[…] horse-drawn milkmen and bakers’ vans and coal vans coming round delivering every day. My Mum and Dad rowing. MDThose were the days before television… BAOh we didn’t have… I bought our first television after I had been working for about four or five years. My parents couldn’t a[…]
[…]so I had to leave. Got as many part-time jobs as I could and, eventually, saw in the Glasgow Herald an advert for Camera Assistant in the Educational Television Service. But it was coming up in eighteen months time. The same advert was also looking for Lab Assistants and I thought, 'Science. Three H[…]
[…]body said to me... when I was very upset by a programme that I'd had seen... she said, "well, Pat, you silly old fool! You haven't learnt to use your television skin!" But what does that mean? It's all got to wash off you quickly! So what you see, you must forget, otherwise you become upset! So that[…]
[…]a few years before this moment when I was at Bristol. And suddenly the penny dropped and I can still remember that Road to Damascus moment was ‘television historical documentaries.’ Of course! That’s it! That combines my interest in history, my interest in film and television, and so when we l[…]
[…]rk on some of the really top movies made in this country. That's how his reputation sort of grew round him, and in fact if you see his films today on television they aren't brilliantly lit compared with some of the others. He was very good, but working on the top-notch movies made here-he got the re[…]
[…]d transcript is vested in the BECTU History Project. Barbara Harris was interviewed by Roy Fowler with John Hamilton on 30 August 1989. 1. Early television cameras and vision mixersRF: Was the next thing into television?BH: Yes, into television. Television started in 1946 and I with a lot of th[…]
[…] recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Julia Cave, television director and producer. Interviewer Norman Swallow. Recorded on the […]
Sheelagh Reece DRAFT. Tape 1 Side AThis recording was transcribed by funds from the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell (Principal Investigator, University of Leeds) and Dr Vicky Ball (Co-Investigator, De Montfort University). (201[…]
[…]actually remove the reality from turning into some kind of Algerian drama, rather than someone who's absolutely immediately, you know, like a, like a television producer, which is what it was, you know. And although I mean, not to say that, you it's interesting that it seemed to me very realistic, I[…]
[…]you know, I was very happy to have been to Granada. [05:46]I: Oh yeah! I think it was new to a lot of people who were starting at STV, you know, television itself. You'd a lot of experience but what was the general feeling about the people who had never been in television before as you started […]
