[…]sonally treasure most is being a Freeman of the City in which I live, Freeman of the City of Canterbury, which followed the MBE I got for services to television and the arts. And the City recognised that as well. And I think there’s possibly no greater honour than being recognised by the people with[…]
[…]My Cinema LifeCHAPTER ONE - MY FORMATIVE YEARSFrom my earliest childhood the magic of the Cinema had been firmly entrenched in my life. In those days television had not yet begun its inexorable march into the living rooms of the nation and the weekly visit, or in my fortunate case more often than th[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]ys, I was organising a March, I will come up in a second from the United Front. Now,John Legard 6:58 I remember that film as it was on on television not so long ago, about three four years ago.Michael Clarke 7:03 That's why many of us have a copy of it and Michael are looking[…]
[…] you know newsreels were held in very high esteem. There were there was no television around. And my God to be seen on a newsreel or to think that a&n[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] how my interest started. I've got two sisters, Sarah and Vanessa, who, who one of them still is an actress. And Vanessa is now become a writer and a television presenter, and a brother who's a painter. I tried to persuade them all to get into sort of home movies. And that's really where it all star[…]
[…]ance.Norman Swallow: If I remember, I was more or less the same generation, I was much influenced by Sequence, I was working in radio myself, not yet television, and I moved to television in 1950 having been reading Sequence for two or three years by that time. So I am just one of many people who we[…]
[…] by Sequence, I was working in radio myself, not yet television, and I moved to television in 1950 having been […]
[…]uld see on an endless films of double bills running for three days each. That amounts to something like 12 features a week. You could see better than television.SPEAKER: M2So that was very important now. All that stopped. More or less when I went to boarding school although I went to boarding school[…]
