Clyde Jeavons

[…]e going back all the way to the firstCapra films, Columbia’s first silent films and so on – and that has been one ofthe great triumphs in America.The Academy Film Archive was created to acquire and preserve all awardedfilms in America; the Library of Congress set up a register of important films. It[…]

Dicky Leeman

[…]allowed to direct, but it was back to Floor Manager the next day. [Break in recording]Rodney Giesler: You were talking about your days at the Compton Academy.Dicky Leeman: Yes. Fay Compton was a big actress... you know, she was also well known in Hollywood, big theatre star. And it was run principal[…]

Frances Cockburn

[…]had the chance of knocking the bin over, but I think I think it was you were kept in it was as well as charming as well. Just Just as you passed your best friends.Alright. Oh, yes. And I can remember the the the thing that they were absolutely facile things but when you're when you're very new to th[…]

Peter Proud

[…];introduced toall these little girls who made the silk stockings and I handed over myaward winning group of order forms to Gordon Reid who is the husband ofBeryl Rei[…]

Alan Lawson

[…]lly in those kind of films, not really, you'd just line them up and shoot them. Although the camera did his best it didn't really matter if it was an academy award or not. It was probably never seen, it was a form of fine I suppose. Then after leaving Stoll, I went to Ealing. That was a very differe[…]

Derek Threadgall

[…]SPEAKER: M7He was going to. He was going up to Colchester to a lecture by the late Dr. Roger Manville who was.SPEAKER: M5Chairman of the British Film Academy at the time.SPEAKER: M6And Lou said to me I can't go because I got a ticket. He said Would you like to go in my place. I said Yeah. Because I […]

John Shirley

[…]bout about an agent. Did you find the agent useful?John Shirley  27:29  Not in finding work if the people the number on all the kids in the academy have always asked the same question. I've never, I don't think I've ever had a job put on the plate by an agentAlan Lawson  27:42  t[…]

Jack Gold

[…]rds and he said,  if you’d have said in this film that she’d been a Communist, he said none of this would have happened and you’d have got on to awards and we could have got behind you and everything else, anyway, whatever, in my innocence I did nothing, you know, I’m … anyway, there was quite […]
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