Roger Davis

[…]ositely was unusual insofar he taken an interest in radio, went from its very earliest days, and he was the first person in our village to have a television set. Black and white, of course, in when I was, I suppose in my teens, he had the first television ever in the village. But he encouraged me in[…]

Len Runkel

[…]aul de Burr. Paul de Burr, who is now, who's recently got quite a large pat on the back for something or other in the industry. I heard it on the television the other night. Someone was it the Paul de burr that we had,Unknown Speaker  1:26:58  I would think so. He was, he was an optical pr[…]

David Robson

[…] knowing that we could fade out and fade over to vision when we had to. It was quite tricky to […]

David Robson

[…] David Robson[Tape 1, Side 1]The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. David Robson, one time cinema projectionist, television telecine operator, recording engineer, one of the pioneers of the BECTU History Project. Interviewer Alan Lawson. Recorded on 25/3/98, side 1.A[…]

John Ammonds

[…]; 0:01  The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Our subject today is John Ammonds - A M M O N D S. Television producer director, ex-BBC TV, Thames TV, London Weekend Television, now retired. The interviewer record this is John P Hamilton, member of the […]

Philip Donnellan

[…]r: 206Interviewer: Colin MoffatSide 1Colin Moffat: The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project.  Philip Donnellan: television documentary producer, director.  Recording starting on the 28 June1991.Colin Moffat: Right, Philip your name is quite clearly Irish but I […]

Bernie Andrews

[…]se-drawn milkmen and bakers’ vans and coal vans coming round delivering every day.  My Mum and Dad rowing. MDThose were the days before television… BAOh we didn’t have… I bought our first television after I had been working for about four or five years.  My parents couldn’t affor[…]

Bill Ward

[…]m.Bill Ward Side 1 Alan Lawson  0:00  The copyright of this recording is vested in the Bectu History Project, Bill Ward, television technician since 1936 director, producer, programme executive, interviewer, Norman Swallow with Alan Lawson recorded on the 21st of January, 19[…]

Geoff Labram

[…]was to 100 mil, push pull density tracks, capable In fact, under good conditions of extremely good quality, as some of the old films now shown on television reveal, they could of course be plagued by noise or which meant that sometimes spotting of the print was necessary when these tracks were broug[…]

Barbara (Bimbi) Harris

[…]anscript is vested in the BECTU History Project. Barbara Harris was interviewed by Roy Fowler with John Hamilton on 30 August 1989. 1. Early television cameras and vision mixersRF: Was the next thing into television?BH: Yes, into television. Television started in 1946 and I with a lot of the ot[…]
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