[…]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[…]
[…]sp; I came back, worked at Home Service as Current Affairs Producer on ‘Focus’ with Edgar Lustgarden. Then I was told time to go to Television Centre. It was a comedown intellectually from Bush House to Broadcasting House. BH was fantastic, empire created by Lawrence Gilliam, brill[…]
[…]media and where you came from there? If I can ask you to give us a quick run down on that. R: Well, like a good many people in the sixties, when television was really starting out, in the whole of the UK really, as much as in Scotland, I had been in newspapers. I started out in newspapers. I st[…]
[…]rained on the job.Mm.So it’s interesting [inaudible] to people who have...Mm, that’s right, yes.You worked outside cinema, I mean, obviously for television, but, did you do anything for theatre or...?I worked as a stills photographer, and worked in the theatre then.Oh, for, particular companies[…]
[…]t. But Henden Manor was the most lovely house and he very much wanted to buy it, but he also very much wanted to have, as Jill I think once said in a television programme about Ealing, he wanted a little bit of England. And the house was owned by Hudson who was then the Minister of Agriculture, and […]
[…]d look like. Nobody else knows. Directors definitely don’t know.PF: Do you ever see that sometimes when you watch your films on… when you see them on television? Do you ever, kind of, have a moment where it’s not been graded correctly for broadcast?CM: Yes.PF: But that’s interesting because, you kno[…]
[…]y. Yeah. So you you made uh three sections is that right for the mother goose which you then strung together.SPEAKER: M8Yes they were separate items. Television was just coming and I thought I would make them for schools and I uh I went around to different schools to see what they would like to see.[…]
[…] of that that I came to STV. I: Talk to us a little bit more about the by-media reporting because you said earlier on you didn't see yourself on television because you just didn't see yourself on television. So, when did you start doing on-screen reporting for the BBC? R: Well, the BBC was[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]Tell me a bit about them because I, I‘m, I don’t know anything about them. Peet? Well, Stephen was, mm, responsible for some brilliant BBC television programmes, and Norman of course, was equally again involved in putting history, mm, often contemporary history but nevertheless it was his[…]
