[…]ears ago, and I’m talking…well three years ago…1990, the News Access Agreement was enforced again in this country, and by agreement between the BBC, ITV, and Sky, news access became possible to each others exclusive sporting events. And as a result of that, BBC News can now show the cricket in[…]
[…]that time: The Free Communications Group, which had started some years before; The 76 Group, which was an organisation of production staff from both ITV and the BBC, and that was amazingly the first occasion when I had ever met a counterpart of mine who worked in commercial television. I […]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] together a consortium and they made a bid for Ulster TV and got it. Bill McQuitty became the chairman and […]
[…]ght of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Our subject today is John Ammonds - A M M O N D S. Television producer director, ex-BBC TV, Thames TV, London Weekend Television, now retired. The interviewer record this is John P Hamilton, member of the BECTU History Project committee, […]
[…]one was furious because she’d made up her mind and said I want Daphne Shadwell and was absolutely furious, and I didn’t want to do the TV job. And the Appointments Officer sent for me with the Administrative... and they were so sweet and they said, ‘Daphne, you must go to television, […]
[…]it was an infant. He was still expanding. And Harry Coventry 49:33 OBS had gone through. They'd gone through the start of ITV. ITV had started maybe a couple of years earlier, and had taken a lot of the staff out of out of outside broadcasts from in BBC, into ITV, a lot of[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]nk who was put in charge of a Chinese prince t or whatever theyt re called and he trained him and taught him and eventually when he finished he said Itve now taught you everything I can think. You now go out into the world and make your own way but I give you this ring t and at the height of elation[…]
