[…] in 1950 he set up Contemporary Films, distributing political and art house films, initially in conjunction with George Hoellering at […]
[…]re you born into? Were they anything to do with the business? Or …NEVILLE WORTMAN: Well, I have been looking into this since this started and I was surprised to see that my grandfather on my father’s side was trained as a scene painter. He was a scene painter and also a portr[…]
[…]ig house. We the house that they bought was a was a ruin, and my mother basically did it up from scratch. She was very talented interior designer and artist, and that's what she she did, but she didn't have she had a lot of problems as well. She was a manic depressive, as it was defined in those tim[…]
[…]y would have loved to work in the theatre but knew nothing about it. Sort of thought that perhaps working for The BBC would be a wonderful place to start because there would be programmes going on and also a weekly pay cheque or, you know, pay packet in this. So I applied to The BBC and had an inter[…]
[…]azine, 'Betty's Paper'. Who was it for - children really?Jill Craigie: No, it was for silly young women, like me. Teenage women. 'Betty's Paper' was part of a great combine. During the second world war...the previous period was the great peace movement and there were all the anti-war plays, and my m[…]
Dave Robson 0:00 racter The subject is Richard Marden, documentary and Feature Film Editor. He has also worked in sound department interviewed by John Legard, the date is 17 to January 1996. This is side one, and it's file number 361.Alan Legard 0:29 Dick. Now, perhaps you co[…]
Alan Lawson 0:00 The copyright of this recording is vested in the actt history project.Charlotte Jennings, artist, daughter of Humphrey Jennings, the documentary film director, poet, and artist,recorded on the 17th of December 1990. side one interview, Alan Lawson Well was was not, you k[…]
[…]erviewers: Alan Lawson (AL), Roy Fowler (RF)Date 01/04/1987 and 14/08/19875 Tapes(The second interviews covers similar ground as the first – at the start of the second AL mentions technical issues with the first interview)01/04/1987Side 100:00:00 – 00:10:00 Introductions; born in Marylebone, London,[…]
[…]stone: Wimbledon Park.Fowler/Lawson: How come - oh you moved across, did you? (Yes.) Now, did you receive any special training before you started work?Bill Girdlestone: No, I started work in the' office of the Automobile Association in St James's Street as an office boy.Fowler/Lawson:[…]
[…] everybody took a hand, Ossie Morris took a hand, the art director took a hand, the assistant directors took a hand. […]