Marjorie (Sullivan) Graham

[…]check that everything was all in place, the catering and so on. And then I went to one of the parties that was running for the opening. The Granville Theatre in Fulham. I went there. And they went on the air that night. From the next day, we're making programmes and frankly, we didn't really know wh[…]

Roger Davis

[…]hey lead to changing their costumes on the edge of the set, then yes, production it was a it was a remarkable what they managed to do. But a bit like theatre of course where of course you're it's a continuous production. This is Percy and this was a Christmas, Christmas pre Christmas Show. This pers[…]

Jill Langley

[…]  37:15  a big screen. I don't know. All I know, know is that of course, as the newly was huge as a music. Musical started not musical as a theatre style really musical pop stars. Yes. Absolutely. And she married Joan Collins. Didn't he want one? Yeah. And so yeah, that was some. Yes, it w[…]

Barrie Merritt

[…] they got hold of this is more than opponent danger is a show reel of American TV commercials and short stuff, which we went to a screening of in the theatre. And that was really quite influential because some of that was very slick animation work and Uh, yeah, TV commercial work. I can remember see[…]

Tim Emblem - England

[…]rast projection but, for TV broadcast, the preference was always for a low-contrast print which, conversely, if you were to project that in a preview theatre it looks flat and uninteresting but gives you the best option to get a good picture out of on transmission, on telecine. Modern machines are m[…]

Peter Lamont

[…]of Life and Death, I did have a ride on that staircase. Yeah, it was just before the war started and the staircase was coming down into the operating theatre where they all came down and they’d got the book you know and they run it and my dad worked there obviously and he said “Come on Nibbs” go dow[…]

Brian Pritchard

[…]ee Ken Nelson, he’s your grader and contact man” and that’s it, you deal with him. So he would grade your film and you’d come in and you’d sit in the theatre with him and go through your film. Whereas, at places like Rank and Technicolor, then it tended to be the contact man who dealt with the grade[…]
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