[…]ey Cole: Because films were much more - cinemas were bulked much more largely in the whole social situation weren't they?Jack Rockett: You hadn't got television.Sidney Cole: You hadn't got television, you hadn't got bingo.Jack Rockett: Yes bingo came after.Sidney Cole: It came after, yeah.Jack Rocke[…]
[…]when it was, 1954, when ITV started, were you connected with this?A No, Paddy Leitch joined as an extra organiser so he was assigned to that. But whentelevision first started we didn’t have an organiser exclusively for television but I remember going to Wembley Studios and the woman there, she was t[…]
[…] audience. Vernon Sewell: "Silly, 'ain't it!" Roy Fowler: They watch television now, but it hasn't changed. Vernon Sewell: Yes. I […]
[…] working Sunday, never get that. ACTT (Association of Cinematograph and Television Technicians); National Union of Journalists; unionisation of cameramen RF: […]
[…] of Paddington, but because of the light it sheds on television broadcasting in its early, formative years. Â Michael first […]
[…]had not really been attempted. And always with one eye, not with any eye on the cinemas, really. Shell had never been interested in the cinemas or in television. They had not been interested in tel... entertainment in that kind of way, or the entertainment media. But they had been very interested in[…]
[…]on Geoff Randall was clapper loader on most of the Warwick, and Eon productions eventually and at the time he was working at Danzigers on a television series. When one of Warwick pictures came up and, obviously, he wanted to do it and it was in the prime days in the film industry[…]
[…]And later did loads of productions with Dick Cawston around the world. Again, very interesting, because they virtually in house projects, television around the world and how it was treated from South America, Poland, Russia, everywhere, imaginable. And it's a wonderful insight into the w[…]
[…] end they said, "silly, 'ain't I?"" [Chuckles]Roy Fowler: That's the audience.Vernon Sewell: "Silly, 'ain't it!"Roy Fowler: They watch television now, but it hasn't changed.Vernon Sewell: Yes. I was then going to make 'No Room at the Inn' which was a very successful play running,[…]
[…]ow how it started but I used to refer to my work as film which it was, 35mm film. And I said I'm making films. And she said you're not, you're making television. I said absolute rubbish, it's shown on television but we're making films. We edit it, we photograph it in exactly the same way that any fi[…]
