[…]he Great War, where IWM was one of the co-producers and Noble Frankland was, I think, one of the historical advisors, and in the 1970s came along the Thames Television Great War series, which was kind of The Great War but more so because Jeremy Isaacs and his team working on the Great War wanted to […]
[…]us being just an actor. But in point of fact not at all, he behaved just like any other reasonable actor. I always remember on the floor at Walton on Thames where we were shooting Harry Watt was directing but he was directing on the other unit and I wanted him to direct another episode and he said h[…]
[…]ith ATV I should think. PB-C: Sure. DB: Yes, I’d agree with that. When I first went outside the BBC, where I’d been born and brought up, to Thames, the difference there was just extraordinary, I mean every inch of carpet was checked and measured and costed, you know. PB-C: Yeah, yeah.[…]
[…]ould take off on its own. They've just speed away if they touch one of these really fragile joints, so Uh, so and you're on your own, and it was live television. So I used to do things like" Billy Cotton Band Show", for example, you had three prompters and all the, you know, Alan Breeze and all that[…]
[…]in television, you'll have a heart attack and you'll die. And he had to get out. He died about a couple of years ago. I think he never came back into television.  Alan Lawson  17:11  He lived very close to me. Bill Ward  19:40  Did he ? lovely m[…]
[…] freelance. And the films I did with him, the first one we did at Walton, a film with Gene GerrardAlan Lawson: Which studioFreddie Francis: Walton on Thames, where dear old Geoff Faithful was the resident cameraman and dear old Arthur Grant was his camera operator. That was one film and I did two mo[…]
[…]alist Productions, in collaboration again of course with the Spottiswoodes. And it was called Royal River. And it was a scenic film shot on the River Thames. Because of the massive and immovable nature of this giant camera, the film was nearly all shot from a barge, with the cameras mounted on a bar[…]
