[…]e sort of thing that the caption, right. They were doing that all the time. You see, until they got real Tim Aymes 1:05:38 writers in. You see, which had been about 1930 I Stanley Watkins 1:05:41 suppose. Well, a little early in that, but they di[…]
[…]of Taggart, there was dozens of other examples I could quote and they were very good at doing the half-hour Drama as well, half-hour play, giving new writers a chance. Again, I worked on a lot of really interesting Dramas back then as well, which I've still got at home on VHS somewhere. I've kept th[…]
[…]ou know, to power the lamps but on the rest of it, you know, on the production side of it you would have a Director, there would be the Producer, the writer, you know, that was a whole other area away from me. I: And when digital started, how did it change? R: Sorry? I: When digital s[…]
[…] maybe they can help." I said, "Oh, don't worry about me! I'll find a job alright!" [04:04]So that was me out of a job basically speaking. And a writer called Jimmy McNairn, who you probably remember, John, in the News Department. He used to write certain material for Jack, along with his partn[…]
[…]nd I suppose Robert would have, we all worked on them and they were like one-off Dramas. Half-hour Dramas and all the learners got a chance. Like the writers were people that you see now, credits. Robert: Was it not Preview? R: Preview!! Oh, well done!! And, you know, when you got a Previe[…]
[…] films. And she was lovely mod. Yeah, so we'd start with a blank page. And I mean, Octopussy. For instance, George MacDonald, Fraser was hired as the writer, mainly because of the Indian connection. You know, he'd written this, this, this series of books on India. And, you know, sort of, we thought,[…]
[…]w Holmes. Jack worked in the Post Office film unit and came, did a lot of films for me. We had a lot of very good people there and used a lot of good writers and composers. And er - we - Ustinov - when Ustinov had his first film part with me, but that was during the war. And Miles. Miles, he started[…]
[…]een so I’ve always had that kind of connection with, mm, with the industry. I was, at sixteen, seventeen I was also an associate member of The Screen Writers Guild so I was meeting people then like Eric Ambler for example that was quite surprising that, mm... Were you particularly interes[…]
[…]d three in the morning; and I was there.And you just sat in this room: I kept the place-names, for years with all these [names]. I got the studio signwriter to [do them]DB: Well, even I heard of it: Daphne’s, way back.PM: It’s still there. DB: Is it!PM: Oh, its now three times the size, and two[…]
