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…ather changed the family name to Maxin..Ernest Maxin  British producer and director who specialised in television  light entertainment and comedy, for both The BBC and ITV. Maxin worked alon…

No relation between ranks and production jobs. Director an able seaman, and his assistant a Royal Marine officer. Fitting Terry Bishop into a gunnery course.

…onceived in a Bristol cellar during an air raid, he was based on film actor and director Erich von Stroheim, whom Ernest had met briefly in Paris in the 1930s. With his secretary Miss Frayle - a part …

…ome town of Ashford, Kent.  He quickly progressed to becoming a writer and director. After four years working for the resident film unit of the Kuwait Oil Company, he went freelance, mo…

…lks about his period as controller, BBC1 and working with Huw Wheldon (Managing Director TV); Interview continues with him talking about the placing of the first Monty Python programmes. He …

… He talks about Bert Spurgeon an old Ealing electrician who knew all about lighting having been in the game since the early 1930's working with all the leading cameramen  He talks about the …

…e for TV Advertising who had a basement studio in Film House, where he became a lighting cameraman earning £50 per week. He talks about making commercials with Ken Russell and John Schlesinger.

…ods. He talks about a production with Guy Brinton in Indonesia with similar low lighting problems using slow Eastman colour stock. Interesting discussion about low light filming. A second film fo…

…es (cinema commercials) and then he moved to Walton Studios as Second Assistant Director on Sailor of Fortune, a TV series. He then joined Vernon Sewell as First Assistant and tells some amusing stori…

…irst woman to operate a television camera on live television, working alongside directors and producers like George More O'Ferrall and Rudolph Cartier.In the early 1950s Harris&nbs…