[…] you know, when you think of the struggling round London used to be, trying to find stuff. No, in many ways it was quite good.Because I think British technicians are held in very high esteem in America aren’t they?I think they’re the best, having worked with quite a lot of Americans. I’m certai[…]
[…]en lifts by all sorts of people actors, producers – everybody knew the Polish Film Unit, I suppose as it was a strange flower (?) among the technicians, perhaps it was Derek's charm and personality which was why we were well known, but everybody knew the polish film unit, there was hardly […]
[…]nbsp;I remember very well and Mannheim who married Marius Goring. That's right Lucie Mannheim. And the end product, especially of the technicians, the great cameramen, especially who came over was that they were marvellous mentors for that very young layer of British talent that came[…]
[…]r and what we did was, weorganized it so that we would do - we - and I am talking about ITN now - we at ITN would do threemonths, we would supply the technicians and the BBC could use their reporters with ourtechnicians and our own reporters. And then conversely when the BBC's turn was to do threemo[…]
[…] who went were all people who were willing to take a risk and we all got on very well! [Laughs.] In fact I think I...I don't think that...he paid his technicians, [Hally/Harry]...what he didn't pay was the hotels and places like that! [???] [Laughing.]John Legard: He had a very considerable output e[…]
[…]Ward Side 1 Alan Lawson 0:00 The copyright of this recording is vested in the Bectu History Project, Bill Ward, television technician since 1936 director, producer, programme executive, interviewer, Norman Swallow with Alan Lawson recorded on the 21st of January, 1997 side[…]
[…]casionally and you’d get miles and miles in a terrible… clanking tin tape and I suppose ought not to say it, but there was a terrible man who was the technician, I won’t say his name, but he would have been had up for sexual harassment, as they say now. I didn’t care, but oh, he was a nuisance[…]
[…] the Warner and Stan Perry[?] who was chief projectionist at the Empire. Now they ran what was known as The Guild of Kinematograph Projectionists and Technicians. We were not a union, our idea was to improve our knowledge by going round and having lectures and all sorts of things, in other words we […]
[…]they wouldn't do this in future they would break up the feature in the documentary the documentary cruise and put the documentary people with feature technicians and try and get a different patent. So I was assigned to John Eldridge for the next film is called Nextel Dale Hall which I have on tape. […]
[…]d it was just like a family. I mean it was just terrific and the quality of the films was wonderful. We used the best designers, the best technicians, it was just wonderful. I’m… you know if anybody ever sneers at Hammer, and when I think of the rubbish that was made afterwards tha[…]
