[…]h tapestry. In a sense we're onto film because you're now at Movietone. Where were Movietone based?Reg Sutton: In Soho Square. 22, right opposite the ACT. And of course I had to join the ACT which in those days wasn't any problem because they wanted members. After a time, I, a couple of years I beca[…]
Alan Lawson, CameramanCopyright ACTT History ProjectSeptember 1987 Interviewer, Arthur Graham  Arthur Graham: Where and when were you born?Alan Lawson: I was born in Gidea Park, a suburb of Romford in July 1912, we moved to London 3 years later.Arthur Graham: Whereabouts?Alan Lawson: […]
[…] be ample car parking space available for the new targeted core market (in America this had been families with their own transport) they hoped to attract. Aware of this impending threat to the Odeon business model, Tony Ramsden was sent, prior to the main invasion, on a three-week jaunt through vari[…]
Interviewed by Peter Musgrave at the home of John Aldred in Marbella on the Costa Del Sol Copyright ACTT 1989SIDE 1, TAPE 1Peter Musgrave: Where and when were you born?John Aldred: I was born at Doncaster in 1921, son of dental surgeon but I had no ambition about following in my father's chosen prof[…]
[…] to the - it was Paddy Leach[?] I think, I can't remember...Alan Lawson: That's right, yes.David Robson: I said to Paddy, "We want to be organised by ACT." So he said, "Well, that's going to be difficult." I said, "Well why?" He said, "Because there are three unions here. Apart from a few people in […]
[…]an Take It' was during the Battle of Britain, The Blitz. Not the Battle of Britain, The Blitz.Pat Jackson: The Blitz, the beginning of The Blitz. In fact...John Legard: After the Battle of Britain.Pat Jackson: ...I remember, the first real attack, we were at Bennett Park Road and it was the daylight[…]
[…]war was declared.AndMargaret Thompson  12:56  Youve gone a bit . Because you hadn't met you haven't said how you came to be.have joined the ACT.Frances Cockburn  13:04  Oh, well. This was a Cleveland Hall. Yes. And Mickey Jay was the chief projectionist. And he is a great buddy o[…]
[…]is was how they were. They were completely outrageous. Some of the things they used to do, I mean, Jimmy Kimmel used to dress up as Gandhi. He had an act. And we were staying at Liverpool, I think it was in the Adelphi, and they were kidding him on, and they said, Goon Jimmy, do your act on. Do your[…]
[…] her something worthwhile.[40:58]What was the thing with Batchelor and, and joining his firm?Oh that?When did that happen?Yes, yes he got me into the ACT.What, when was this roughly?In, in, [Pause] well I, we were just halfway through making Thunder Rock I would say, and Bert and I frequen[…]
[…]nce, and goes up to the Madonna, which was Diana Manners, pulls the baby Jesus away from the Madonna, throws it away and that is the end of the first act. The second act is the nun, dreadful life she has, the orgies and things that go on, and she becomes the mistress of a prince, which was Glen Byam[…]
