[…] Mendleson : Did I...?Linda Wood : Go to the cinema as a child?Anthony Mendleson : Yes I did, very much so because I was brought up in a very remote part of South Wales, by my Aunt, because my Mother died. And there we had a silent film show every week in the village hall, so I saw a great number of[…]
[…]Interviewed by Margaret Thomson, and John Legard, 12th November 1991, File 224, side one.Margaret Thomson: Jean Anderson – can you tell us to start with, a little bit about your own background; your personal background, and how you came to be an actress, and did you have any other aspirations […]
[…] then leaving Russia. So my parents were with that wave of immigrants that left Russia during that period. The period finished in 1914 when the war started.Sidney Cole: You have some interesting things to say about your Grandfather - was it your Grandfather?Charles Cooper: Yes my Grandfather. It was[…]
[…], I would be following my inclinations and, of course, I had been quite an enthusiastic schoolboy actor and things like that. I was interested in the artistic side of things, perhaps, and I thought, "Well films sound like a marvellous idea." So that is my background...very little background! [Chuckl[…]
[…]iewee, Philip Leacock, interviewed by Stephen Peet. The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Tape 1, Side A. How I'll start really is right at the beginning and the business of when and where you were born, just to get going.Philip Leacock: I was actually born in London[…]
[…] white film, you very rarely checked your costume with the art director. When you were doing colour, that was a very […]
[…] I enjoyed the association with other people. I mean the art people that I knew well, the special effects people […]
[…] (1967), and In Which We Serve (1942). Colleagues mentioned include Art Director Carmen Dillon and NATKE officials Tom O’Brien and Frank […]
[…]d the notion that I might get involved in movies, and in fact, I went in the direction of engineering. I studied mechanical engineering, but I had a part time job at a motorcycle shop in New Zealand in Wellington, and ended up working there and enjoying it a lot, and it became a full time job, and i[…]
