[…]member when people like, would have been Kenneth Adam came on, because I can't remember now quite the...Well Cecil McGivern was head of programmes on TV.Well Cecil, was Cecil McGivern before Cecil, well before Kenneth Adam, or were they both the same?Yes, yes. Yes.Was he?Yes.Well it must have been.L[…]
[…] quite the... Well Cecil McGivern was head of programmes on TV. Well Cecil, was Cecil McGivern before Cecil, well before […]
[…]oadcast (television) because Broadcasting House was still holding the purse strings and television wasn’t very respectable, those damn sort of pseudo TV film boys up at Ally Pally, so they are part of the BBC but they didn’t really like us in those early days. I: Yes that was recent[…]
[…]ry V"?Dallas Bower 34:25 Yes I, Henry V came about in this way: after Munich I thought we were going to need "Henry V" and I'd done a TV script and I had in mind that Ralph, Ralph Richardson might do it. During the war while at the MoI I thought why don't I work on this 'c[…]
[…]ly on the bus seat.Speaker 2 59:46 Right. So obviously investing heavily at this time, presumably in response to what was happening with ITV.Speaker 1 59:55 Oh, absolutely. Yes, yes, yes. So there was real competition going on. In fact, one of the problems the BBC were having[…]
[…]y what we were going to do. So, then I asked “What is the studio like, that we’re going to do this film in?” So, they punched a button on their TV set, which came up with a black and white picture, saying this is the studio. Which was just the site of the new studio. So, fine, than[…]
[…]ing along in this rather erratic fashion and going into the port of Tangiers, I suppose it was - limping in there - and we filmed him by staying just outside the territorial limits. I think I was able to use up to a three or four inch lens. I filmed him going into port and actually going in between […]
[…] was the time when the BBC were transmitting 30 line TV on long-wave I think, and medium-wave. Alan Lawson: Yes. […]
[…]echnical paper, a technical book for people building amateur radios and stuff like that. And this was the time when the BBC were transmitting 30 line TV on long-wave I think, and medium-wave.Alan Lawson: Yes.David Robson: And I built the Nipkow disk and the picture element I think was a neon lamp...[…]
[…] very nice man. Although I had no experience whatsoever. Of filming or shooting outside. He needed some young blood because mostly cameramen were old. So he took&nbs[…]
