Leonard Harris

[…] - wrote it too. But it says there, "The first television film." Now that's why they gave it to me, […]

Peter Montagnon

[…]f side 4 to follow Norman Swallow  0:04  the copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project. Peter Montagnon  television producer and director of television films, interviewer, Norman Swallow, recorded on the 31st of October 1995. Side onePeter Montagnon  […]

Richard Levin

Norman Swallow  0:04  The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Richard Levin, head of television design for the BBC interview on normal swallow, recorded on the third of September 1991. side one okay. First of all, when and where were you born?Richard Levin &n[…]

Dudley Lovell

[…]sistant cameraman I focused a lot on the second camera. We had the first camera which was Steven de frag basil and by Gabriella who later went to the television. And on the same camera there was a man called George Stevens, me my I was assisting him and a man named Reggie Johnson. I also think Jim B[…]

John Shearman

[…]ightest of them in London, and he told me that every one of these Iraqis that we'd trained were still employed somewhere in the world, in the film or television business. I'm really proud of that. And he got a wonderful job. They made some moviesUnknown Speaker  20:56  too. Did you have a […]

Richard Marden

[…]ich was run as far as I remember or run by a man called Henry Hobhouse was, as far as I know, the first company in Britain to make films for American television. And what happened was that they started off the small way, making a series of famous musical songs was just somebody playing a piano and a[…]

Harry Fowler

[…]t was lovely.McG: Were you now being recognised in the street?HF: I got recognised in the street mainly after Hue and Cry. That was the biggest until television came along, and then, you know if you went down the sewers, they’d recognise you, on television, whatever you did. [Laughter]. But after, e[…]

ARMSTRONG, Moira BECTU copy

[…] by the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell (Principal Investigator, […]

Mike Bradsell

[…]o make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. And because we had to, we managed to find a way to do it. And although things were far more professional in a television context, there was still occasions where you needed to break the rules to cover something that wasn't there. When I first started, as an ed[…]
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