BILLY WILLIAMS Lighting cameraman Interviewer John Taylor, with Alan Lawson, recorded on 20 November 1991 Copyright BECTU History Project John […]
In February 2017 the National Film Theatre (NFT) has been screening Robert Hamer’s 1947 classic It Always Rains On […]
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[…]n two-inch and they shuttle much easier. They are much easier to edit on those because the faster you see the picture and again we are doing the same variety of programmes really - sport and we started doing an Arts programme called NB at the time so I did the first on-line of that so there was a lo[…]
[…]ng it ended up being the way everybody did it, because it was, in the end, it was common sense. But yes, we were in such a creative environment, such variety programmes with the status of network programmes, not just regional programmes, but we weren't really appreciated by London. My other half if […]
[…]ill – Williams? GG: Yeah, him! DB: I’m sure the production [schedule] was every ten days and hectic. GG: It was, yes. DB: A whole variety of directors. GG: You know, you’ve experienced the same thing. So we’d do ten and then we’d have time off and then we’d do another ten, a[…]
[…]t want me to go onto the stage on any account because of Uncle Charlie, they felt that was theatre. Of course, it wasn’t really theatre, it was variety and musical really. So, they were dead against it and they were hardworking lower middle-class people really and they sacrificed a lot t[…]
[…]part of a woman’s roller skating troop - difficult to say - a wo- a woman’s roller staking troop, which is how she met my father, she was on the same variety bill and then - er - so when my father was on stage - er - working eventually she was in the box office - er - looking after the takings if an[…]
[…]e thingsRichard Marden 38:22 can be and I think this is to a certain extent, what does happen now because I think I've read an article in variety the other day, a friend of mine sent me from certain Hollywood editors saying that now they've got into the digital process. Yeah, they're cut[…]