Yvonne Littlewood

[…] a week, and I used to have to take the bus and it left at 4.10, and to a child at that age it was an endless bus journey. And I went to May Hatton’s Academy in Hereford, and I took my dancing lessons there, and I did my exams at The Royal Academy, I went, soldiered through them. I think I must have[…]

Mike Bradsell

[…] I did a couple of films for the asphalt roads Association, just showing how they lay hot rolled asphalt and how important it is because it's the the best way of laying a smooth surface which will last longer than concrete or, or something like that. But I began to get a bit worried. Some some of my[…]

Interview

[…] I did a couple of films for the asphalt roads Association, just showing how they lay hot rolled asphalt and how important it is because it's the the best way of laying a smooth surface which will last longer than concrete or, or something like that. But I began to get a bit worried. Some some of my[…]

Peggy Gick

[…] he was having his breakfast to the hall or something, and they'd got seven seconds to do that. I thought, how the hell can I arrange this? I did the best I could and I said to [Charles Frend] "I'm sorry...this is a damned awkward shot for you but I couldn't do anything else." He said, "Oh, no probl[…]

Freddie Francis

[…]or is not telling the story right you may as well forget it. So that was one of the valuable lessons I learnt there.Alan Lawson: Every shot is not an Academy Award.Freddie Francis: No, sometimes, I have a wonderful camera operator called Gordon Hayman who has just been with me ever since French Lieu[…]

Peter de Normanville

[…] first film being greeted and I'd had lovely people like Basil saying, how nice was that? I was so thrilled it was the Lord Shiva dance. And then the academy decided to put it on. As with Do you remember when I've done the drops are being sued and lost? Case for GT she'd written about the the distri[…]

Wolfgang Suschitzky

[…]n it and a series of very good actors. That was one of the first films shot up north, had a very good story, and is still considered to be one of the best sort of thriller films made on locationSpeaker 1  26:23  and you didn't use any studio at all. No studio, no. And where was it supposed[…]

Wendy Toye

[…] about, I didn't realise until I looked out some of these things for you, I didn’t realise On the Twelfth Day of Christmas was nominated for the 28th Academy Award Presentation, 1956 in Hollywood. I didn’t know. Perhaps I knew once, but I’d forgotten and there it is being nominated as one of five sh[…]

Joan Kemp

[…] Shadwell: "to the new industry..." Joan Kemp-Welch: I got one award for services...[indecipherable]. Roy Fowler: For services rendered, we're back […]
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