[…]ing this saga. .CHAPTER TWO - THE ODEON YEARS 1968 - 1971 Part 1In the summer of 1968 I had been successful in my application to join as a management trainee with the Rank Organisation and was scheduled to start at the Odeon in Edinburgh in October that year once the new General Manager h[…]
[…]st, dead time, okay we’re off the air, we’re off the air, the transmitters were closed down. We had enough staff in Yorkshire Television…enough management staff in Yorkshire Television to get us back on the air; there was no question…non union people. I mean, there was Ted Wright and oth[…]
[…] working in the areas that I've worked in, which is mostly with industrial working class people. Because it's very valuable to be able to, to talk to managements in a voice that they recognise as having the stamp of authority and to working people who resist that they are perfectly capable I've alwa[…]
[…]here. My, my older brother when he came out of the Air Force eventually became the secretary of the firm. But by that time, due to various changes in management structures, it was not nearly the sort of firming had been in our youth. What wasJohn P Hamilton 5:38 it from that job, then? Y[…]
[…]ght of the drama, of course, forgot the cookery and the French, and started doing productions there and it was a very good course because I did stage management as well as acting and I had to do stage management and well...JPH: You’ve had a bit of a time slip actually, because that wa[…]
[…] Checkland said to me, I'd like you to stay, I'd like to have another managing director obviously, but I would very much like you to stay on board of management and become director of enterprises whatever whatever, and be my adviser . I said no, your adviser will be your managing director, I don't w[…]
[…]itsch were almost autonomous at the studio. They did. They decide their own projects.Speaker 1 22:19 Yes, they had a great influence. The management always wanted form from all of them, makers, ideas, what he wanted to do next. And they submitted stories most time. They had that sort of […]
[…] so you had to be very careful. I suspect the management gave them passes and things like that to keep […]
[…]al authority fire people would kind of visit projection rooms and you didn't know when they were coming, so you had to be very careful. I suspect the management gave them passes and things like that to keep them sweet, you know. The standard word for fire - have you been in the business? You don't..[…]
[…]to what year, roughly? Michael Aldridge 7:01 I finished actual camera work in about 1972, and went into what is loosely described as management.Interviewer 7:11 Yes. Okay. So that decade plus that you worked with cameras, can you describe the difference in both the techn[…]
