[…]ateur film. For its time. It was all like briefing counters. It was a lady having an illicit relationship with a glamorous young cyclist on the River Thames. Nice. And I was her son. So I got carried around a lot by this very glamorous lady from the amateur dramatics society, and I thought that was […]
[…]ing with rushes and dealing with cameramen etc; he went on the road for 18 months working with television – all of the television companies above the Thames, LWT up to Aberdeen; through this he got to know people at Rank and Technicolor; a management shakeup happened at Technicolor; a position as Te[…]
[…]sp; The Shows at the Studio00:27:17 Thames shutting down00:26:55 Training Freelancers00:28 […]
[…]me ooh, what was Terry Gilliam like? Well I don’t really know because I was working with Bob and a cameraman called John Grant in a barn on Walton-on-Thames. That was John’s set-up, amazing set-up, just next to his house. And I’d fit that around always getting back just after the kids got back from […]
[…]various things with Eddy and eventually, in the early ‘70s we started to work on history programmes. I think at that time it was obviously known that Thames Television was making World at War and we knew it was going to be a fantastic series.... I am not a historian, as I said, I was a linguist, but[…]
[…] us. [coughing] Things like that were...Did you have similar sort of experiences on Police? Another big series.Yes. Mm. That was a whole year we did, Thames Valley Police. [pause] Yes. I mean it is a different experience, going every day, and actually, following people around and, [coughing] getting[…]
[…]as been spent. Darrol Blake 15:42 I worked with a director, well, I mean, in the next office, as it were, to a director at Thames, who, after she'd shot her piece, would take it into the mending shop, which, which was her name for editing. Yeah, Kent Houston &nbs[…]
[…] it's only sadder really than the end of a musical because there's no salvage as it were you the century finishes up on the flaps in somewhere in the Thames, and then it gets burnt. And I think there was still a few long cloths and things outside of the Cambridge Theatre stage door a couple of month[…]
