BECTU History Project - Interview No. 421[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: TBCInterview Date: 1997-10-09Interviewer: Alan LawsonInterviewee: John TurnerJOHN TURNER, news cameramanTape 1, Side 1Alan Lawson: First, John, when and where were you born?John Turner: I was born in Hampstead actually, ye[…]
[…]e or two jars [drinks] Galton and Simpson and Hancock and I were in the office and we wrote a sort of ‘Gettysburg Address’ to BBC executive programme management. saying “we, Tony Hancock, Galton and Simpson and I are of the opinion that it is possible to please most of the people most of the time wi[…]
[…]l, I their financial director. I said, Well, that's as good a recommendation as any. And it turned out that this gentleman had come in with a team, a management team, at that time to revitalize Kays. And anybody who's in the lab business will remember this, and Kays were in the depth of despair, and[…]
[…] bright lad I was, used to send me on various management courses. Showmanship Gone have the days of showmanship. There’s […]
[…] bright lad I was, used to send me on various management courses. Showmanship Gone have the days of showmanship. There’s […]
[…]as supervisory roles, that kind of thing, because your levels of expertise would be above the general guys coming in. So it was a training school for management at that time. I worked a lot at that time, working in the dark, doing shift work and various other things that were important to me. I lear[…]
[…]y who supported you. GM: Ernie was the officer who supported me. Christina was supporting me … but she was very loyal to the to the team, to the management and things like that. So anyway, but the big crunch came, so there was no agreement. GM: 30.16After about several months of talk[…]
[…]there? Well in 1978 when Ijoined, I seem to remember.CJ: I remember Leslie Hardcastle, [BEHP Interview No 373] whenever he had a problem with the BFI management, or anything was going seriously wrong and he couldn’t stand it any longer he’d go off into a corner and he’d go “Keith Lucas, Keith Lucas,[…]
[…]sh to it. And there was a very marked difference, even though they were operating - I mean the studio layout at Elstree was so much superior, but the management and the actual facilities at the Bush were so much better.Roy Fowler: How apparent was Michael Balcon?E.M. Smedley-Aston: Not to […]
[…]n independent producer at Pinewood wasn’t he?
No, he... Yes, he was I suppose, yes. He was head of production wasn’t he?
Um... Well, production management I would say.
Yes. Yes, yes.
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