Kent Houston

[…]; yes, yes, yes. That's That's leaping ahead a bit. There isn't it really, as I said, the first thing on the list is, is the rhubarb and custard television series where you're actually credited, or on this list, at least as a camera operator. I mean, it was that which company made that. Ke[…]

Michael (Mickey) Hickey

[…]ig one where they say, "Oh," you know, "bloop it," and so on.Mickey Hickey: You didn't have a lot of time either it was a case of - you weren't quite television but you nearly were television, for quantity, not quality. But - and also, I enjoyed working with them, the three of them. I mean the direc[…]

A F (Peter) Birch

[…].Alan Lawson : Reith was there then, at the BBC?Peter Birch : That's right, there was discipline in those days. After that I went to John Logie Baird Television - so I was with him for nearly two years, and I can say that I was an embryo television man. In fact I ran the demonstration studio for abo[…]

Tony Bridgewater

[…]nbsp; Alan Lawson  0:03  The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Tony Bridgewater, senior BBC Television engineer, pioneer television engineer. Interviewer, Norman Swallow, and Alan Lawson recorded on the 28th of June 1990. Side one Norman[…]

Fred Tomlin

[…] continued to work as a boom operator on films and television (often alongside Leslie Hammond) until the mid 1970s. His […]

Jack Rockett

[…] whole social situation weren't they? Jack Rockett: You hadn't got television. Sidney Cole: You hadn't got television, you hadn't got […]

Alan Masson

[…]change was made, the new film stocks were introduced with technical papers at technical conferences run by the BKSTS (British Kinematograph Sound and Television Society) and also in the US the SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers). I was involved with some of those presentations[…]

Emmanuel (Manny) Yospa

[…]rk, documentaries. There was also a lot of work at Merton Park with the Film Producer's Guild. At that time they'd just started doing some series for television and they did a series called Stryker of the Yard - [chuckles] I'm trying to think of the star in it - Bruce Sheltzilt[?]? [NB Clifford Evan[…]

Fred Tomlin

[…]know the name, hmm.Fred Tomlin: Well Pip Pearson. And we carried on there for a while and then eventually they er - oh things happened. Talkies - the television, ITV was coming into it, so Southall Studio was taken over by Pearl and Dean, the - you know you used to see the adverts on. And they wante[…]
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