Gerry Fisher

[…]r your first pictures. I said yes. He said, Well, I'm Michael Did you know I've? I've got a kind of carte blanche. I can do any pictures. I like them universal. I've done this. I've done that. Normally, I can get I can use. He he mentioned that. Oh, hello. Because Otto was still alive than this. I d[…]

Christine Whittaker transcript

[…] lot before you came to the relevant piece. So, obviously, news reels. And the same with Movie Tone Movietone and […]

Christine Whittaker transcript

[…] lot before you came to the relevant piece. So, obviously, news reels. And the same with Movie Tone Movietone and […]

John Turner

[…] and three of us were appointed: Cave Chinn, Oswald of Universal, and myself, and we were sent up to Scapa. […]

Elizabeth (Liz) Bale

[…]p;14:42  from that. So what was a was it a combination of music and talks, or it Elizabeth Bale  14:48  was mostly news articles, I think, because then they'd cut into the network, into radio, four or home services? It was then, but Nick Gilbey  14:5[…]

Jenny Barraclough

[…]t up in Devon mainly with parents who hadn'tbeen to university. So I think Oxford did it and there was a girl I knew who knew the editorof the I.T.N. news. And she said to him ‘Well I think this Jenny Izard would be to be OK as awoman reporter’. And so he said ‘well what's she like then? ‘Well she w[…]

John Turner

[…]over or something like that. Anyway, early 1940 they decided to appoint cameramen into the navy and three of us were appointed: Cave Chinn, Oswald of Universal, and myself, and we were sent up to Scapa. The navy at that time had no idea about publicity; we weren't allowed to wear cap badges or brass[…]

Julia Cave

[…], at this point, at the same point as that, the BBC decided to step up their Arabic service broadcasts because it was really important to get as much news across to the Arab world as possible, so they tripled the hours at the time when most of the staff had left.  So, it ended up with Lionel Ba[…]
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