[…]didn’t think we did more than that. So that was a very interesting series. We did two programmes up in Liverpool about a community school and about a newspaper called The Tuebrook Bugle, which was a community newspaper started by a marvellous character called Chrissie Maher, who has now become […]
[…] BBC, how wonderful their support services are: their library, their news information, their copyright, their… everything that you have to […]
[…]be Communications so you're doing all the lines for radio and TV. You do all these lines, setting and monitoring and jacking things up and then doing News at night so you would set the cameras up and work studios and stuff like that. But it was no fun being a Technician and I moved to Glasgow. I got[…]
[…]very good cellar. So I was living pretty well on the whole, except we were cramped a bit tightly in there. I shared a cabin with Ronnie Noble, um, of Universal, who was also going out there, and Terry Ashwood of Pathe, of whom the less said the better, because I shall libel the fella, if I say any m[…]
[…] er, British Movietone News, there was Pathe Gazette, there was Universal News, there was Gaumont News, th ere was Paramount News […]
[…]eanna Durbin. The interesting story about the Deanna Durbin thing which I was told at that time was Koster and Pasternak were taken to Hollywood on a Universal contract because of the huge successes of films they had made on the continent. And nothing worked. And they were working their contract out[…]
[…]viously, doing TV programmes was much more interesting, even as a student, than going to lectures and that sort of thing! On `Unit Sixty Five, we did news programmes and we had Danny Kyle on and Billy Connolly before he grew to be really famous. The University's audio visual unit was very supportive[…]
[…]ete nightmare. Not one laugh not one.SPEAKER: M5And John at the end was reviled and castigated and given the most terrible talking to by the heads of Universal who had taken it over they'd taken over this movie they hadn't seen it. We unveiled it to them in all the glory of six track.SPEAKER: M1Heav[…]
[…]u want me to name them?Ralph Bond: Well it would be useful.Alf Tunwell: Well there was er, British Movietone News, there was Pathe Gazette, there was Universal News, there was Gaumont News, there was Paramount News and Topical Budget were either just in or just out, I'm not quite sure. They were jus[…]
