. And he was granted permission to just do one magazine of shooting on some advertising executives who reckoned they were far too busy to give a longer interview. So he said, Okay, when it runs out, I'll stop. But you can apparently you c[…]
[…]sing film director Mike Kevin Billington called Madison Avenue. And he was granted permission to just do one magazine of shooting on some advertising executives who reckoned they were far too busy to give a longer interview. So he said, Okay, when it runs out, I'll stop. But you can apparently you c[…]
[…]right. JustUnknown Speaker 14:47 repeat things when you're on the final.Edward Williams 14:51 No, that's quite true. And to NDTV it's quite a difficult judgement or certainly was in those days very much more difficult judgement that is to make now I mean, since you didn't rea[…]
[…]ve a look at them. Donald Wilson 41:35So that was the end of that. Linda Wood 41:40Can I just sort of as you were sort of doing TV you were telling us about some wood and making Goodbye Mr. Chips Donald Wilson 41:56well after the war she was a rude word. When I joine[…]
