[…]er, go home together at night’. So I was there for a year, and during that period I wrote to every single filmstudio, and to Arthur Elton at The Ministry of Information seeing if I could train as a continuity girl. And of course, nobody trained continuity girls then as they don't now, so I mean it's[…]
[…]hings? Right. Well, I was born in April 1915 in Newcastle and it was during the First World War, as you gather, and we shortly moved out into the countryside of Northumberland to a place called Bengeham [ph] and then to Charlton, a place called High Carriages [ph], and we eventually landed up at Kil[…]
[…]ut that? Because you must have been a member by then. This is to Spain...Philip Leacock: Yes, I'd been a member for quite a while then I think. I was trying to think...Stephen Peet: How did it come about that you joined?Philip Leacock: Well after working with Hal, to fill in a gap there, I then real[…]
[…]ree copies and they'd send them out to the different cinemas and these wicked managers - I suppose their bookkeeping was so haphazard, the whole industry was haphazard, you cannot possibly imagine really - and they didn't send them back. I eventually had 'Bronco Billy', I eventually had a full, thou[…]
[…]as incoherent because Gus Macdonald had bought The Herald and then there was the merger/takeover of Grampian, which might have made sense in terms of trying to keep STV as a separate entity within the ITV Network but then there's this explosion of buying everything at a very high price! Did any of i[…]
[…]n Scotland and they were eventually bought out by Thomson. Roy Thomson, the same fella who started Scottish Television so there was some kind of symmetry there but, after a period in newspapers, through the fifties, into the sixties, latterly with The Scotsman and, again, Roy had bought The Scotsman[…]
[…]etting it tuned again. Anyway, I got the job! So I started at the BBC as a Technical Assistant. I: When was this? R: October 1974. '74? I'm trying to think! Yes. So, you go down to Evesham to do the training course which, if you fail that, you are out and if you pass that, you are in so I […]
[…]operating in the public interest and they should look at the whole concept of contemporary life from the point of view of the service which they were trying to offer and so Shell was offering oil for lubrication and as a fuel, and this meant aircraft and this meant cars. They should also look at how[…]
[…]n in Newcastle upon Tyne in July 1956. I'm British, talking about my and my family background and origins, there was no involvement in the media industry at all apart from a possibly apocryphal story that one of my father's ancestors had opened the first cinema in Liverpool. I've never been able to […]
[…]d whether they had anything to do with the business theater film. Yeah, Kent Houston  0:21  My parents were in the film industry previous to the Second World War, and in fact, during the Second World War, because of certain circumstances, they ended up in New Zealand in the […]
