[…]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[…]
[…] to the BBC because we wanted to see this Scottish TV programme on Livingst one. And when it was on […]
[…]ight up untilthe end and then he drifted off to Group Three making low budget feature films and then he foundhis own length again of course with the STV series This Wonderful World where he did have asuccess I think.Taylor/Peet: That was considerably later was it?Denis Forman: Yes, but he lay fallow[…]
[…] presence and influence gradually receded as other things began, like TV Rental, Motorway Service Areas but during those early years […]
[…]Labour Party came from NATTKE. No question about that, to be fair, that was driven by the likes of Vincent Finer, Freddie Fabian, Freddie White, the ITV branches inside ITV and, there was a bit of caution even among some of our branches. But in the end, the more militant branches in the BBC did supp[…]
[…] for the Scottish Broadcasting Heritage Group's oral history project. The interviewer is Janet McBain, the date is 14 July 2018 and the place is the STV's studio in Glasgow and the copyright of the recording is vested in the Scottish Broadcasting Heritage Group. I am going to do the boring thing and[…]
[…]nk Philip, as I understand it, thought that the Royal Family should be seen more as individuals rather than ‘the Monarchy’. So, a consortium of ITV and BBC got together, so the idea of making the film was born and Dick Cawston was approached to be the director. And so we spent a year following […]
[…]ily have a television interest? R: No. But television was in its infancy! This would be about, I think we first got a television about 1958/59. STV had been on the go for a year or two years at that time. And I remember we got the television and, gosh, we didn't have an outside aerial. It was a[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
