[…]cky Ball (Co-Investigator, De Montfort University). (2015).BECTU History ProjectInterview no: 181Interviewee: Nancy ThomasInterviewer: Norman Swallow/Alan Lawson [NB: Identities not clear] Duration: 02:24:07The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Nancy Thomas, televisi[…]
[…]n't want to be reminded of that! The only good thing that came out of 'The Water Gipsies' was it made me a friend - and I still am a friend - of dear Alan Herbert. However, that was made - very unfortunately made - in an unfortunate, er... collaboration I had with Basil Dean. For some reason or othe[…]
[…]t that partly because of the excess profits tax. But at that period there was more feeling of experiment at Ealing than later on actually.SC: Perhaps Alan is right that the impetus of what is now know of the Ealing pictures, that has developed a kind of mythology, tails off.CC: I don’t know if it ta[…]
[…] with, and then, from then onwards, well, I think I did. I was doing some second unit work for for one or two other pictures. There's one with coward Dickinson. What? Secrets? No, not secret people.Unknown Speaker 12:02 I know, I know that the wartime one,Unknown Speaker 12:05 &nbs[…]
[…]s up to us, up to, not the representatives, I don’t like people being called, I don’t pay money to be led, I don’t, I don’t look upon George Elvin or Alan Sapper [ph 058] I respect them, I in fact I, I think the world of them. I thought the world of George and, but I never paid my subs to be led and[…]