[…]or ‘57. And Free Cinema was independent cinema outside the assumed limitations of either commercial cinema, which made a great many commercial films, advertising films and so on which one would see in in routine cinema programmes as a filler or short in between the main films. Or or the documentarie[…]
[…] the bombs? John Halas: No it is not entirely true. We worked in Bush House because there was a minor war going on between J Walter Thompson the advertising company and the Ministry of Information as to who should have power. J Walter Thompson had commissioned us to make any number of films tog[…]
[…]arties on the beach at Cannes. They’re all expensive and I’m not sure that you get the value out of itQ: It’s sss somewhat l like what they say about advertising that fifty per cent of it is wasted but nnn but you never know which fifty per cent. And I suppose that’s true of a party guest list. Some[…]
[…] first television advertisement, which = used to show in an advertising programme: Gibbs SR toothpaste . That’s it: twelve minutes […]
[…] results. And when you finish there when you were 16, there were no eight levels in those days. It was 1952 when I left. Our school sent people to an advertising agency in West End. And every year they sent a couple of people there because in the final year at school, we learned shorthand typing, an[…]
[…]0, 7 o' clock at that time then it moved to 7.30 so yeah, we had very regular slots so we knew who the audience were. We worked very closely with the advertising people about who is it we're trying to hit here so sometimes they didn't want, they didn't need big numbers but they needed rich, young me[…]
[…]hich had been formed in [19]55 I think – is that right? Because I remember having the very first television advertisement, which I used to show in an advertising programme: Gibbs SR toothpaste. That’s it: twelve minutes past eight on such and such a date in 1955.65 minsSo we did espouse televis[…]
[…]he job, properly crude.Gradually, that changed Channel Four, it became I mean, I partly was the originally they got the portion of the ITV money from advertising. And then because they were doing so well on getting better viewing figures than they expected, they thought, okay, we can start selling o[…]
[…]now they advertise. He would use a lot of the sets that were so-called ape pictures. And at that time he would reuse the sets. And so that they could advertising the set costs between many different films to save money.SPEAKER: M1A lot of it produced a lot of studios did that at the time. Oh yes.SPE[…]
John Ammonds Side 1John P. Hamilton 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 […]
