[…]. That takes me back. Am I boring you?Alan Lawson : NoPeter Birch : The period between my leaving the sea and going into the BBC was taken up with an advertising man for about three months, that doesn't rank really - that was quite funny, but if I had stuck to that I should have probably.. . the adv[…]
[…]ilms for Ford, and remember this is before commercials really, there were advertisement films, on condition that he could make some films that had no advertising. And we talked about this. Free Cinema had existed for one show, then there was another show because Lionel Robison arrived in London with[…]
[…]d." So I got over there a bit early and they wanted to see me, they said, "Would you like a job here with Random Films? We're going to do a series of advertising for Shell," I think it was, all concerned with motor racing, and they were only going to be very short, "We'd like you to photograph them […]
[…]videos only there won't be a single drop of aviation space or petrol or labor in the U.S. so next year. It wouldn't affect sales that emphasizing the advertising sales next year. That's why we're an more publications about. What we were after was the image of the famous old in is not so much on how.[…]
[…]sly find it excruciatingly boring or they don’t like the people. But I just find it fascinating you know there’s… that’s a different group of people, advertising people and totally different from feature film people. I think that television, you know, trainees are somewhat different. They train on t[…]
[…]ry confined competition. You had two monopolies, the company that hadthe monopoly of the licence fee against the company that had the monopoly of the advertising. So it was nowhere near a free market open ballgame.And I frankly don't think that it should be. I see nothing from getting people like Ru[…]
Tony Bridgewater Side 1 Alan Lawson 0:03 The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Tony Bridgewater, senior BBC Television engineer, pioneer television engineer. Interviewer, Norman Swallow, and Alan Lawson recorded on the 28th of June 19[…]
Transcribed by Graeme Hobbs.SIDE ONEThis recording, is vested in the ACTT [Association of Cinematograph and Television Technicians] history project. Jack Gold, film and television director, interviewers, Norman Swallow and Alan Lawson, recorded on the 27th February, 1990, side 1. NS Going […]
BEHP transcript DisclaimerThis transcript has been produced automatically using Otter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for[…]
