[…] events. One of things I did which proved to be quite beneficial actually was, I was also shooting slides and I decided wouldn’t it be interesting to try and develop a colour film at home. And you could get a kit of chemicals for developing Ferraniacolor slide film. So I did that. I was in the bathr[…]
[…]p;R: No. I don't think, no, none of us actually concentrated on one particular strand of television. We all did everything that was coming along. I'm trying to think of the worst programme I ever did. It would probably be an outside broadcast. I can't remember the year but it was the Pope's visit to[…]
[…] the time and you either left school and you went in to shipbuilding at John Brown's, of course, or Yarrow's or Singer Sewing Machine, all heavy industry places and it got to the million-dollar question - "Well, Ronald, what do you want to do when you leave school?" I'm fourteen at the time. "I want[…]
[…]ve an outside aerial. It was an inside aerial and it looked Sputnik with a couple of wires from it and I always remember my Dad moving about the room trying to get a picture and we'd say, "Hold it! Hold it! Hold it!" and he was in an uncomfortable position but eventually it did get a roof aerial!&nb[…]
[…] a Thursday/Friday and the boat set sail, the Royal Iris, on a Saturday morning and it was reading technology, which apparently had been developed to try and cover Francis Chichester going round the world on his yacht and it was a line of sight from the top of the Luther building in Liverpool to the[…]
[…]ed [Laughter] The Croydon School of Building it was called, which is colloquially known as the ‘brickbashers’, mm, where I learnt, mm, I learnt carpentry and bricklaying, a bit of elementary plumbing, welding, draughtmanship et cetera, mm, bits and pieces of that sort of thing. I mean[…]
[…]but it was about five or six pounds a week, I thought I need to move on and actually discover a bit more about this.So by then I think the hotel industry had taken a very back seat. DB: How did you break this to the family? PB-C: I don’t quite remember. [Darrol laughs] I think my mother wa[…]
[…]es? I’ve always been immensely interested in motion pictures generically and generally and I suppose specifically in the British film industry. I was aware of it from very early age, sort of around the age of eleven I was determined to, to work in it as a profession and, mm, my Mum always[…]
[…]ad Robert Bolt just for me and we were reading Moore'sUtopia and he was writing ‘Man for all Seasons’ and he used to bring it down in the morningsand try scenes out on me. So I think that was probably quite a big influence, you knowwithout knowing exactly how - I think so.202’26”SRDid your mother ha[…]
[…]ey come out in the afternoon you were doing that night show itemsBG What about dubbing.CY Yeah. the magazine items were we cut through the morning we try and get them up. There's only four minutes still need quite a lot of mixing and music and effects about the subject.BG How did they do the comment[…]
