Charles Hamill
Family name: Hamill
Work area/Craft/Role: Exhibition, Projectionist
Industry: Film
Websites: University of Glasgow, National Library of Scotland
Interview date(s): 13 May 1995
Interviewer(s): Manny Yospa
Production Media: audio
Duration (mins): 39
The following notes are taken from the Moving Image Archive Manuscript Catalogue in the National Library of Scotland. One assumes that as it was for the Scottish Television Production "Scotland's War" that the interview is on film rather than an audio recording.
MI.8 Oral History Page 28 of 38
MI. 8/116 c1995
Transcript only. interview with Charlie Hamill for the Scottish Television Production "Scotland's War" on Hamill's career with particular emphasis on war related recollections in the cinema trade.
Original tape recordings donated to IWM.
Audio recording not accessioned as held at Imperial War Museum. Transcription: Hard copy only.
Another entry mentions an interview with an Alexander Hamill which I think is probably an interview with Charles Hamill. It's too much of a coincidence. The details are as follows:
MI. 8/58 8 Nov 1983
Tape recording. Interview by Janet McBain with Alexander Hamill, former chocolate boy and spool boy with the Paragon in Cumberland St, Glasgow, and later projectionist with the Vogue, Rutherglen, and the Odeon, Hamilton. Interview concerns such topics as working conditions and former employers, Singletons and later Rank
Cassette
Side 2 only
Approx 45mins
Transcript and MP3
Transcription: Hard copy & e-version
Digitised recording available
Ref Date
Description
Similarly, in an interview conducted by Janet McBain, former director of Scottish Screen Archive,Interview with Charlie Hamill, 8 November 1983, 8/58, National Library of Scotland’s Moving Image Archive. Charlie Hamill, a projectionist from the Paragon cinema in the Gorbals in Glasgow, describes the audiences’ difficulties in comprehending the accents of English actors: ‘they had all these West End accents and people were sitting and they could make out the Americans but they couldnae make out the English accents and they were all shouting and throwing things at the screen, this actually happened.’
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