[…]nd anybody who knew the back end of a horse from the front. And the guardian. Needless to say, I was the soccer. So they said, Will you be the racing correspondent so we can find somebody else? And I said, Well, I don't really want to give it alright, I will. So I started the racing off with a garde[…]
[…]nd on the stage, they built an interior of a canteen in wartime factory in an interior stage and what have you. And there's more or less like, like a variety show as such, really. But I can remember the films being made by Butcher Butchers films. Also we went on to the well known films of Scotland Y[…]
[…]I first left school in 1950, the first application for a job was to the BBC. Cos I was mad… I had already written up to the BBC for tickets for Variety Bandbox and things like that, to go out to the People’s Palace in London. I used to go out and do anything to get tickets for broadcasts[…]
Jonathan Balcon Side 1 endRoy Fowler  0:00  The day is the 1st August 2001. Um I should add the copyright of the following recording is vested with the BECTU History Project, if that's agreeable to you Jonathan, and the subject we're about to embark I suspect on a marathon discussion […]
[…] then wanted a new challenge, but nothing was turning up at the BFI, or anywhere else for that matter, so I took time out for a year, I mean it was a variety of circumstances, but I had a house in Italy at that time so I spent some time down there, not the whole time, and buggered about for a year, […]
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[…]vinist outfit the key pair for me but it was decided that we put the unit's we've got not so much big but if you've got so wanted to have such a wide variety of interests, and the pictures were getting more complicated, needed more organisation, wasn't just one guy with a camera and see what it look[…]
[…]story, that in point of fact, it was the increasing acceptance of and incorporation of factual film techniques, informative film techniques, in all a variety, the maturity, maturity, maturity. But what also happens, which gets forgotten, I think that some of the films made by others, directed by oth[…]
[…]Brooks was going to involve himself quite a lot in the film. And by mistake somebody advertised for freaks, you know, and, people like that, in, like Variety or wherever you advertise those kind of things. And the press got hold of this, and they were really unpleasant to Mel Brooks. They said, ‘Oh […]
