[…] have been on it. But it was interesting and somebody who knows I am interested in those sorts of things gave it to me only last week as a matter of fact. A fellow who I know, he belongs to the Hammer Film Society of which I am an honorary member, having worked for so long with Hammer films, and he […]
[…]d with Kay mondo. And that was wild a new experience for me. Working with Kay was quite a new experience. I got on very well with her as a matter of fact. And Rob, of course, was onAlan Lawson  5:28  it to rod was that Rob was producing presumably,Paddy Carey  5:31  he was I thin[…]
[…]iversity the most – and it was, I mean the Open University was one of the great institutions of the century really in education, after the ’44 Butler Act. And at that time I was there, not quite at the beginning, but about a couple of years in.You were at Alexandra Palace then?I then went up to Alex[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 110  [Copyright BECTU]Maurice Elvey (film director) 11/11/1887 – 28/8/1967 by admin — last modified Jul 28, 2008 04:49 PMTranscription Date: [? Pilot Project]  -  Interview Date: 1963-10-01  -  Interviewer: Ralph Bond[…]
Len Lawrence Laboratories, Technician, Editor (Stoll, Humphries, Technicolor)BECTU No.81Interviewers Alf Cooper (AC) & Alan Lawson (AL)Date: 12/04/1989 Side 100:00:00 – 00:03:58 Introduction; early life; schooling; 11 plus exams; first job in a fruit shop; working in an ironmongers.00:[…]
[…]hat very much. YouUnknown Speaker  17:40  mentioned Ned League. She was the five, oh, sure. VerySpeaker 2  17:43  promising young act. Yes, yes. Unfortunately, yes, I know that Ned is losing his sight now too. You see, if you lose your limb, you're not your limbs. But if you're n[…]
[…], I can remember a quiet park now gone, and marvelous sunsets. I had a very happy childhood, blighted by the fact my mother was a mild, hard pichonry act. My father was an architect. My he dearly loved my mother and was a marvelous father. My schooling, to put it mildly, was poor. After attending a […]
[…]resent job. I saw Rotha who said you're exactly the sort of person we want and wonderful. I found he was offering £1 a week under the ACT minimum in fact. I'm sure the minimum was £3 and he was offering me about £2. He hadn't got a job in any case. And quite suddenly, Geoffrey Bell, we'd both been o[…]
[…]lestone: No, during the war years I was at Shepherd’s Bush. I didn't go to Denham till 1950 and after three or four years they made me Chief Contact.Tape 1, Side 2Fowler/Lawson: In those early days of Gaumont British at the Bush, what kind of pressures were on the cameramen, well, also on […]
