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:[…]
[…] taught these people to thread up in the white light and then they had to do it in the dark.Yes.And ultimately you do so much of it that it’s a fact.Now you do it, you do it...Now I can tell you something about darkness. They kept me back during the war. I wasnever, I wasn’t on a reserved occup[…]
[…]e did come in to see me and shake hands and said, "Well you were a very hard man Mr Rockett but at least you were honest with us." I'm proud of that fact.Sidney Cole: Yes I suppose that's good, yes.Jack Rockett: But [laughs] a very difficult man to get on with.Sidney Cole: Can you remember what sort[…]
[…]out him, I suppose came under his influence to some extent. It was many, many years later that I first met him first met john Grierson in Africa, in fact.Stephen Peet 37:54 So you were working there now as an editor?Yes. And this wasin the late 30s. It was 3637, something like that. But […]
THE COPYRIGHT OF THIS RECORDING IS VESTED IN THE ACTT PROJECT. PETER PROUD INTERVIEWED BY SID COLE ON 18TH NOVEMBER 1987.SIDE ONE Peter Proud: Sid Cole My fam[…]
[…] and finallymoved over to Pinewood when Pinewood opened. We moved to Pinewood on thevery first day which is how I got there on the very first day in fact.AG: From the way you're describing this you weren't in any kind ofpermanent job. How were you employed, picture to picture?DB: Yes, picture to pic[…]
[…]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 […]
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1 BEHP 0739 T Phil Windeatt Transcript. Transcribed by Kelly Robinson. DATE OF INTERVIEW: 7 Ma y 2010 at The […]
