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[…]ing films, then I got a certain amount of political smearing, John Armstrong took over that, I was then working on a Shell series called Look at Your World which was the world of Shell - I think they worked out the idea that they would have these films which they would show round the world which wou[…]
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[…] ... These caught on and they went all round the world. They were pretty crude but we had a good […]
[…]nes the one wrong one you get better at it. as you go on. anyway I did make decisions. And I think I turned the department round quietly. I've got it world renowned with the various exhibitions and promoted international exhibitions of design. Do you remember those? I'm quite interesting, in a way. […]
[…]ect one of his things - I didn’t really want to, but, partly out of friendship, whatever, I did a Whicker’s - one of his first ever AL Whicker’s World JG Whicker’s World things, called, about beauty contests, called What’s A Pretty Girl Like You etc, whatever, something like that. NS […]
[…]mes. What exactly were quota films?DB: There was a law brought in that British cinemas, American films, ofcourse, were flooding the market. The First World War had seen to that.British production and European production had dropped considerably andthey had during the First World War picked up market[…]
[…]had just Got a house in Dagenham, and so we moved into one house and then another. And I grew up in Dagenham with until the start of the first second world war. Nick Gilbey 1:13 Did your parents have any connection with the television film industry, Harry Coventry&nbs[…]
[…]ng stuff. I mean, I enjoyed the BBC fine but I wanted to move on in my career. So, I came to STV in telecine which was - STV was a bit of a different world to the BBC I think you could safely say! A lot of people working in STV in telecine were former projectionists. I am not taking them down but th[…]
