[…] he used to do these scripts, you know and he used to take me with him to do the shorthand, Letts, make notes at the studios when he was making these trailers.Oh.And he used to, when he would then do the script and ask my opinion, [Laughter] and I must have been incredibly naive because I used to te[…]
[…]a very clever producer and director and with Mike Yarwood he was especially useful because as a director because he'd come up from presentation doing trailers and he knew his videotape extremely well. SPEAKER: M5 And therefore Yarwood doing all these mul[…]
[…]lways, no matter how good the second one may be. We had great difficulty in finding the young man, the young actor Pip. And what we did was we made a trailer, we'd cast Johnny Mills as the grownup Pip. And we made a trailer with Johnny appealing to the audience, to see if they could find for us, a y[…]
[…]ar technical challenges or interpretive requirements that weSpeaker 1 33:19 sort of mood in the interiors, particularly in the inside the trailer when she returns. And so, you know her was full of moss, and it was emotional, saying that her the past he thought was killed at that time, an[…]
[…]bsp; And the Beatles used to come round as well. The main… The main time that they all came round was when recording the… legendary trailers for Top Gear. Once when Paul came round, it was quite embarrassing because we used to have a mynah bird just inside the doorway. […]
[…]going to be a completely different kind of film, and it had picked up these people along the way. And a couple of them, one who had a company did the trailers, I can’t remember his name now. But we had all these hanger-on associate producers, who had really done very little if anything, but mostly w[…]
[…]ime and, whoever it was, Lloyd or the Programme Controller, thought of a programme called And So To Bed. And it was a piano player, and it was a trailer for next day’s programme. Somebody at the piano would play some tunes and say, ‘And at seven o’clock there’ll be so-and-so, so-and-so, an[…]
[…]n the sanctity of the schedule, when the events dictated, the schedule was thrown overboard and special programmes went out. There were lots of trailers; presentations did a super job in those days. I mean, obviously, with a value of hindsight I look back on it as good days. Monty […]